User talk:Pamrel

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Ultimateria (talk) 01:29, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

Cognates in etymology sections

Please stop adding those, it's pointless. Canonicalization (talk) 14:18, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

What is your point, exactly?. It seems to me that you're only expressing your personal opinion. FYI, other editors are adding cognates as well, I'm very far from being the only one who does that. Pamrel (talk) 15:52, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

That's my opinion, and that of several others. We try to avoid duplication of information and needless clutter as much as possible here; adding lists of cognates goes against that principle. When we're giving the Proto-Slavic etymon, those cognates are only one click away anyway. Also, once you add a cognate in a certain language, people start adding cognates in other languages too, and you end up with an exhaustive list of cognates. Indeed, what's the point? Canonicalization (talk) 20:31, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

It’s vandalism. He just joined and only adds cognates which are there already. Fay Freak (talk) 23:46, 21 November 2019 (UTC)