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Our categories are far more complex than you realize. It's generally not a good idea to just create a category specific to a single language and manually link it to an existing category. We have a system of modules with category definitions that are meant to apply to any number of languages. That means that Category:English noun-forming suffixes is just the English member of Category:Noun-forming suffixes by language. If you click on the "Edit category data" link you will find yourself in Module:category tree/poscatboiler/data/lemmas. Categories of the pattern "-forming suffixes" are defined automatically by the code, but the child categories are defined by adding a section for a new label. You have to be very careful to follow the correct format so that it's valid Lua code and uses the correct field names with square brackets, curly brackets, double-quotes and commas in the right places. Once you have that set up, you can create a category of that type for any language, put {{auto cat}} in it, and you're done.

As for your translingual suffix categories: I don't think they're a good idea. The endings in question were Latin endings that were arbitrarily applied to names at certain taxonomic ranks and were then specified by the taxonomic codes to always be added to names of those ranks. They have no grammatical significance whatsoever in taxonomical names, and the grammatical case stuff is really just trivia. What's more, there are a limited number of them- so there's not really much point in having a category.

I could say more, but that's all I have time for right now. Chuck Entz (talk) 15:03, 26 July 2021 (UTC)Reply

I'm not familiar with wikis. Thank you for your help.

Please don't create any more categories. If you're interested in them, feel free to expand existing ones, but the categories you've created so far are not of enough use or interest to justify their creation. Ultimateria (talk) 23:45, 26 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Greetings,

Regarding the numerous usage notes additions which you did on 2020-10-31 and 2020-11-01, it is inappropriate to copy text without sufficient adaptation. For example, in your additions to presently and to overly, unless you copy the abbreviations table, these need to be substituted with their meaning, as I did for presently. Similarly, when you refer to a source just by family name, you need to keep the notes, or at the very least make references specific. Chealer (talk) 16:11, 2 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for your contributions to Wiktionary. On 2020-10-31 and 2020-11-01, you copied content from w:List of English words with disputed usage into presently, persons, people, overly and several other entries. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia’s content (here or elsewhere), Wikipedia’s licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikimedia projects, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you have copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the source page, e.g., copied content from ]; see that page’s history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place at least a comment tag flagging the destination page as a copy. Please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor, and if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, you should provide attribution for that also. The procedure and the reasons are very similar to those for copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. -- Chealer (talk), 2 May 2025