English Etymology sections without templates

Fragment of a discussion from User talk:Bequw
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I'm trying to get at multi-word entries and clearly separable entries such as the hyphenated ones. If spaces are easy to do and hyphens hard, then I can always use indirect evidence to close that modest data gap.

BTW, what are the best sources for our best baseline data on the total number of headers of each type in each language section? How often is that kind of thing updated? The baseline data is necessary for me to determine the frequency rates of the etymology-less or possibly etymology-deficient English entries.

BTW2, I have noticed fewer appearances of English missing-inflection-line entries showing up for cleanup. Yet I discover them routinely. Do we need a cleanup list for that?

BTW3, how hard is it to find English entries that use {{infl}} by PoS? I am regretting using infl instead of insisting on the creation of header-matching templates for all kinds of PoSes. Entries such as those in Category:English predicates almost always have {{infl}}. As I think on it now, it would have been nice to have a no-inflection switch on {{en-verb}} or a {{en-verb-noinflect}}.

Thoughts on any of this?

DCDuring TALK‎12:38, 2 October 2010
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