User talk:Languageseeker

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! --Apisite (talk) 22:52, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Wiktionary:Requests_for_deletion/Non-English#挽回面子

Hi, @Languageseeker. How are you?

I feel your pain and I wish I could go to that RFD and type "Keep." But I don't know a word of Mandarin Chinese and they'd call me out on that. I check out RFD from time to time, maybe there'll be some other opportunity to help you save a term. Have a good one ;-) -- Dentonius (my politics | talk) 16:06, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Stag beetle

Hi, a stag beetle is called 鍬形蟲 in Chinese. Please do not create Chinese entries if you are unfamiliar with the language. RcAlex36 (talk) 12:21, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

Alright sorry I may be wrong, but please follow proper formatting. RcAlex36 (talk) 12:24, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

No worries. Is there any simple way of finding out if their is a difference between traditional and simplified when adding an entry? It seems that Wiktionary prefers the main entry to be in Traditional with a zh-see for the simplified version. Or is just based on familiarity with the different characters? Languageseeker (talk) 13:14, 18 October 2020 (UTC)

You can pick 繁體 (traditional Chinese) and 简体 (simplified Chinese) on Chinese Wikipedia. The easier method, however, is to check here on Wiktionary. Check character by character if you are not sure. RcAlex36 (talk) 13:26, 18 October 2020 (UTC)