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Quite a while ago I made some changes to this https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arborsculpture page. Which were revert and then I was informed that wiktionary wasn't like wikipedia in that I can't just change the page but have to talk about it first? I don't know how I should go about suggesting/doing the changes that I believe should be on the page. Any help would be appreciated.

Blackash (talk)12:33, 30 April 2016

Can you show me where you were told that?

CodeCat13:01, 30 April 2016
 

It looks to me like it was the content of the edits that was too much like Wikipedia, not the way they were made. Wiktionary is focused on succinctly describing the way language is used, not on explaining the facts that language is used to explain. We don't use references to authoritative sources to verify that our definitions are correct, and if people use terms with meanings that don't match what authoritative sources say, we go with the usage, not the authoritative sources.

Chuck Entz (talk)18:04, 30 April 2016