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I do insist that writing "Latin" instead of "Latin script" or "Latin spelling" creates confusion on pages lik https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Appendix:Proto-Slavic/-i%C5%A5%D1%8C, even if it be only with me. It would be perfectly fine with me to write "Cyrillic script" or "Cyrillic spelling" instead of just "Cyrillic". Compare https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%98%E0%A4%B0#Hindi, where "Urdu spelling" is used rather than "Urdu".

Another option might be to use the word "Roman" instead of "Latin", as in the Serbo-Croatian translation in the translations list of "human abode" on https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/house#English. But then we might have to invent find or invent alternative names for other scripts, for in that same translations list, the Aramaic translations are confusingly presented behind words that may indicate languages, namely Syriac and Hebrew.

The omission of indicators is the more confusing since the script names and language names are presented in similar ways in the lists at e.g. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/house#English (e.g. Syriac and Hebrew vs. Lower Sorbian and Upper Sorbian) and https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Appendix:Proto-Slavic/-i%C5%A5%D1%8C (e.g. Cyrillic and Latin vs. Lower Sorbian and Upper Sorbian).

But I am not knowledgeable enough to create automatized ways of doing this. Please help!

Redav (talk)21:30, 14 July 2014

There is no simple automatic way to do this, unfortunately. The only way is to fix them all manually...

CodeCat22:14, 14 July 2014

Hi CodeCat, I brought the subject to the attention of info-en@wiktionary.org just an hour ago, if at all that is a proper way. There also seem to be more knowledgeable people behind Wiktionary, but the message and communication system itself of Wiktionary deems rather intricate to me. One may write on someone's Talk page, messages do sometimes come through email, message pop up after clicking a "Thanks"-button or similar. I know I got lost there. So, yes, manually would be my way. It reminds me of all those monks copying book after book by hand in medieval monasteries. I will not, however, change all entries one after another. I may proceed on a "when encountered" basis.

Redav (talk)22:28, 14 July 2014

I am the one reading your email message at the moment, but I think local talk pages are a better place now you understand how the system works. At the helpdesk we mainly help newbies to find their way at the Wiki.

Jcb (talk)23:28, 14 July 2014
 

After reading a little on your User page, I got impressed with what you seem to be able of. Would you be a person that could (invoke) help if I told you that a major struggle for me is the lack of easy and clear links on a particular page to * all * relevant templates and other structures that might apply to that page, and in such a way that clicking or opening them does not close the page that one is working on? Until now, I look around for an example on the page itself or on a similar page, and then copy it, hoping it will work properly without irritating anyone, like I managed to do with you ;-) on that languages-and-scripts issue. Btw your mother tongue is also mine, but I suppose we should write in English here, should we not?

Redav (talk)22:42, 14 July 2014
 

able of => capable of

Redav (talk)22:43, 14 July 2014