User talk:Microcell
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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 20:57, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
Yes, that's exactly what you're meant to do with such tags, when you can. Mglovesfun (talk) 20:59, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you. I have just verified some other tagged information in Ukrainian, where it was pretty straightforward. Those entries had other drawbacks to work on, like missing pronunciantion or conjugations (which, on the other hand, made checking them easier for me), but they don't seem critical for the existence of a page or section. --Microcell (talk) 21:12, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
We don't use this the same way Wikipedia does. Since our Criteria For Inclusion are based on usage, we add {{rfv}} or {{rfv-sense}} (depending on whether the whole word or just one sense of the word is contested) to request that someone check whether the term is used/used with the contested definition. This adds a box to the entry, and there is a "+" in the box which should be clicked to create an entry at WT:RFV to explain your request. Just remember that we're a descriptive dictionary, so we include any term or definition of term that's in actual use, even if it's wrong (though we mark erroneous ones as misspellings, proscribed, etc., so that no one is misled). Chuck Entz (talk) 20:17, 1 February 2013 (UTC)