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Template-protected edit request on 9 May 2025: Proposal to use Template:Lang with certain designation names

Latest comment: 3 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

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Description of suggested change: Hello. Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting#Non-English terms, I believe it would be appropriate to make use of Template:Lang with non-English designation titles, namely the national designations of France, the Netherlands, and Romania, and the provincial designation for Quebec.

Diff: Monument historique → Monument historique; Rijksmonument → Rijksmonument; Monument istoric → Monument istoric; Patrimoine culturel du Québec → Patrimoine culturel du Québec

Let me know what you think. Thanks! Rockhead126 (talk) 22:02, 9 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Rockhead126: Makes sense to me!   Done. Thanks for your contribution. Est. 2021 (talk · contribs) 03:45, 11 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Edit request 17 July 2025

Latest comment: 26 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion

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Propose adding National Cultural Heritage of Peru. Here is the official national inventory of Peru’s cultural assets (4 888 entries), maintained by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism, available in PDF and CSV.

Code to be added:

To Template:Designation/text (add below the last entry):

|NATIONAL CULTURAL HERITAGE OF PERU          = [[Cultural Heritage of Peru]]

To Template:Designation/colour (add below the last entry):

|NATIONAL CULTURAL HERITAGE OF PERU          = #FFE978

To Template:Designation/colour2 (add below the last entry):

|NATIONAL CULTURAL HERITAGE OF PERU          = #CC3333

Once these are in place, please tag me and I will update Template:Designation/Supported designations accordingly. JustEMV (talk) 00:04, 17 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

@JustEMV:   Done * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 04:36, 2 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Template-protected edit request on 26 July 2025

Latest comment: 1 month ago1 comment1 person in discussion

To the administrator: Please add the codes:

In Template:Designation/text:

|SOUTH AFRICAN HERITAGE RESOURCES AGENCY|SAHRA                        = National heritage sites

In Template:Designation/colour:

|SAHRA|SOUTH AFRICAN HERITAGE RESOURCES AGENCY                         = #FFC0CB

In Template:Designation/colour2:

|SAHRA|SOUTH AFRICAN HERITAGE RESOURCES AGENCY                         = #DC4333

Axxter99 (talk) Axxter99 (talk) 09:20, 26 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Edit request 2 August 2025: Additional callnames for 'National Cultural Heritage of Peru' designation

Latest comment: 25 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion

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Thank you again to @Pppery: for implementing the original request!

As a follow-up, I realized I forgot to include additional callnames. Could the following aliases please be added to improve consistency and usability?

• To Template:Designation/text:

|NATIONAL CULTURAL HERITAGE OF PERU|CULTURAL HERITAGE OF PERU|PCN|PERU = [[Cultural Heritage of Peru]]

• To Template:Designation/colour:

|NATIONAL CULTURAL HERITAGE OF PERU|CULTURAL HERITAGE OF PERU|PCN|PERU = #FFE978

• To Template:Designation/colour2:

|NATIONAL CULTURAL HERITAGE OF PERU|CULTURAL HERITAGE OF PERU|PCN|PERU = #CC3333

Thanks in advance to any editor who can assist! JustEMV (talk) 15:05, 2 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

  Done * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 16:14, 2 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Template-protected edit request on 18 August 2025

Latest comment: 8 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion

This edit request to Template:Designation/text has been answered. Set the |answered= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

Add this to Designation/text

|ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROTECTED MONUMENT OF SRI LANKA|APMSL = [[Archaeological Protected Monuments in Sri Lanka|Archaeological Protected Monument of Sri Lanka]]

★ Ttheek ⏵ 09:04, 18 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

This has been done. GauchoDude (talk) 12:35, 19 August 2025 (UTC)Reply