User talk:AgentProvocateur518

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Equinox ◑ 07:03, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Hi again. In response to your e-mail: if you are looking for general things to do, you might find something at Wiktionary:Task_lists. Since compiling a dictionary is a somewhat mechanistic/descriptive thing, I'm not too sure about how you can use creative writing skills; those might be better suited to e.g. Wikipedia or Wikivoyage where it is necessary to write articles in running English, rather than short definitions and etymologies for words. Personally, I just like words, and finding out new words, and writing the definitions. Other people spend more time on translations, or trying to organise the data with template programming, or what not. Equinox ◑ 04:31, 13 December 2015 (UTC)