User talk:Terry Dwyer
Did you look at your edit [1]? You moved the interwiki links into the translation table, which is defintely wrong, added comments to the alternative forms (which is incorrect), added spelling information under the Usage notes (which is incorrect), and added a reference that was not cited in the entry. --EncycloPetey (talk) 06:02, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
- Unlike Wikipedia, we don't use "References" to support a definition. Instead, we use quotations that provide direct evidence of the use of a word. Since there is already a quotation, with full citation information, nothing else is needed.
- Also, please add new talk page comments to the bottom of a talk page, and not to the top. That is where they are usually placed and where people will expect to find them. --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:20, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
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physiologic dead spaces[edit]
Yeah, the existence of plurals can be surprising. IIRC, the famous Fowler (of Modern English Usage) claimed that (deprecated template usage) protagonist had no plural in English, because no work could have more than one protagonist — apparently ignoring valid constructions like "the different protagonists of these two novels". Equinox ◑ 23:05, 11 June 2012 (UTC)