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Template:R:lt:VLE

I saw your blocked creation of this template in the abuse filter logs. As far as I know, there's no way an IP editor can create a page with a URL in it, and it looked like a useful template- so I went ahead and created it for you. I then modified it a little so it uses the entry name if no parameter is given, but the original edit is there if you decide to use that- you can just undo my edit. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:04, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Self-reminder

Use bor/inh, not der, when possible. 70.175.192.217 15:37, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Wiktionary talk:About Lithuanian

Just wanted to notify you that I've replied to you over there. Pinging IP users is not possible unfortunately so writing on your talk page is the only way to get your attention. Fytcha (talk) 00:39, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

sudėtis

Hi, I saw you flagged the inflection table at sudėtis as needing attention. I've had a go at fixing it, could you just double check it please (I only speak a few words of Lithuanian). Ačiū! BigDom 21:26, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

User:BigDom, the dative singular should be sùdėčiai. After that, it will be right. Dealing with these inflections is a little annoying, I know, sorry. 70.175.192.217 00:55, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

No, not annoying at all, it's better for them to be right. Anyway it should be properly fixed now. The problem was that it was using the masculine declension template when it should have been feminine. If you find any other words that need their declension fixing just ping me a message. Cheers, BigDom 06:25, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

Chess

Thank you for your recent chess term entries. I didn't even notice we were lacking so many. I take it you've also followed the World Championship.

What's more, I want to encourage you to make an account! Your obviously good edits wouldn't pop up in the recent changes queue anymore and, apart from that, seeing a nice name instead of an anonymous IP that might change at any time is just so much more pleasant. Fytcha (talk) 22:48, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. :) Yes, I did follow the World Championship. If you can think of any other English chess terms that need to be defined but aren't, feel free to leave them here and I'll do my best. Or you can do it on your own, obviously. 70.175.192.217 04:16, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

We have only few of the mating patterns that Wikipedia lists. If we choose to add them, creating a subcategory of (chess) would be appropriate in my opinion. Moreover, most derived terms in chess are red and maybe sifting through this list is also a possibility to find some new terms that are not yet on Wiktionary. Fytcha (talk) 19:43, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Could some of the mating patterns be SOP? E.g. "rook mate", "bishop and knight mate". Any of the others should be fine to include I suppose. I notice that some we should definitely have, like ladder mate, are missing.

What about openings, by the way? There are a lot of named openings, especially specific variations of certain theoretical openings. Category:en:Chess openings seems to include most of the low-hanging fruit, however. Perhaps we shouldn't go too crazy in that department since this is a dictionary and not a chess opening book. 70.175.192.217 20:26, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

I think the simple "<pieces> mate" terms are not suitable for an entry; the openings however are for the most part according to our CFI (well, maybe apart from things like "Queen's pawn opening", not sure). I won't be adding all the innumerable openings and their specific lines (those that have a name) (because, well, would somebody studying openings really come to Wiktionary for that?) but I think if somebody were to add them then they're here to stay (do they really hurt though?). Fytcha (talk) 20:36, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

I've created [[Category:en:Checkmate patterns]] now, but I'm unsure whether that was the right name for it. I think we can't include entries like fool's mate in it because that's not a pattern but rather a sequence / a full game. What do you think? I could rename it to "Checkmates" if needed but we could also just not include non-patterns in that category. Fytcha (talk) 22:15, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

I agree with what you just said: fool's mate would belong in a "checkmates" category, but not a "checkmate patterns" category. I'm fine with either categorization scheme. I think scholar's mate could be labelled a pattern, however, since there are various different ways in which it can occur. Then again, there are also 8 distinct two-move checkmates... but calling these "patterns" doesn't sit right. 70.175.192.217 22:19, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

You're right, scholar's mate could be considered a pattern for the reason you've highlighted. I'll leave this up for you to decide. Fytcha (talk) 22:29, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Btw, what do you think about this? I wanted to make the position legal but then again, it could be the case that it's only distracting without any real benefit. Fytcha (talk) 22:36, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Adding the king doesn't really hurt IMO, and it's far enough way that nobody would think the white king's position was relevant to the term. That said, I'm fine with it either way. 70.175.192.217 23:42, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Maybe double/doubling could have a chess-specific sense? Fytcha (talk) 22:35, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

You mean as in "to double" (v.) someone's pawns? I think the definition (cause two of the opponent's pawns to be in the same file) could be specific enough to justify another sense. 70.175.192.217 23:42, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

I was thinking more of "to double (on the X file)", an ellipsis of "to double one's rooks", but yeah, there's also the thing with pawns. Fytcha (talk) 00:02, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Oh, true! That should be included too. Also should be noted that sometimes people say double up (to form a rook battery). 70.175.192.217 00:07, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Foreign word of the day

nugrybauti: way to go. Thanks a lot for your hard work; it will be on the front page soon. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:12, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/Lithuanian

Hi, thank you firstly for your high-quality contributions for Lithuanian I'm reorganising the Wiktionary:Frequency lists and with your permission I would like to move the page you've created at Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/Lithuanian to its own subpage Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/Lithuanian/Joint Corpus 10K or another title if you have a strong view about this. This way, the subpage /Lithuanian could be used as an index for all further Lithuanian frequency lists. My logic being, ideally all languages would have one or several frequency lists, and if we had all 8000+ languages (or even just the 270 or so for which I know suitable frequency lists exist) listed straight at the top level, the article length would be unmanageable. User:Helrasincke/All_Languages shows one possible idea for dealing with this problem, but I'm sure there are other possibilities.

P.s. since I notice you are also working on Lithuanian entries here, I'd of course be grateful if you wished to give any feedback on the design, scope or utility of the following style of list User:Helrasincke/freqtest/LithuanianFreq. It of course can't match your upload in terms of data quality, but the full 645K list should cover most of the non-specialist terms we'd ever want to include. Helrasincke (talk) 06:35, 9 February 2023 (UTC)