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If a category is clearly factually wrong and pushing a nonsensical POV like the Catalan separatist delusions and persecution complex, then nominating it for deletion is not disruptive. Pretty much all Afd are trying to prove a point that the article in question violates content policies, although some users believe that vanity articles should be deleted even when there is no rule against those. StellarHalo (talk) 17:21, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
That is not the meaning of "to prove a point" as the expression is commonly understood. See further Wikipedia:Wikilawyering. --Lambiam 17:38, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
On second thought, I might instead start a discussion on Village pump with all that I wrote above in "Are all white people racist?" along with how the article on White pride is different from articles on other forms of pride of identities a human is accidentally born into: Asian pride, Black pride, and LGBT pride. I will also include discussion on It's okay to be white. StellarHalo (talk) 00:47, 13 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
As torts wouldn't amount to crime in a strict sense, what is exactly the violation aspect in tort from a crime? as in the case of crime, the violation aspect would be the law being violated, laid down by authorities of state in statutes/Acts. Grotesquetruth (talk) 12:19, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Just wondering… can anyone recommend some basic legal textbooks that would answer most of Grotesquetruth’s questions? This is supposed to be a reference desk, after all. Blueboar (talk) 12:31, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I cannot find any meaning in what is exactly the violation aspect in tort from a crime. To me, it is word-salad. ColinFine (talk) 15:27, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I understand it to mean "what actions distinguish a tort from a crime", which could be clarified considerably by reading tort. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 15:42, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Everyone is required to exercise a reasonable care for the well-being and property of others. If my neighbour, carelessly backing up their car, flattens the lovingly grown petunias in my garden, they violated my right to growing and enjoying unflattened petunias. There is no law codifying this petunia-enjoyment right; it is an implied right. In legal terms, this wrongful act, if unintentional, can be construed as a breach of duty of care. --Lambiam 17:31, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It's a torty job, but someone's gotta do it. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:10, 13 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
At the risk of being obvious, see Tort. DOR (HK) (talk) 19:25, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Identical italicized Latin and Russian letters[edit]
From a historical point of view, why two italicized Latin letters u and m look identical to the different Russian ones - и and т? 212.180.235.46 (talk) 22:30, 11 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
They don't on the typeface on my computer. But "u" and "m" are lower case script forms of И and T respectively. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 00:08, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The Cyrillic alphabet and the Latin alphabet both derive from the Greek alphabet, and so coincidentally common letter forms are not unexpected. Beyond that commonality, I don't know that there is any reason beyond "coincidence". It is important to note that different languages often use analogous glyphs for very different sounds. Consider the often-confused lower case nu vs. the Latin "v", the capital eta and the capital "H", many of the letters in the Cherokee syllabary look like Latin letters, because the forms of the letters only and not the sounds were adopted from the Latin script. AFAIK, the case of Russian is convergent evolution however, the Cyrillic script letters developed independently and arrived at forms similar to the Latin script letters purely coincidentally. --Jayron32 11:42, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The cursive form of the Т in RussianThe italic form т of the lower case of the Cyrillic letter Т derives from the cursive form, which in turn is a sized-down variant of the capital letter in cursive form. I suppose the serifs at the two ends of the roof of the Т have been elongated to strokes extending to the base line, although I am not sure that this reflects the historical genesis, nor do I know a reason for this elongation. --Lambiam 12:38, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Cursive forms are designed to be connected writing, by design. The conventions on how to connect letters vary by writing system, so the fact that Russian Cyrillic cursive links up its letters in a particular way that differs from the common ways that Latin alphabet cursives do can be true in an unremarkable way. That one of those ways makes the Cyrillic Te (Cyrillic) glyph look like a latin "m" glyph is understandable if you connect your cursive through the bar of the T shape rather than through the vertical riser of the T shape as most Latin alphabet cursives do. To me, at least, the explanation of how drawing a cursive "T" by connecting via the cross bar looks to be how you get the "m" shape. --Jayron32 14:56, 12 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
