Template talk:User tah

Template:User tah and Template:User tah-1
"tah" is the three-letter code for Tahitian, which we prefer to use the two-letter code for. But it looks like User:Vishvas vasuki meant a different language entirely. Can anyone work out what language the user meant, correct the user's page and delete these misnamed templates? - -sche (discuss) 00:09, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The user in question made 14 edits over a two-day period in 2009. That's just not enough to make me care enough to find the real identity of the language (maybe (s)he was aiming for Tulu?). Delete. --Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 02:14, 18 June 2012 (UTC)


 * The language in question is Hebbar Tamil, a dialect of Tamil with heavy Kannada influence, which is written in the Kannada script. You'll notice a section "On the internet" at the end of the Wikipedia reference, which specifically- but pointlessly- mentions WT:Babel. This was added by the same user who wrote these templates, the only use of which is in his Babel box, and on the WT:Babel page. It looks like he made up the "ISO" code himself, and is the only one to have ever used it. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:16, 18 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Aha, thanks for the detective work! I've removed the link from Wikipedia and deleted the templates. It is possible to create a code for Hebbar Tamil, if desired, but it needs to be of the form dra-xxx (dra being the ISO 639-5 family code, and the last three letters being something distinctive, like hbt, htm or htl). The text, if anyone wants to recreate the pages with proper names, was: for User tah, "ಹೆಬ್ಬಾರ್ ತಮಿಳ್ ಇನ್ದ ಉಪಯೋಜಕರ್ಡೆ ಮಾತೃಭಾಷೆ." For User tah-1, "ಇನ್ದ ಉಪಯೋಜಕನ್ಕ ಕೊಞ್ಚು ಹೆಬ್ಬಾರ್ ತಮಿಳ್ ತೆರಞ್ಜಿಕ್ಕರ್ನ." - -sche (discuss) 03:47, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Oddly enough, the appearance of the user page remains the same, apparently due to transclusion. I'm sure they're in for a surprise if they ever edit the page, though. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:03, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Nope, it's due to your browser (the old display was kept in your cache, I suppose). I see the non-template redlink. Thanks, Chuck! I'll fix 'pedia. Never mind, nothing to fix... --Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 05:05, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
 * No, Chuck is right; the caching was server-side, in some form or another. After seeing his comment, I fixed it (i.e., broke it) by visiting http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Vishvas_vasuki?action=purge to purge the cached version of the page. —Ruakh TALK 01:53, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see. My mistake, sorry. --Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 03:56, 20 June 2012 (UTC)