User talk:Mariagat1959

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Please note the changes I made to your first two entries. The language code for Lakota is lkt, and it must be under a "Lakota" header. Chuck Entz (talk) 13:55, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Táku Wakȟáŋ

I don't think this means "Great Spirit"- that would be Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka. I don't know what táku means, but it's something that's wakȟáŋ, so it would probably be better to translate it as Holy/Spiritual [whatever Táku is]. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:51, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

thank you,you're right....

Definitions

Definitions go on the line with "#". Please fix your entries. DTLHS (talk) 19:21, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

Formatting issues

Please, please look at the links provided at the top of this page and the entries elsewhere in Wiktionary. You are leaving a mess that will take other people a lot of time to clean up. For starters, Wiktionary is case-sensitive. Please do not create entries starting with a capital letter unless that word is always written that way (like Mars in English). And never include question marks in page titles, even for questions. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 20:50, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Please do not create entries with titles like amáyuštaŋ ye/yo; the slash is not actually part of the phrase and therefore should not be in the entry title. I have moved this to amáyuštaŋ ye, and I would recommend that you create a separate entry for the feminine form. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 18:41, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

I have had to delete several entries that you have created, including Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka tókhel Lakȟótiya ehápi he, because they are not words or phrases that belong in a dictionary. We only accept words, idiomatic expressions, and phrases that would be found in a phrasebook. As a rule of thumb, if the Lakota title has a space in it, and the English translation you've linked to is red, the entry should probably not exist. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 18:55, 23 February 2020 (UTC)