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Some of these already have articles, so I'll just queue them up for deletion with {{delete}}.
You could avoid these kind of mistakes by typing the word you want to add in a search box on the left - if it shows something when you hit ENTER, article already exists, and if it doesn't, click on the red wikilink in the first sentence and it will open up edit box in the main namespace (that is, without Category: or Wiktionary: prefix). Cheers --Ivan Štambuk 23:47, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
{{fy-verb}}Hi there, and thank you for your great work on Frisian! Can I please ask that instead of writing:
{{fy-verb|betelje|betellest|betellet|betelje|betelle|betelleste|betelle|betellen|beteljende|betelje|hawwe|betelle|pay}}
you write:
{{subst:fy-verb|betelje|betellest|betellet|betelje|betelle|betelleste|betelle|betellen|beteljende|betelje|hawwe|betelle|pay}}
This allows the many 'bots that Wiktionary uses to find the information in these pages. The same goes for every other template that adds headings. Thank you very much. Conrad.Irwin 15:05, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
{{fy-verb}} to include {{fy-conj}} and {{infl|fy|verb}} instead of writing these out in full. See you around. Conrad.Irwin 15:33, 6 February 2008 (UTC) (EDITED)
{{fy-verb}} that you created is a "preload" template, which means it fills in a lot of the things that you don't want to bother with (like headings) but that it should not be left in the article (it should be subst: instead). {{infl}} is an "inflection line" template, like the {{fy-pron}} - so you could create one that worked like {{en-verb}} if you wanted. Yours Conrad.Irwin 11:09, 7 February 2008 (UTC){{fy-pron}} does, but if it is a clone of {{en-pron}} then the documentation there should give you a clue. Conrad.Irwin 13:08, 7 February 2008 (UTC)Hi there! You're doing some great work. However, to fit with established practice here, the Category should not be ?Category:Saterland Frisian days but rather Category:stq:Days of the week. This fits in with others of the same type, eg Category:ang:Days of the week, Category:fy:Days of the week etc etc. Ƿidsiþ 13:13, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
Could you delete Category:Saterland_Frisian_months for me as well? Best regards--SK luuut 15:14, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
But Category:stq:Irregular verbs and stq:Verb forms should be named the other way. Categories by subject matter use lang: and categories by part of speech use Language. (Categories that are somewhere in between get debated. :-) )—msh210℠ 20:17, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
Hello, SK luuut,
Thank You for taking care of that. I got distracted and forgot, sort of assuming no one would notice anyway in that category. ;-) I couldn't be more pleased that I turned out to be wrong! So thank You for Your excellent contributions as well.
Best regards, Snakesteuben 19:31, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
At talk:boi a user as said that (deprecated template usage) boi is a West Frisian word meaning "boy", however from what I can tell the West Frisian word for "boy" is jonge. I don't speak the language and none of boi, boy, and jonge exist on the West Frisian wiktionary or wikipedia though so I'm not certain. As the most recently active speaker of West Frisian (who has a babel box on their user page), please could you comment there (talk:boi). Thank you. Thryduulf (talk) 00:19, 10 June 2010 (UTC)