User talk:Gabeedman

Revert

I have reverted this edit, since it is unclear why you chose to delete those derived terms. A simple search of Google books turns up more than 100 uses of undivining. --EncycloPetey 08:04, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't understand why. 100 Results in Google, many of which are redundant instances, do not validate the legitimacy or substantiveness of a given word. It's sheer preposterousness.

Not in Google, in Google Books, a search of published printed books that have been uploaded into Google's database. That's at least one hundred print the use the term. Please see WT:CFI (criteria for inclusion), which states (amon other things) that English terms with a minimum of three independent citations in durably archived media (such as printed, published books) merit inclusion as an entry. --EncycloPetey 16:53, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Page format

Note some of the changes I made to the page format for combinative. These are standard for Wiktionary format: (1) Synonyms, Antonyms, Related terms, and the link are indented under the part of speech section, (2) Headers with more than one word (like Relative terms) have only the initial letter capitalized, (3) Synonyms and Antonyms must be paired with a particular definition. I have done this for the Synonyms to show you how this looks, but have not done the Antonyms. --EncycloPetey 04:34, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Reminder: Synonyms and Antonyms are always ina single row separated by commas, even if the page currently has only one definition. Our general guide for page layout is WT:ELE, but if it seems rather daunting, you may refer to listen and parrot as examples demonstrating proper format. --EncycloPetey 03:39, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes, the basic order and structure for entries does not change. There are some oddball exceptions, but you shouldn't have to worry about them. (words with more than one etymology, or words where the pronunciation affects the meaning, like predicate) --EncycloPetey 03:51, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

sorrowfulness

May I ask why you reverted Interwicket's edit? We want to have interwikis. I have reverted your edit. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 05:26, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

What exactly is an interwiki? Also, why am I not surprised that a user named 'Interwicket' is daringly adding interwikis to each and every entry imaginable? Thanks in advance. --Gabeedman 05:33, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

An interwiki is a link to the entry for the same word on a different language wiktionary. Interwicket is a bot run by Robert Ullmann. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 05:37, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

So you created sorrowfulness, and Interwicket added the link to the corresponding entry in the Vietnamese wiktionary: vi:sorrowfulness. Robert Ullmann 12:14, 1 August 2008 (UTC)