User talk:Gfarnab

Avestan descendants

New Persian comes from Old Persian, not Avestan. Please do not add any more Persian on the Avestan entries. —Aryaman ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 19:28, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

Now that I know you, Aryaman, I understand why the Persian section in the Wiktionary is so poor.

I'm not sure I understand. I don't edit any New Persian, nor do I speak it. में सिर्फ़ हिंदी लेख बनाता हूँ। You're adding a descendants sections to Avestan with New Persian. New Persian does take words from Avestan, but I suspect all the ones you've added are from Old Persian in actuality. If you speak Persian, why don't you make the Persian entries better rather than insulting others? —Aryaman ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 02:45, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

That you claim I insult others (whilst I at any point did such a thing) attests to your lack of reading comprehension and further proves my initial point.

"Now that I know you, Aryaman, I understand why the Persian section in the Wiktionary is so poor." Good job I guess, now that you've proved your point. —Aryaman ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 00:48, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

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Perhaps we got off on the wrong foot. Sorry for my unfriendliness. I've put the standard welcome message below so you know which templates to use and such (e.g. {{t}} is only used in translation tables):

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Again, welcome! —Aryaman ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 12:35, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

I appreciate your last message and look forward to being a valuable member of the community. मैं तुम्हारे लिए बहुल आशीषें भेजता हूँ! Gfarnab

आपकी बहुत धन्यवाद! यहां हिंदी (और फ़ारसी) बोलनेवाले की कमी है। —Aryaman ^{(मुझसे बात करो)} 17:28, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Making too many errors in Chinese entries

Please do not edit Chinese entries - many of the examples you added are completely ungrammatical. Wyang (talk) 10:01, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

@Wyang You are too sure for your own good, because the examples I use are extracted from recognized and long-standing sources. In any event, I have answered lengthily in the Beer Parlour so you are welcome to go back there and have a look. And have a nice day too! User:Gfarnab

Hello. You should make a basic user page first, stating languages you know, so that people know if you're relying on your own knowledge or using dictionaries or other sources. {{Babel}} is a popular template for this. As for Russian, it's now considered incorrect to transliterated образ (without a stress mark) as "óbraz" (with a stress mark), you should use stress marks and rely on automatic transliteration in most cases, e.g. о́браз (óbraz). User:Benwing2 is also quite active in Russian and can hopefully give you some guidance about the templates to use.--Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 12:58, 31 July 2017 (UTC)

@Atitarev Thank you for your message: I will pay attention to the way you transcribe things here and adapt to it. Re creating a user page with my language knowledge, I do not think is the most productive use of my time, for I rather keep bettering the Wiktionary than add badges to my page. And if users want to know whether I am "relying on your own knowledge or using dictionaries" they can google the example phrases and find out where they are from (in Russian they are never mine, but rather from ruscorpora.ru). — This unsigned comment was added by Gfarnab (talk • contribs) at 15:08, 31 July 2017 (UTC).

I fail to see how 邊防們許可過境邊界 is from any recognized or long-standing source; it's absolutely terrible. BTW, it's general courtesy to put a {{Babel}} on your userpage as a minimum, just as a way for other users to know where your linguistic abilities stand and be able check your edits accordingly, definitely not a waste of time. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 22:31, 31 July 2017 (UTC)