User talk:Walton One~enwiktionary

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Hello, and welcome to Wiktionary. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:


I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wiktionarian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk (discussion) and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~, which automatically produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to one of the discussion rooms or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --EncycloPetey 19:50, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

One additional note. Unlike Wikipedia, we do not place ===References=== and level 2; that level is reserved only for language names. All other headers in use must be at level 3 or deeper. --EncycloPetey 19:50, 18 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You may find it helpful to use listen and parrot as format models for fully-developed articles. I've been working with a number of other contributors to turn these into such models. It often helps more to have a specific example to follow rather than abstarct instructions. --EncycloPetey 19:19, 19 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,[edit]

We don't do userboxes here. Babel templates for living languages (only) are OK. --Connel MacKenzie 17:51, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Entry format[edit]

Please note three changes I've made to sergeants major to bring it into format compliance with WT:ELE. --EncycloPetey 20:46, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  1. Added an inflection line after the part of speech section header. This may look redundant for this entry, but that's only true for some words. It is a requirement that all entries have them.
  2. The use of a # at the start of the definition line.
  3. Removal of the category; we don't put plurals and inflected forms into categories unless they have a unique definition in their own right (like scissors).
When editors provide tips like this, it's a sign that you're doing good work and we hope to see more and better entries. Please consider the advice as a complement rather than a rebuke. --EncycloPetey 20:49, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The typical way we deal with a regional usage of a term is to use {{UK}} or {{US}} at the start of a definition line to mark the definition as specific to one region. If there is a military term that applies only in the UK and Singapore, you can extend this by using {{context|military|UK|Singapore}}. The {{context}} template allows for the merging of several regional markers as well as the topical one for Category:Military (so you don't have to add the category at the bottom). --EncycloPetey 21:00, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Being as military ranks are your area of expertise, and being as this idiom is apparently derived thence, you may want to help out with this one (which I’ve sent to RFV), as well as adding the properly-capitalised rank, Admiral of the Blue. † Raifʻhār Doremítzwr 17:36, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your account will be renamed[edit]

00:11, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed[edit]

07:35, 21 April 2015 (UTC)