I think that this template should be altered; to either
I am most certainly willing to design the latter templates; and I could probably figure out how to do the first option, too, if someone were to explain parameters to me. Does anyone oppose this or have any suggestions? Beobach972 19:17, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
I think the second parameter should be switched now that we have a template naming convention for these things. It should be "lang=de" instead of "de:". --Connel MacKenzie 01:14, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
Please add <noinclude>]</noinclude>. --Andrejj 16:06, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
The template is uncategorized. Again, I voice my opinion that having these templates protected is a bad solution to a minuscule problem. __meco 18:43, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
{{plural of}} or that crowd? Conrad.Irwin 18:59, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
If more of the etymology is known, which is preferable for the from field: the immediate parent language, or the ultimate origin? I'm specifically looking at Ukrainian Михайло, which was borrowed into OES. and inherited by Ukrainian: Hebrew > Greek > (Church Slavonic) > Old East Slavic ... Ukrainian. —Michael Z. 2008-08-26 15:39 z
Could someone update the template to automatically categorise diminutive forms. We could add a "diminutive=yes" parameter to the template, which would modify the auto-included category:
It would need a more careful inspection, given that there are other variables which affect categorisation. The placement of diminutives of is also open to discussion, though some categories with this naming already exist. Consider, for example, Category:Italian diminutives of male given names and its parent Category:Italian male given names. Mindmatrix 21:07, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible to add a parameter for sorting? I am thinking of Japanese, where given names are usually written in kanji, the logographic script, but it would be better to sort by hiragana, the phonetic script, which is how Japanese dictionaries are written. This is already done with the hidx parameter in headword line templates, skey in Template:context, and sort in Template:suffix. It's up to the editor to provide the right phonetic script version for that field, and the template just has to use that for sorting. It makes things look much better and of course it makes it easier for readers to find what they are looking for. Thanks! Haplology 15:16, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
Shouldn't this template add all relevant categories, rather than the most specific one, save ]? For example, {{given name|male|from=Hebrew|lang=de}} Should, in my opinion, categorize in German male given names and Category:German given names from Hebrew (or Category:German male given names from Hebrew). Right now, doesn't add Category:German male given names as it's supersesed rather than accompanied by the latter category. --Mglovesfun (talk) 17:00, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
When using the parameter “lang=hr” or “lang=Croatian”, the template will show “Script error”. Please fix this. But if that’s not the issue, what am I doing wrong? 〜britannic124 (talk) 20:10, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
Is there a way to put multiple diminutives? 〜britannic124 (talk) 20:15, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
Often an English-language name equivalent is listed after this template, and it would be good to have support for at least 5-6 optional parameters for them. E.g. "An equivalent of English X, Y, Z...". --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 17:32, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
Can someone, who can edit this template, please add a parameter to indicate the transliteration of a name in the sense line. This is useful in situations were there exists a common transliteration that is different from the one used by our system.
For an example see this diff. The name חַוָּה (khavá) is commonly transliterated as Chava (and also Chavah, Hava and Havva), by us as khavá, and is equivalent to English Eve.
So usage would be something like:
{{given name|female|lang=he|tr=Chava|eq=Eve}}
Enosh (talk) 13:32, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
The template categorizes into source language, but does not display it, except in the category section, which may not be visible on long entries. Even when it is, users have probably learned to ignore categorization. I hoped that the eq parameter would do the job, but it insists on displaying only "English" equivalence. Thus a complete entry needs to have an Etymology section to display highly standardized and predictable derivation information. This is a waste of time. DCDuring TALK 13:31, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
See also w:Sex and gender distinction. I think we should change the text and move the categories. (Weirdly the parameter is already |gender=.) @Benwing2 —Enosh (talk) 20:18, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
{{given name}} personal, no? —Enosh (talk) 11:11, 10 July 2016 (UTC)As can be seen in Andrei, adding an etymological category overwrites the supercategory, so Given Names Derived From Greek don't get filed in Given Names. Korn (talk) 20:48, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
"from" parameter doesn't work properly.--Calak (talk) 13:42, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
What is the point of this parameter?
The only thing I see it used for is to make the initial "A" lowercase. If lowercase is the preferred style, why isn't it the Template's default? If lowercase is not the preferred style, why does the Template allow it? Isn't uniformity of formatting one of the main points of templates?--98.110.34.122 05:08, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
Every template that insists on doing its own punctuation needs an escape hatch. — LlywelynII 16:00, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
@Fytcha You pinged me about being able to indicate a diminutive name without specifying what it's a diminutive of. Having |dim= with a blank param won't work so well for this purpose but we can use a syntax like |dim=+ or |dim=1 or something. Benwing2 (talk) 03:33, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
|dim=? would also be worth consideration or simply anything that only consists of numbers and (ASCII) symbols. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 22:06, 18 July 2022 (UTC)At Pollyanna, I saw this usage:
{{given name|en|female|from=Hebrew}} derived from {{l|en|] and ]}}; rare in the real world.
which gives
Not to sure how to express this with the current parameters. JWBTH (talk) 10:19, 11 July 2023 (UTC)