User talk:Gpaetz

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! —Justin (koavf)TCM 10:28, 24 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the info. It DOES look like a steep learning curve! I have made about 100 edits in Wikipedia, so I will eventually master this in Wiktionary. I hope.
Meanwhile, can you please help me find an answer as to why the page for
"explētīvus" was deleted and why is there no page for this common part of speech? Thanks. Gpaetz (talk) 04:59, 25 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Again, just to be clear, we have never had an entry for explētīvus, but there was one at expletivus and the reason that was deleted was because it was just nonsense and it was not an actual entry. There should be an entry at expletivus: as you can see, other entries link to it and it has been explicitly requested. The only reason it's not there now is just because no one has gotten to it yet.
If you are finding creating entries confusing, I personally think the easiest way to learn is to reverse engineer, so take existing pages, copy them, and modify them for what you're trying to do. If you want to tinker around with it, you can do so at User:Gpaetz/sandbox or in the general community sandbox at Wiktionary:Sandbox. —Justin (koavf)TCM 11:56, 25 July 2024 (UTC)Reply