Feel free to leave me a message. Mglovesfun 02:19, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi there Martin! Remember me from ISC? Anyways, great to see you editing here! Cheers, Razorflame 18:49, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi! I see you're adding interwiki links to Wiktionnaire. Note that this is unnecessary: there is a bot that does it automatically. You're welcome to do it, but are wasting your time.—msh210℠ 19:24, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
Just a small point, but glosses from foreign languages into English shouldn't end in full stops. Just the translation(s) alone is fine. Thanks! Ƿidsiþ 11:07, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
You may find WT:ACCEL can help you creating French plurals. Conrad.Irwin 11:53, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
Well, I never do anything with Old French :) Equinox ◑ 00:13, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
"If I were to make a minor suggestion, it would be to copy the etymologies from the existing article (tragic/tragique) otherwise the article looks a bit bare." That is true; on the other hand, I don't like duplicating content because if the source ever changes, the copied versions will not. I am now trying to write a "French" ety for words that can stand it (e.g. consomm+ateur), and adding an ety of "See under " for those that already have a long history of some classical language leading up to the French (and thence to English). Ideally we would represent these etys in some "semantic" way so that they could be generated on the fly, but we are far from that. Equinox ◑ 22:50, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
{{etyl}}
for cognates in etymologies.) There is broad agreement that context tags do not belong there. A concrete illustration of the harm is that putting a "US" context on the alternative spelling "labor" in the the entry for "labour" puts "labour" in a "US English" category. I use {{i}}
; others use {{qualifier}}
. I really should look into any differences in the consequences of using one rather than the other.
{{etyl}}
it can by used for cognates without bad side effects by having "-" as second parameter. I think you were the only person I may have misled. DCDuring TALK 23:46, 25 May 2009 (UTC){{sense}}
. It has the effect of increasing the chances that someone will find what they want (usually a definition). Though this is accepted, many don't do it and it is not obligatory. DCDuring TALK 14:55, 24 May 2009 (UTC)Homophones
Looks a lot better than
Homophones
But hey, I'm pretty flexible, Mglovesfun 00:04, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
{{homophones}}
which reflects a preferred (not "mandatory") format (I think). It takes but one line for several homophones vs. 1.5 + number of homophones and yields:As far as I am concerned, I believe that so few users can make use of the phonetic alphabet material (and even the OGG files) that homophones could be the only usable material in our pronunciation section for 80% or more of our non-admin users and more of our unregistered ones. DCDuring TALK 00:27, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
From Wiktionary:Requests for deletion/Others#Category:Palindromes by language:
“Further comment, I'd like to see things like Category:Chess renamed Category:en:Chess because it screws up interwikis quite a lot. Mglovesfun 00:24, 26 May 2009 (UTC)”
–I agree wholeheartedly. If you were to make the case for this change and begin a VOTE on the issue, I would support your endeavour. † ﴾(u):Raifʻhār (t):Doremítzwr﴿ 00:03, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi. You seem to do lots of useful things. If you're interesting in being an administrator, I'd be happy to nominate you and start the voting cogwheels. Equinox ◑ 21:41, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Do you know, is there any quick easy way to add inflected French forms? Or conjugations? --Rising Sun 10:22, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Are you sure this comes from Italian briccola? The meanings seem quite different. Perhaps the noun (a small piece of something) comes from briciola. SemperBlotto 10:54, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Do you know anything about the etymology of serein; I cannot understand whether it comes from the etymology stated in the English section or from the Latin word serēnus. I noticed serain was on your Old French list to add, which is why I am asking you. Caladon 11:00, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your message! (I don't work on fr.wikt for the moment). See you later.Jiròni 11:22, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
Hello. Since you are interested in Old French, can you try including the etymology for ras-le-bol. It is among my favorite words in French. --Rising Sun 10:36, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
Merci pour ton offre d'aide. --Antal 21:09, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
Um, what is the question - where am I getting the words to put in, or where am I getting the definitions? I'll give you the answers to both ... I am getting the words off of this list to put in, and as many definitions as I can find I am summarizing out of Webster's Third New International Dictionary copyright 1990 something. (Did you read my conversation with Equinox, who had the same concern about plagiarism? half of it's on Equinox's talk page.) You probably don't, but do you know if anyone else is working through the Hotlist, or is it just me who has the nerve to attempt such a dauntingly monstrous project? I'm only in the 400s of the first page (of 13!! :P) and it is going reeeeeaaaaaaallllllyyyyy slowly. At least I have a whole lifetime before me to get the thing finished... Thanks for the comment! L☺g☺maniac chat? 20:31, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi! As general policy we do not put iwikis in templates. (they cause small process overhead, and re-rendering every time someone changes an iwiki, to no purpose). They are usually put on the talk/doc page if desired, in a section for them. Robert Ullmann 13:11, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
whoops, OK, can do. Do I still use the ===Noun=== header with the {{en-proper noun}} template? or is there a Proper Noun header too? Thanks for telling me. :) L☺g☺maniac chat? 21:34, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Sorry, didn't catch that. What did you mean? L☺g☺maniac chat? 21:54, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
Abayer is an obsolete form of aboyer. --Antal 10:06, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
I'm not sure of the reason behind your action to exclude the interwiki to "Wiktionnaire" with "Français" definitions - as I named it. I'm curious what made you reconsider and undo your inclusion for the "fr:" . Is it because the version for the "en:" is more general, and might perhaps be used in other cases than just articles' pages (discussion pages, etc.)? I'm not certain that the "en:" version can be used for template pages also, or can it? All the best, --Biblbroks 13:52, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
{{rfc}}
. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:55, 14 July 2009 (UTC)At WT:WL seconding a nomination is sufficient: you can mark it "approved by" and follow the "rights" link to change the user's group to "autopatroller". (Perhaps you knew this already and deliberately did not do this with respect to Leasnam because you were uncertain in your support and unwilling to flip the switch, in which case sorry for bothering you.)—msh210℠ 17:47, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
s/ comes from the command (from sed and ed, I know, but I assume also from other programs — perhaps even shells?) to replace one string with another. I mean, it is that command, but it has also entered the lexicon as an informal way of saying "replace one string with another" in normal text, i.e. not in computer scripts: see the example given at citations:s/. (I've no doubt there are three usable citations for this sense, and we can have the entry, but I'm having trouble finding them: it's hard to search for this.)—msh210℠ 18:59, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
er, I was just about to get to that - you very nicely mixed me up! Good going! ; ) For the future - I usually create plurals of entries I create so others don't need to bother - and it does mix me up... L☺g☺maniac chat? 21:19, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Someone went on a minor crusade to change "sum of parts" to non-idiomaticity a while ago. The trouble is that they don't mean the same thing.
kinetic energy is not SoP (and we have it), because it needs a precise definition. But it is also not idiomatic.
The test was (and is) SoP. Something that is not SoP is often an idiom, but certainly not always. And, of course, idioms can be single words Mississippi, and therefore not possibly SoP. I like your edit to CFI, but just wait for someone to demand a vote. (I certainly won't!) Robert Ullmann 13:57, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello. A nice word game...good film...Are interested in catch wrestling? Maybe you can help me improve the wrestling section of Wikt. I would like to add more French terms for this sport - maybe my favorite sports in the world. I think it would be good to add to this Category:fr:Wrestling category. Have a nice week. --Rising Sun 19:44, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
Testing is over, you can delete the sandbox page. See Template:ex. and автобус for usage example. -- Wesha 16:09, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi Mglovesfun,
I don't think this edit was really appropriate. If an editor doesn't want to capitalize "Google Books" in his own comments, I really think that's his right.
—RuakhTALK 02:51, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
Your "interwicket" reverted a valid improvement to the term railroaded.
I do not care so much for myself if you decide not to keep the change but doing so may deprive others of valuable reference knowledge.
Please consider adapting the change. 71.100.1.156 20:34, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
"Greenality" lived only for a few hours? Is there no consideration for allowing others to look and evaluate?
Is the term offensive in some way? If so, how?
I was actually ASKED to post this here BY WIKIPEDIA, who thought that the definition in wikipedia fit better as a dictionary entry. I do so, and then it is deleted within hours?
...not feeling the love over here...
Hi, thanks for cleaning these pages away, in future could you let me know of problems that you find with the indices so I can correct the scripts that generate them. (Otherwise they'll just keep being created again). Thanks Conrad.Irwin 00:30, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for correcting me on that. I tried to look at the pages Wiktionary:Redirects and Wiktionary:Spelling variants in entry names, but I wasn't too clear on what to do. I'll use the alternative spelling of template. Thanks, --OldakQuill 13:30, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi. Yes, I can, but from September --Antal 14:33, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
Why delete further advice on what a word with such a limited definition means? Spirit of this whole system is to share knowledge and your downright vandalism by deleting whole sections promotes exactly the opposite.
If you feel that perhaps the way the entry is worded isn’t an appropriate format, why not rephrase/format, rather than a wholesale delete. Progression and knowledge is made and created in an academic world by taking someone else’s work, building on it and then handing it on to the next generation/person to build on that understanding. By simply deleting information does absolutely nothing for the global knowledge base that is this people’s encyclopaedia.
I see you regularly pounce on peoples entries from the comments above – it is a shame you don’t display a level of intelligence and academic ability, rather than being a common vandal.
Yes, well i knew about the idea of a red link. But i think i remember a time where the template added was t+ or t- based on whether the target page existed or not. -- Jokes Free4Me 13:25, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Mglovesfun! I have noticed that you consider French verb forms ending in "ais", "ait" and "aient" as homophones to verb forms ending in "é" and "ai". Strictly they are not, and (AFAIK) the French wiktionary does not consider them as such either. Take a look, for example, to the IPA of zonai and zonais, or zonerai and zonerais. On the other end, in reality, the prononciation of both is often similar in day-to-day speech (at least in France), and it's not unusual to pronounce "j'irai" like "j'irais" for example. But despite most would consider "...ai" and "...ais" rhyme, I'd say they are not strictly homophones. — Xavier, 22:53, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
It's always a good idea to check incoming links when you delete something. A template used by half our Ancient Greek entries linked to this, and so we've had a lot of red links because of this. I've changed the template, so this situation should be resolved now, but something to keep in mind for the future. Cheers. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 02:09, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
Actually the real thing is, in my opinion and that of many scholars (Bèc, Linguistic atlasses), that is a vocal similar to Spanish or Greek for instance (but there are scholars who transcribe it as an open -o- (which is dubious since it is not as open as -ò-). Usually (and since Occitan has no real closed -o- the notation could be preferred, just as they do in the languages previously named). Sometimes I have tried to write that little sign but well it takes a lot of time for me to find it so I just do it this way. Let me know if you want me to fix it or just feel free to do it. Take care!Capsot 10:55, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
Thank you for moving Thai alphabet to Appendix:Thai alphabet.
John Cross 11:15, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
It was good! Just added the stress mark (which is really important in Occitan and other Romance languages...). Very good and interesting site, I didn't know it, thanks! I'm sure you'll speak Occitan pretty soon!!!Capsot 11:18, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi Mglovesfun
I have tried to explain my reasons for adding 1992 on the RFD page, I hope it is clear what my reasons are even if you still disagree. I have also commented on the general policy issue of including entries made up (only) of the digits 0 to 9 in the Beer Parlour.
Wiktionary:Requests_for_deletion#1992
John Cross 19:21, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
I'm not new to wikipedia but i am new to wictionary. How do i redirect pages on wikipedia to wiktionary? See on wikipedia how i tried to redirect "chuiwan" to wiktionary? Didn't work. User name one 17:20, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
Did you read the rfv page? Nobody replied there so nobody will reply on the rfd page either. --Makaokalani 14:51, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello Martin. Please can you throw an eye at affuter and affûter - both are affected by these 1990 spelling rectifications. Is there a Wiktionary link to these spelling rectifications - Wiktionary:French spelling rectifications, or similar? --Felonia 12:23, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello. I spent today making this bot. I think it works! I have used canaliser as the infinitive, and will test with others infinitves later. I've also used the {{also}}
template for some things, but I'm not so sure about this part. See canalises, and it looks badly formatted. --Rising Sun 15:16, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Hi there Mglovesfun, I left the following entry for you on Saturday/Sunday, only to find that, instead of responding, you simply deleted my comment!! I'd appreciate the courtesy of your response:
I happened to stumble on this phrase recently in the lyrics to song by the 60s British group The Scaffold. I wondered what it meant and consulted Wilkipedia AND Wiktionary. NO mention of the phrase in either place! However, after an hour or so I found several explanations and composted a Wiktionary entry. ONLY to find that you had deleted it for the rather astonishing reason that you felt it was "not dictionary material."
I take strong exception to that and cite Wiktionary's own criterion for inclusion:
That's what happened to me. And I see no "threshold" for "someone" that would suggest that a certain number of folks would need to try and post it before you allowed it to remain!!
While Wiktionary is not exactly the same as Wikipedia, there are many areas of overlap. Thus, while Wikipedia DOES have entires for The Scaffold and its members, the noun phrase "Aintree iron" is not mentioned or defined. While Wikipedia does contain many song references, they're almost always to the TITLES of songs/albums, NOT to specific, puzzling words and phrases.
The advantage of Wiktionary is that, unlike the OED and Merriam-Webster's Unabridged, there are no page limitations and neologisms can quickly be added.
Please leave the entry alone! Or at least make your comments, suggestions for improvement AT THE ENTRY! I know I'm not the only one who's wondered about the phrase. And being able to find an explantion of a word/phrase in a single, logical, FREE location is just what Wiktionary was created for!
By the way, you and your fellow admin destroyed several hours of work. I naturally assumed that you functioned much like Wikipedia and that any entry would be commented on and/or revised. NOT purged completely. I have never found it necessary to keep offline copies of my contributions because they could always be retrieve from the entry History. But you nullfied that my purging my entry. Please try to retrieve my entry from the system Trash and post it to my Talk page. Thanks. Cyberbot 01:08, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
This appears as a verb. However, I think you are mistaken. --Rising Sun 13:54, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
The "edit" that was undone was in fact a reversion that eliminated my edits just some several moments before. My additions, which are now shown, are correct and can be vouched for by citing a number of etymological resources. In any case, I'll simply say that phonetically speaking, batallia must FOLLOW battUallia (not precede it), and that the additional Gaulish information adds more to the etymology. You might instead ask the other person why they reverted my edits. Please revert it back or I'll do it for you. Flibjib8 16:47, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
{{term}}
and other templatesHi Mglovesfun. Please take note of the templates and other code used in presenting Ancient Greek etyma. Thanks. † ﴾(u):Raifʻhār (t):Doremítzwr﴿ 11:52, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
If you dispute the colloquial nature of using "increment" as a verb, then please supply the reference.--60.38.218.219 08:32, 24 August 2009 (UTC)