User talk:JohanW82
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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 16:18, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
Female demonyms
[edit]Please be careful in adding entries for female demonyms in Dutch, because these are often much worse attested than the masculine counterparts. Samoaanse for one seems poorly attested. The way the English version of Wiktionary works is that well-documented languages like Dutch require that senses are supported by three independent (not by the same author or group of cooperating authors), durable (not easily deletable or perishable like a website or flyer) quotations with actual usage. Thank you for your arduous work otherwise. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 17:32, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
- According to Dutch language organizations this term exists (dont't be wrong or a misspelling, see Taalunie/VRT), but it is indeed rare. I'll add (unusual) to this article. I hope it gets resolved now. JohanW82 (talk)
- I don't dispute that the term is grammatically valid and lexically meaningful, but Wiktionary is an empirical dictionary that only allows hypothetical forms (fulfilling specific criteria) for certain poorly attested languages (and in that case those hypoothetical forms would be 'bugs', not the intended features of the policy). To other languages, WT:CFI applies.
←₰-→Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 21:15, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
- I don't dispute that the term is grammatically valid and lexically meaningful, but Wiktionary is an empirical dictionary that only allows hypothetical forms (fulfilling specific criteria) for certain poorly attested languages (and in that case those hypoothetical forms would be 'bugs', not the intended features of the policy). To other languages, WT:CFI applies.
- According to Dutch language organizations this term exists (dont't be wrong or a misspelling, see Taalunie/VRT), but it is indeed rare. I'll add (unusual) to this article. I hope it gets resolved now. JohanW82 (talk)
Just confirming that "Saharan" in Dutch is capitalized. Bedankt. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:34, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
- OK, indeed capitalized. JohanW82 (talk) 14:20, 19 August 2021 (UTC)