User talk:Etym/2012

May

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 11:58, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

φιλíα

I have deleted this entry, as it was misspelled (the accented iota was actually an accented Latin i). However we have the correct spelling at φιλία (philía), which I've recently expanded. Any questions or comments, please let me know. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 11:58, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

December

Please stop

You don't seem to know what you're doing. We don't create redirects like that; please see WT:REDIR. We don't transliterate Ancient Greek like that; please see WT:AGRC. Ancient Greek was not pronounced like Modern Greek. Please stop editing things that you don't know anything about or I will have to block you. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 06:21, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

related terms

Hi! This is one of the more confusing things about Wiktionary, but: the "Related terms" sections are for etymologically related terms only, not merely semantically related / coordinate terms, which go in "See also" or even "Coordinate terms" sections (see WT:Wiktionary:Semantic relations for a bit more on "Coordinate terms" sections). Hence I moved things around a bit here. - -sche (discuss) 20:38, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

PS, rather than using {{unreferenced}} tags (which tend to go unnoticed), you can post in the Tea Room or WT:RFV if you have doubts about a word's definition. Cheers, :) - -sche (discuss) 20:38, 9 December 2012 (UTC)

I forgot to mention

One more thing: if you don't know what a word means in a language you don't speak, it would be more helpful if you don't add it. For Middle English, instead of creating stubs like this, please check if the Middle English Dictionary has it, and, if so, get information like the part of speech there. Thanks —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 06:53, 10 December 2012 (UTC)