User talk:Loveroftheworld14710

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Ultimateria (talk) 22:24, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

Links to nowhere

Please check to make sure that the pages you're linking to with the templates actually exist before you add the templates. I usually click Show preview, then right-click or command-click to open the link in a new tab. If I get "there is no text on this page" message, I remove the template. Only after I've checked all the links do I click "Publish changes" to save my edit. There's no excuse for spamming the dictionary with bad links. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:29, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

To repeat Chuck Entz, please stop adding broken links. We will have to block you if you don't start paying attention to your edits. Ultimateria (talk) 01:51, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

One of the dozens of edits I reverted (here) had {{Wikipedia|lang=fro}}, linking to a nonexistent Old French Wikipedia. That tells me a completely mechanical substitution process was being used: take the language code for the section and plug it into whichever of the three templates aren't already there. Another telling example is French phraséologie: No one would be dumb enough to expect there to be media at Commons related to it, so I can only assume that it was taken from a list of translations for words ending in -ology without any effort to weed out ringers like this one. The fact that there have been as many as 5 of these edits in one minute would seem to indicate that we have either a cut-and-paste assembly-line method or a bot/script being used to crank these out blindly at high speed. Chuck Entz (talk) 05:03, 19 June 2019 (UTC)