User talk:DaveyLiverpool

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! --Apisite (talk) 20:45, 13 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thank you!

DaveyLiverpool (talk) 23:16, 17 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

It is not operational yet and produces wrong results. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 01:30, 11 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Fytcha. I have looked through my entries and you have caught them all. When I add more entries in future I will omit the pronunciation section entirely (unless I can find a reliable method/source to add the pronunciations manually as others have done). Thanks again for your time. DaveyLiverpool (talk) 10:12, 11 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

You could look up the Romanian edition of Wiktionary to look for the IPA, which I clean up whenever I could. --Apisite (talk) 10:14, 11 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Apisite. I will do that. DaveyLiverpool (talk) 10:18, 11 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hi - please don't make changes like this one. It's pointless, and actually breaks the headword line because it uses a different syntax. Can you please revert any others like this? Theknightwho (talk) 12:23, 18 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Yes, of course. I don't even recall tinkering with the Russian section back there, but I will be sure to revert any others I find. Hopefully there are few such examples. Thanks for pointing it out.DaveyLiverpool (talk) 12:55, 18 September 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! It's the same with Ukrainian, really - the acceleration module sorts it out (I know Russian and Ukrainian both have their own settings). If you think something's genuinely wrong, 99% of the time it'll mean some parameter will needs to be changed in the declension template on the lemma page, and if that doesn't work, it suggests there's a mistake in the declension module itself (which should be brought up at the Beer Parlour). Chances are you won't come across that unless you're adding some weird loanword.

Thanks for your work on these - I know that Wiktionary can be a bit of a steep learning curve with all the rigidity. Theknightwho (talk) 13:04, 18 September 2022 (UTC)Reply