User talk:Princetonbee

Two things before you continue:

1. Names start with capital letters.
2. We have strict formatting on this site. Please familiarize yourself with it using the links below. Haplogy (話) 03:17, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

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Your insistance on adding entries with no formatting.

I've deleted some of your entries as they do not comply, at all, with our basic formatting guidelines. Without the basic formatting/gramatical skeleton, an entry usually gets deleted on sight. Please consider this a benign warning. Further insistence on creating entries incorrectly will unfortunately result in a temporary block on your account. Jamesjiao → ^{T ◊ C} 03:37, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

English surnames

Hi. When you add one of these, please use # {{surname|lang=en}} as the definition. This will still display as "an English surname", but it will also make sure that the entry gets properly categorised as a surname. Equinox ◑ 02:24, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Name entries for random names

This is a dictionary, not a comprehensive list of all the names in the world. Please only add names that are in some use in the language in question. The fact that someone has that name doesn't make it worthy of an entry. I haven't added a surname entry for my surname, for instance, because it's pretty rare- in German-speaking countries it's spelled differently, and outside of German-speaking countries Entzes only number in the hundreds. And the fact that an American man might be named Reinhold doesn't make Reinhold a US English given name. Also, names in non-English languages have to be formatted according to the standards for those languages: Russian names have to be spelled in Cyrillic script, for instance.

Another thing: if an entry has been deleted, please find out from the admin who deleted it why it was deleted and address those reasons before re-adding it. Re-adding previously-deleted entries can be grounds for blocking your account. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:56, 18 December 2013 (UTC)