User talk:Klbrain
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I can't tell you how hard it was to fight back the impulse to revert your whole contribution to dhole- you obviously know nothing about Wiktionary translation tables. To start with, adding Wikipedia-style referencing to a translation table is absolutely unnecessary, and it gives you a false sense of security about adding bad translations. Wiktionary translation tables are strictly a means of linking to entries, which is where all the bells and whistles are.
We have templates that we use for translations: ignoring the + and - versions, use {{t}} when you have good translations that you personally know are correct, {{t-check}} for translations that are at least in the correct script, and {{t-needed}} for everything else. If you must provide all that other stuff, provide it on the talk page (not the citations page, which is for texts showing usage for the term). Chuck Entz (talk) 23:49, 15 July 2018 (UTC)
- That's very disciplined of you to hold back; thank you also for your clear and helpful guidance. As you've detected, I'm much more familiar with editing on Wikipedia, and the material moved over as part of merge proposal, rather than the normal 'Copy to Wiktionary' process. I'll have a look at tidying dhole up today.Klbrain (talk) 11:24, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
- My thank to Suzukaze-c for dealing with the translation templates; I've now dealt with the references (as discussed above). Klbrain (talk) 11:42, 16 July 2018 (UTC)