User talk:Dcmacnut

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Equinox ◑ 22:10, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Template:ja-kref

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！

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

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)