User talk:Jinengi

Formatting

Every part of speech section (noun, verb, adjective, etc.) is required to have a headword template directly after the header for the part of speech. Some languages have specialized templates, but you can always use {{head}} with the correct language code ("an" for Aragonese). This is all explained at our Entry layout page. I might as well give you our welcome template so you can read up on all the rest:

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Chuck Entz (talk) 00:12, 20 April 2024 (UTC)

Copying entries

Please don't copy entries wholesale from one language to another, especially if you're unfamiliar with the templating. Jberkel 17:08, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

But it's the same definitions with just the different languages. Also why is it a problem that I added a descendent to the list of "loco"? Jinengi (talk) 17:16, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

You make mistakes while copying, leaving out head templates (also mentioned by Chuck Entz above), and leave languages codes set to the old language. In the descendants list, you broke the markup formatting. Etc. Jberkel 17:27, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

I'm sorry :< I tried to correct the heads thing but whenever I add "Template:an-verb" it stays like that on the edited page and I can't find how to solve this on the page they showed me Jinengi (talk) 17:42, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Not every language has language-specific templates. In such a case, you would use {{head|an|verb}}. Chuck Entz (talk) 18:36, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

I will do that from now on. And what about "new-L2" or "Mobile edit, Mobile web edit"? What did I wrong with those? Jinengi (talk) 19:12, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Those are strictly informational tags. There are lots of good edits that get those tags. They just help patrollers decide which edits to check first. The "No head temp" tag, on the other hand, is usually a good indication that something is wrong- if not with the present edit, at least with the state of the page before the latest one.

You do need to pay attention to language codes. For instance, you had {{lb|ca|transitive}} at Aragonese robinar, which put it into Category:Catalan transitive verbs, but without the headword template the only other category was Category:Aragonese terms suffixed with -ar. Now it's in Category:Aragonese verbs, Category:Aragonese transitive verbs and Category:Aragonese lemmas. From any of those categories, it's possible to go to Category:Aragonese language, where you can find things like Category:Aragonese templates. Category:Aragonese lemmas can be used to look at all the other Aragonese main entries to see how others have done things. Category:Aragonese non-lemma forms lets you look at all the entries for inflected forms like the different gender and number variants for adjectives (or nouns) and all the 1st/2nd/3rd person singular and plural forms for all the tenses of verbs, etc.

People have come up with a lot of tools over the last twenty years to make things fit into the rest of the dictionary and format things, and save you work- but they can also make your mistakes for you if you aren't paying attention. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:40, 26 April 2024 (UTC)