Templating forms between protolanguages

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Templating forms between protolanguages

I've been meaning to ask: is there any particular reason you've been wrapping intermediate phonological forms in etymologies in {{m}}, as e.g. here? Things like these are after all not quite from whatever language is under discussion, but from an older stage. (The "early Proto-Germanic" and "early Proto-Finnic" forms also could be called "late PIE" and "late western PU" just as well.)

As long as we're not linking them to anything, what's exactly the benefit to this encoding? Machine-readability, arguably sometimes, but conflating different stages of development might also be detrimental there, depending on what one tries to machine-read.

Tropylium (talk)01:52, 16 November 2015

It's still better than having it tagged as English, isn't it? Also, {{m}} doesn't produce the same output as '', it's not just tagging the language that matters, there's also taggin mentions.

CodeCat01:55, 16 November 2015

Wait, are you saying that running text on Wiktionary is tagged as English by default? That seems like a bad idea.

Tropylium (talk)02:33, 16 November 2015

Yes, it is.

CodeCat02:39, 16 November 2015

I'm curious, what's the difference in effect between using {{m|[LANG]||[TERM]}} versus using {{lang|[LANG]|[TERM]}}? I've been using {{lang}} when I wish to specify the language without creating a link, but I'm happy to change if {{m}} is better somehow.

‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig18:18, 16 November 2015