User talk:Werdna/Archive-2006October

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other tasks

Wiktionary:Bots/Tasks --Connel MacKenzie 16:20, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

On bots

Have a look at what your bot is doing: bookkeeping. Is there really such a verb, to bookkeep? Unheard of, I'd say. :-) Dart evader 18:01, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

I told it to make that. Feel free to delete it — I have no objection. Werdna 02:02, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Plurals and past tenses

Do we list plurals and past tenses, even when they are regularly formed? Such as

• tense and tenses
• form and formed

I wonder what the policy or guideline is for this. --Ed Poor 15:18, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

I /believe/ so, and the preload templates seem to imply that we do. Of course, I'm only new in these parts, and I could be wasting my time on Special:Wantedpages Werdna 15:19, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, we do. They certainly have different pronunciations. And for find entries, since there is not advanced lookup scheme available (to find the root inflected form) nor is there any way to clarify what language you'd like to look the word up in, each separate spelling is supposed to have its own entry. I prefer to let my 'bots enter these, rather than trying to chase them down manually. --Connel MacKenzie 19:27, 12 October 2006 (UTC)