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[edit]Adolf Uunona
[edit]Why was the page about Adolf Uunona deleted? Just curious. Also would I be ok to just revive the page myself? Cornishrom20 (talk) 11:19, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
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- Nothing strange going on at all, there was a "no consensus" AfD, the article was renamed, and then there was an AfD cloesed as delete. It has since been recreated repeatedly and speedily deleted as "Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion". See the logs here. DuncanHill (talk) 12:06, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
I need someone to find me a source cus i cant find any
[edit]i need sources on the civil parish abolishment of eastcotts cus im tryna update the cardington page cus it says the raf is in the "parish" of eastcotts 94.194.31.200 (talk) 18:01, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- [NB: Also asked, and answered, on the Help Desk. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.6.86.81 (talk) 18:21, 26 September 2024 (UTC)]
Free pentameter
[edit]When a poem is written in free pentameter, what exactly does that mean? Amisom (talk) 19:54, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- In English, that would mean five main stresses per line, but few constraints as to where the stresses fall within the line. Old English alliterative verse sometimes approximated towards free tetrameter, though with constraints on the initial consonants of stressed words... AnonMoos (talk) 22:06, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- Just to build on that a bit: the pentameter part refers to there being five stressed syllables in the line and the free part refers to the line(s) not having a particular rhythm to it. This would be in contrast to meters like iambic pentameter (i.e. the form now often identified with Shakespeare), which detail the exact pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Matt Deres (talk) 19:10, 1 October 2024 (UTC)