User talk:98.170.164.88

Todo: see if it's possible to cite Trimount/Trimountain, an archaic name for (part of) Boston, MA

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You're 70. right? — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 17:52, 22 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

Y'know, it's crazy! I brought this up to @Surjection and @Chuck Entz just the other day. The latter, and Svartava, actually impeded the page 'Mestizean' from being removed back in June. It's ironic because the former two admins are supposedly committed to upholding Wiktionary's values and yet let an unattested page stand until I reintroduced the topic, pointing out their hypocrisy. Hopefully you're a legitimate user and not just a sock-puppet account for one of the aforementioned. Your request that the term be verified is something that these pharisees have never had the guts to pull-off. — This unsigned comment was added by Wordbookeeper (talk • contribs) at 21:15, 23 October 2022.

Hello! It was not actually a coincidence. I was browsing Special:RecentChanges, saw the thread on Surjection's talk page, and checked out the entry Mestizean since you mentioned it. You were right about the word not being attestable (as far as I can tell from all the sources I've checked). To be fair, Chuck Entz, in his comment here, was right about RfV being a more appropriate procedure than speedy deletion for challenging terms. In practice, some terms that are obviously unattestable are just speedy deleted anyway, but this is usually when terms are obviously wrong or they had just been created. Once a term has been on Wiktionary for a while, the standard is to give it a month to see if anyone comes up with sources. 98.170.164.88 22:26, 23 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

That makes sense! I appreciate your clarification.

Hey there, just wanted to stop by and leave a note thanking you for your fixes to Template:R:cel:EDPC! It really is appreciated, take care. —The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 22:07, 31 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

For alerting the block error. MathXplore (talk) 07:35, 24 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

@MathXplore: Don't mention it! It's the least I could do to help a fellow victim of the misclick. Good job cleaning up vandalism, I've seen you in RecentChanges quite a bit. :) 98.170.164.88 08:02, 24 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

I'm pretty sure you're our favorite IP editor. Why you don't make an account I don't understand, but I don't need to to understand and appreciate your edits. Cheers! Vininn126 (talk) 05:55, 29 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Vininn126: Thank you, I'm glad to be of service! :-) There are a lot of great unregistered editors though. 98.170.164.88 03:29, 1 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Always check the actual page layout. The Google snippets (etc.) get this wrong frequently. Equinox ◑ 06:19, 1 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

@Equinox: No, it was right. My mistake was linking to the wrong page. (The reason I linked to the wrong page was because I added &pg=PA12 to the URL, but Google Books has misnumbered the pages for whatever reason. I normally check that, but overlooked it in that case.)

Go to the page 12, it's on paragraph 2, line 13, word 3. Some other editions of the same work have it hyphenated at the line boundary, so it's at least a varia lectio (and is quoted in this spelling here). 98.170.164.88 06:36, 1 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Oh. Not in the version I found. There must be various printings that differ. I imagine the unhyphenated one was a printer's error at some point. Equinox ◑ 06:40, 1 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Was the version you found also the third edition, dated 1775, as I cited? As for whether it's an error, it's possible, but there are other words like "eyedoctor" that sometimes occur without a space (, ), and there are even other attested one-word terms for this particular profession (e.g., dogtor). It's probably borderline. Btw I always check the original page layout when available, and generally avoid citing when it's not (except maybe when the reading is crystal clear). 98.170.164.88 07:38, 1 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Can't remember the discussion (I am clearing up some ancient "notifications") but good for you. Thanks. Heh. Equinox ◑ 05:37, 13 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Apologies for these - they're the casualties of the sortkey rollback. I suspect part of the issue is simply down to the fact that there's just More Stuff. The errors on the Chinese pages make no sense to me at all, though. Theknightwho (talk) 03:25, 16 December 2022 (UTC)Reply