User talk:Dcmacnut
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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Equinox ◑ 22:10, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
The documentation actually should be on the talk page, for no other reason that this is our norm. Mglovesfun (talk) 22:00, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
ja-kanji – ありがとう!
[edit]Thank you for your recent improvements to {{ja-kanji}}
(and {{ja-kref}}
)! (元気そうな人ですね。)
I am also keenly interested in Japanese (まだ上手じゃないですけど。。。) so I’d be happy to assist or discuss if such proves helpful, and in any event, ようこそ! (ガンバレ!)
—Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 01:13, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
Consolidation
[edit]Hello and welcome to Wiktionary. I have been noticing your edits for the past month. We do not consolidate entries into one. Each is a separate word (lemma) and is given a separate entry. Regards, Bendono 04:25, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
- Fair enough, but I've seen other Han or Japanese entries where alternative readings of a kanji are consolidated under a single POS header. They technically aren't separate words, merely different ways of reading it. The kanji itself is the lemma, not the reading. If this were a hiragana page, or if the reading somehow reflected a different meaning, (such as shishi versus shika), it would be different. I won't consolidate in the future per your request, but I would be of the mindset that for Han and Kanji entries, that policy probably should be revisited. I did add back the other non-consolidation additions I made before your reversion, such as "archaic" identifiers. Shika is the only modern reading for deer in Japanese. The others are no longer used in common speech today.
- Another question. How do you stop User:AutoFormat from tagging L4 noun headers as "wrong." When you have an L3 specific Etymology header for only one a reading of a part of speech, WT:ELE says you have to nest the POS as L4. But AutoFormat always marks it as being wrong.Dcmacnut 19:30, 28 March 2010 (UTC)