User talk:Mintz l

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Also, given your area of interest, you might want to look at Wiktionary:Beer parlour/2015/January#Deprecating "Acronym", "Initialism" and "Abbreviation" headers.

— Keφr 21:54, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Can you please point me to an example that has proper usage of all relevant templates? Thanks, Mintz l (talk) 23:00, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

Not sure what you mean here. Which templates have you got in mind? I see nothing wrong in your edits so far (apart from abbreviation headers being deprecated). — Keφr 00:33, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

I tried to use Template:head (using {{head|en|initialism}}) and got the following automatic message: "Warning: Your contribution does not contain a valid language and part-of-speech header." What's wrong? Mintz l (talk) 19:44, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

When was it? I see no such thing in your log. — Keφr 19:59, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi,

1. This change produces this message, even though I provided the "nouns" argument.
2. And one more thing: instead of using Template:initialism, I'm supposed to use only Template:initialism of?

Thanks, Mintz l (talk) 04:52, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Use "noun" instead of "nouns". The template adds the "s" Chuck Entz (talk) 05:58, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

1) It is not the template that is the problem; you removed the level-3 header. This edit fixed it. 2) Yes. — Keφr 07:35, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

I see you replaced Template:head with Template:en-noun. Is it only a shortcut or something different? Mintz l (talk) 18:25, 4 January 2015 (UTC)