User talk:TeleComNasSprVen/archives/2010

I noticed this edit, where you restored the definition of Wiktionary. I can understand why you want to do that, but I am reverting it, so I wanted to explain why. You may not have noticed Talk:Wiktionary#RFV discussion. The word failed our verification process, because it does not meet the criteria at Wiktionary:CFI#Names. It should not be re-added without citations that purport to show that it now does pass the criteria. It isn't Wiktionary's policy to treat self-referential terms any differently than other words when applying the criteria for inclusion in the general dictionary area. Let me know if you still have questions. Also, since you haven't yet been properly welcomed:

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Again, welcome! Dominic·t 23:50, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Template:adj

I think Bequw removed the {{rfd}} tag because he assumed you were requesting deletion based on a misunderstanding of the template. ISO code templates are never used directly inside pages, but must be available to convert codes into names. This is used by all templates; it would be impossible to have a single Adioukrou entry or category without this template. --Yair rand (talk) 08:14, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Can you please give me an example of how the template is used? I'm afraid that, it seems in this matter, I have ignorantly little in the way of templates except that they should have transclusions. TeleComNasSprVen 11:49, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

If we delete the template {{adj}}, we essentially exclude Adioukrou from Wiktionary, as it would be almost impossible to use it in either an entry or a translation table. So that violates WT:CFI line 1 "all words in all languages". No harm in asking the question, though. Thanks. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:09, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Signature

Hello there, I for one would very much appreciate if you could remove ":|" and all the colors and font faces from your signature. They make the signature too conspicuous in the running text. I know that such colorful and typographically overdone signatures are not wholly uncommon in Wikipedia; in Wiktionary we have been lucky so far to do without them. --Dan Polansky 15:47, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Using the default signature seems perfectly fine to me; I am using a default signature. Some users are using a modified signature, and it looks okay. There are no firm rules for signatures in Wiktionary. But using several colors, modification of font face, and additional diacritic characters in a signature seems like an anti-pattern for typography, a model for how not to do things.

If you want to prevent a redlink in your signature, the most obvious thing to do is to add {{Babel}} to your user page, like {{Babel|en-N}} or whatever fits. Then we will know what languages you speak, and the redlink will no longer be there in your signature.

Having a custom signature different from your user name does not remove the redlink from your user name in a page history, like in this page history, so placing some text to your user page is recommended anyway. --Dan Polansky 07:24, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Redirects

See WT:REDIR, we don't use them the way they are used on Wikipedia. It's a pretty common mistake. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:02, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks.

Grin. I hadn't thought of that. — lexicógrafo | háblame — 23:31, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

No problem. TeleComNasSprVen 09:25, 5 October 2010 (UTC)

Edit summaries

Please either leave an edit summary empty, or state in the edit summary what you are doing. This edit has the summary "f", of which I have no idea what it is supposed to mean.

What was this edit in Wiktionary:Votes about? --Dan Polansky 08:10, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Usually I mean "fixed" but if you prefer a blank edit summary I will do so accordingly. I thought the vote hasn't ended yet (you can take a look at the discussion page) and so I tried to transclude it onto the main page again. TeleComNasSprVen 09:55, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Removing synonyms from entries is not fixing, by my lights.

The vote Wiktionary:Votes/2010-02/Accepting the results of the Wiktionary logo vote says "Vote ends: 23:59, 29 April 2010 (UTC)". The last post to the discussion page of the vote is from 6 May 2010, so I don't know what you mean by "you can take a look at the discussion page". --Dan Polansky 11:31, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

temp

The Wiktionary equivalent of {{tl}} is {{temp}}. This is because {{tl}} is for Tagalog. Mglovesfun (talk) 09:40, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind when writing about further templates. TeleComNasSprVen 19:40, 13 October 2010 (UTC)

RFD and RFV

What about you first make some substantive contribution, and only then start voting in RFD, and sending terms to RFV? Some of your recent nominations in RFD and RFV are pretty off the mark. Given that your third edit in Wiktionary was on 20 September 2010 and you have 61 edits in the main namespace, you may want to observe the RFD and RFV processes a bit, to find out more about the sorts of arguments and nominations that are accepted. --Dan Polansky 06:41, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Russian entries

We wouldn't normally consider a Russian word with a Latin-letter a and a Cyrillic-letter а different entries. This is a Unicode difference, not a spelling difference. The search mechanism is designed to handle this, so creating such entries merely stops the search engine doing its job. Other wise, why not create аpple as a common misspelling of apple when people using a Cyrillic keyboard mistype it? Mglovesfun (talk) 00:09, 7 November 2010 (UTC)