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Please read through WT:EL: if the usage example at egopetal is a quote from the reference, it should be formatted as a quote, probably using the {{quote-book}} template, rather than as a usage example with a footnote. Also, the usage I find via Google Books (you should always check for usage before creating an entry for a rare word) seems more general than just the body- one book even applies it to nations. Chuck Entz (talk) 15:05, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

@Chuck Entz: Thanks for the welcome :)
No, the usage example is not a quote. The sentence in which the word appears in the article is so highly context dependend that I thought it would be better to make up a usage example.
I checked for usage, too, and found several other entries, so I was reasonably sure that "egopetal" wasn't just a word hyper-specific to a small area of research. I looked into one of them and didn't understand how the word was used in that context. I was actually working when I came across the rare word and took as much time off as I could justify to create this new article. Feel free to add other definitions to the page.--Zamomin (talk) 10:38, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

EDIT: Sorry, I just saw that you edited the article. I thought I would get a notification about this, but it was only on my watchlist. (It has been a while since I interacted in a substantial way with a wiki project.) The new definition is definitively applicable to a wider range of circumstances, but I think now the example sentence and the link don't fit as well as with the old definition.--Zamomin (talk) 10:52, 8 June 2021 (UTC)