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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Conrad.Irwin 21:32, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Proper nouns in foreign languages

See بتشيلمو as an example of how these may be formatted. SemperBlotto 17:02, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

OK. I'm new here on Wiktionary and I found it quite interesting. I'll try to follow these steps. Thanks. --MisterWiki 17:05, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

boogle

The entry you created seems to have been a protologism and has been deleted. If you are sure that it is a real word, please provide evidence of this word being used in durably archived media (mainly printed books, and usenet groups) as required by our inclusion criteria. For a term to be included, it must be used by at least three different authors over more than a year, and the authors must be actually using the word, not just explaining its meaning or stating that it exists. If you can find any such quotations, please add them to the citations page. --EncycloPetey 01:56, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

I never knew the word but tried to make the definition more understandable. --MisterWiki 01:58, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Chamorro plurals

Please note that all Wiktionary entries must have an "inflection line" after the part of speech header. I will illustrate at mayutes. --EncycloPetey 23:14, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

OK. --MisterWiki 23:17, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Your entries are improving quite rapidly. A couple of other nitpicky things: There should be a dead space preceding all headers, except for the first language one. Also, there should be no spaces between the equal signs and title within a header. Finally, there is no need for a period at the end of a def unless it's a complete sentence. See the changes I've made to tinigua. Many thanks. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 23:37, 5 April 2010 (UTC)

Another common error: on epistemología, you've marked the word as coming from modern Greek instead of from Ancient Greek. I'll change the page to show you how we indicate this. --EncycloPetey 01:27, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Oh, and we transliterate Ancient Greek eta with "ē" (e with macron). Very minor, but worth noting. Thanks. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 02:06, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Translations

Good work. However for pichilemino you can just put Pichileminian! Then link back to pichilemino by putting it as a translations, not a related terms. Related tems should be in the same language.

More importantly, if we leave you messages here, it's not "criticisms" but rather help for you to become a good Wiktionary editor quicker. Don't give up! Mglovesfun (talk) 22:51, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

I know. :-) --MisterWiki 23:21, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Santa

The name Santa Cruz is not derived from the English word (deprecated template usage) Santa. It is a Spanish city name derived from santa and borrowed into English as a full name. The "Derived terms" section should only list words that come from that word, and not words that happen to contain similar sequences of letters. --EncycloPetey 23:08, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

OK. --Diego Grez 23:39, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

crypton

Since this word did not exist in Classical Latin, a Classical pronunciaiton should not be added. --EncycloPetey 04:08, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

I've reformatted the entry to current standards for Latin. --EncycloPetey 04:16, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

sanibona

Hello is not a proper noun, did you mean "interjection"? (and the formatting is very wrong) Conrad.Irwin 16:40, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

皮奇莱穆 & 披市勒亩

Thank you for your Mandarin contributions on Wiktionary. Unfortunately your formatting is not entirely up to standard. Moreover, they are Proper nouns not Nouns and both of these entries have traditional and simplified forms. Lastly, you forgot the important rs= field. Please note my changes and check out How to Create a Basic Chinese Entry for more information. You can also leave a message on my talk page at any time if you have any questions. Cheers. ---> Tooironic 21:59, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Diego Grez Bot

Careful: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Grease_pit&curid=286324&diff=9102987&oldid=9102741&rcid=9065074 Conrad.Irwin 17:46, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

I've reverted a number of similar mistakes. Conrad.Irwin 17:52, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

This edit too. The interwiki links were unnecessary, because the POV pushing page is a subdivision of WT:Vandalism in progress. The links added by the bot seemed appropriate for the latter page. The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 18:09, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

I've created the header page for that, it should be fixed now =) --Diego Grez 18:10, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

By the way, I am not at all conversant with bot settings, but could you set the bot to add links to newly created articles of sh.wikt, provided that it obtains the bot flag? The operator of the main interwiki bot (for main space) refuses based on ideological convictions. By newly created I mean in the last 1 month, because I am a steady contributor there, but there are not many more. I am simply tired of adding this fatiguing links manually. You do not have to acquiesce in this request, if it is too laborious to fulfil, The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 19:47, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Er, Bogorm, the technical issue with Interwicket was resolved months ago, and it was never about "ideological convictions". See User_talk:Robert_Ullmann/2009#Bot_question. --Yair rand (talk) 21:12, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

This is no solution. He has discontinued the removal of links, but has not enabled his bot to add links to sh.wikt . The entries which I created on sh.wikt (in November 2009) such as sh:výťah were linked to on ko.wikt and hu.wikt (in December 2009) by CarsracBot, but it has no bot flag here and the ones I created in May 2010, are still not linked to anywhere! Discontinuing the removal does not æqual enabling the addition and that is why I am trying to recruit some bot to do this (CarsracBot has not been adding links since the beginning of 2010, I do not know for what reason). The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 21:34, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I wasn't aware of any of that. My mistake. --Yair rand (talk) 22:15, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Did some more test edits, I have added many sh.w interwikis =) --Diego Grez 22:16, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Great :) Keep up the good work. The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 11:12, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

You've been approved. Happy botting. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 09:43, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! --Diego Grez 16:21, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Why this edit? On the one hand, Wiktionary is case-sensitive, on the other hand, the entries in other language editions of wikt must be entitled exactly the same way as here (with regard to this edit). The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 19:20, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

I'm having to undo nearly all the bot's edits. Consequently I'm blocking it until you can get the code locked down. Let me know when it is. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 00:34, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

O_O Sorry!!! I'm correcting the code right now! --Diego Grez 01:40, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

cagón

Hi. What sense of crapper does cagón refer to? --Rising Sun talk? contributions 23:46, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing. After reading crapper, it doesn't means that, most likely "an undesirable person". --Diego Grez 23:47, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

OK, can I recommend shithead como translation? --Rising Sun talk? contributions 23:49, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Aye. --Diego Grez 23:50, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Dropping benjamins

It's a verb...it's part of the conjugation "to drop Benjamins". Dropping is a gerund; which can be a noun or adjective, but not a noun. Purplebackpack89 ^{(Notes Taken) (Locker)} 00:25, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

OK. I have moved it to drop Benjamins. --Diego Grez 00:25, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

images

Please add images underneath the langauge header, and not between the part of speech header and the inflection line. --EncycloPetey 16:02, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

OK. Sure. --Diego Grez 16:04, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Also, please do not add nummbers of definitions to the image caption. The order of our definitions changes on occasion, and we have found that numbered images, translations, synonyms, etc. do not change numbers when this happens. It is better to write a caption that incorporates a portion of the definition, rather than using the definition's number. --EncycloPetey 16:06, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Sure. Thanks for your advice. --Diego Grez 16:07, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Unblocked

Sorry I missed your message. Yair posted something shortly after you did on a thread at the bottom of my talk page, and I didn't think to review my talk page's history. Bot is unblocked. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 02:03, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! :) --Diego Grez 02:07, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

vuvuzela

Are you sure that the IPA is right? My understanding was that Spanish had neither /v/ nor /z/ (and used /b/ and /s/~/θ/ where those letters are). —Internoob (Disc•Cont) 22:37, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

It is pronounced the same way, and IPA is international, isn't it? :) Diego Grez 22:38, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

It's international in that one letter in the IPA represents (roughly) the same sound in one language as in another language, but the sounds themselves can vary across languages. So while in English we say /vuːvuːˈzɛlə/, in French it's /vuvuzɛla/ and in other languages it's robably different. —Internoob (Disc•Cont) 22:47, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

So, the Spanish pronounce it with a French pronunciation? Spanish doesn't have /v/ as a phoneme in any native words. --EncycloPetey 22:48, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

No, the French pronunciation and the listed Spanish pronunciation are different. French usually puts the stress at the end of a word ([vuvuzɛˈla], and it would be vuvuzelá in normal Spanish orthography), but stress is not phonemic so this is not indicated usually. The listed Spanish pronunciation looks like it was taken from the Portuguese. —Internoob (Disc•Cont) 23:06, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Changed the IPA according to w:Wikipedia:IPA for Spanish to /bubuzela/. Diego Grez 01:03, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Mapudungun

Hi! I see you speak or write some mapudungun, there are not many on wiktionary with that knowledge! I worked some on adding mapudungun words last year and are adding some now again, I would be grateful if you could help me with the language since I am not very good at it -Edelstam 11:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

OK! I'm not very good either, but I think we can help each other, of course! :-) Diego Grez 16:35, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Zamboanga Chavacano‎

This word is not a palindrome. Why have you added the category English palindromes? Nadando 01:30, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Oops. Please excuse me. Diego Grez 01:35, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Selena and Paulette

It's good to see somebody interested in names, but please, where did you find the translations for Selena and Paulette? I hope you're not blindly copying the Wikipedia, because that's the way mistakes get multiplied. Who knows if the Amharic forms are correct? It's true I sometimes add Greenlandic or Hawaiian names, but I always add good references. Also, are you sure that the transliterations refer to the English name Selena and not the Spanish name, like that of the Mexican born singer? Is Paulette really a name borne by Spanish speakers - could you add a special Spanish pronunciation? Please see Wiktionary:About given names and surnames. Actually I'd like to remove all the "translations" of Selena that are identical with the original form, unless you have a reliable source. "Old English", when the name was first recorded in the 17th century... It might be better to list cognates under Selene and Celine.

I hope I don't sound like a killjoy. Spanish given names, for example, would be very welcome, also all those pet forms that only a native speaker can understand. I'll try to create the missing categories for transliterated given names soon. --Makaokalani 12:25, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

You catched me! :-) I took the "translations" on the Wikipedia article for Selena, and used a Python transliterator to Latin to check if they were right. And yeah, will add the Spanish pronunciation for Paulette. --Diego Grez 19:00, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Wiktionary:Deletion requests#Wikiquote

Hello. Since you participated in the deletion discussion above, I thought I might like to hear some input from you regarding this one. Thanks. TeleComNasSprVen 12:31, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Bye

Farewell. --Daniel. 03:22, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

Poll on formatting of etymologies

I would like to know your preference as regards the use of "<" vs "from" in the formatting of etymologies in Wiktionary, whatever that preference is. Even explicit statement of indifference would be nice. You can state your preference in the currently running poll: WT:BP#Poll: Etymology and the use of less-than symbol. I am sending you this notification, as you took part on some of the recent votes, so chances are you could be interested in the poll. The poll benefits from having as many participants as possible, to be as representative as possible. Feel free to ignore this notification. --Dan Polansky 10:47, 14 February 2011 (UTC)