User talk:SemperBlotto/2009

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 quite incredible reason "no usable content given."

I take strong exception to that and cite Wiktionary's own criterion for inclusion: A term should be included if it's likely that SOMEONE WOULD RUN ACROSS IT AND WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT MEANS. This in turn leads to the somewhat more formal guideline of including a term if it is attested and idiomatic." 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! Cyberbot 07:54, 17 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

• I am an inclusionist. We should have ALL words in ALL languages. Aintree Iron was deleted by me (and subsequently by someone else) because it had no usable content. Specifically it had no definition and was just a description of what it might conceivably mean. Feel free to add a properly formatted Citations page - and if you can find multiple uses across several years then feel free to add an entry - WITH A DEFINITION. SemperBlotto 08:17, 17 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

• • Well, thanks for the reply at least -- you colleague not only didn't bother replying but actually DELETED my question!! Not what I'd call very professional behavior for any sort of sysop or administrator.

As for your answer, well, the "definition" of the phrase "Aintree Iron" IS the description of what it means!! For example, if one wanted to know what the phrase "revved up like a deuce" in "Blinded by the Light" means, you wouldn't DEFINE the words "revved up" and "deuce" though you might well make mention of their meaning. Btw, this phrase DOES happen to be mentioned in Wikipedia under the song, though I don't really find it to be a "definition."

One could also speculate on what the phrase "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" means -- that's really the only "definition" one can offer. And that's part of what users are looking for! In my case, I had no clue what "Aintree Iron" might mean/refer to, and Wikipedia and Wiktionary were silent, ony offering info on the village of Aintree, England. I found a lot of interest and speculation elsewhere on the web and tried to distill that and offer a plausible definition. Like all entries, it's subject to revision if more info becomes available.

Thus, regading your comment about what something "might conceivably mean," sometimes that's the best one can come up with. NO dictionary is absolutely definitive -- and the only person who TRULY knows what he meant by this particular phrase is the author and maybe his band mates, and they're enjoying the guessing and not really talking! So, as in all encyclopedias and dictionaries, we have to make some best guesses.

So while I believe you when you say you're an inclusionist, I still have to quarrel with deleting an entry for the reasons you stated rather than offering commentary or modification of the entry itself, which is what usually happens on Wikipedia -- even malicious vandalism is often kept in the History. I'm sure Wiktionary would survive the presence of my very minor contribution, which I offered in the spirit of the project -- I wanted to know what something meant and, from my research, found others did as well. Thus while my format may have been somewhat irregular, the entry itself was totally in keeping with the spirit of the project.

Btw, you and your colleague also effectively destroyed all my work! Which is to say I never dreamed you'd PURGE the entry, so I didn't think it necessary to make a copy of it -- one can always find one's earlier work IF THE ENTRY IS ONLY MODIFIED. I think I noted that it took a few hours to research and compose that entry. Perhaps you can retrieve it from the Trash at your end and post it to my Talk section? Thanks Cyberbot 00:51, 18 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

I took the liberty of e-mailing a copy of the last version of the "Aintree Iron" article. It is far from being dictionary material. Perhaps we need to examine what a literal-minded user can take from some of our rhetoric. DCDuring TALK 01:50, 18 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, but nothing ever arrived. So if you could post it to my Talk page, maybe I can actually get it back. Btw, how did you happen to have a copy of the last version? As for "literal-minded user," that almost seems like a shot. I explained all my reasons. What I have yet to get is an actual, remotely convincing, answer that explains why "it is far from being dictionary material." Perhaps what you REALLY need are some very specific illustrations of what you consider "dictionary material" and what you do not. As far as most readers/users are concerned, "dictionary material" is any word or phrase you want explained, even if only by way of, as Semper Blotto notes above,, a "descripton". Cyberbot 21:53, 18 August 2009 (UTC

I sent it to whatever e-mail address is on record for your username at your home WMF project. DCDuring TALK 22:29, 18 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

Happy New Year! User:Robert Ullmann/Italiano is this useful? I did the bulk of the work to get Swahili lists I need, modifying it for Italian was just a bit of fun. What do you think? Robert Ullmann 15:51, 3 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Very good. They do use a lot of English words don't they. You will probably generate them much faster than I can fill them (I'll tell Barmar). SemperBlotto 15:57, 3 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

p.s. I have had a look at the current front pages of those in the Wikipedia list and just copy/pasted/wikified them (losing capital letters) and am currently adding the words that are not hmtl junk etc. p.p.s. I assume you have some method of getting rid of all the placenames and personal names.

You should hear Swahili in Kenya, where English words are very frequently used when the speaker can't retrieve the Swahili. (Unlike Tanzania, which only uses Swahili as its official language, not both, and where the speakers probably can't recall the English any more easily.) Sometimes conversations are a continuous mix ...

English words that tend to keep showing up can be added to User:Robert Ullmann/Italiano/stops and won't appear after that; that list can then be looked at for words that might be considered to have been borrowed and assimilated.

I don't collect words that are capitalized, so don't pick up names. On the other hand, that also skips ordinary words at the start of a sentence. I also thought that when the list picked up verb forms (and noun/adjective declensions) you would have more 'bot food. Robert Ullmann 17:08, 3 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hello SemperBlotto -- I just created the above entry, which includes my best guess at the {{cricket}} sense. I notice that you created the entry for leg break and other cricket terms. Would you mind taking a look at leg-breaker and fleshing out the cricket sense? The game is just hopelessly incomprehensible for most of us North Americans. Thanks -- WikiPedant 19:54, 5 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Done. (Ditto baseball and American football) SemperBlotto 20:01, 5 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Ah, much better. Many thanks. -- WikiPedant 05:42, 6 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Buongiorno. How would you translate them in a sport or more specifically soccer context? It's when a player becomes part of a team. I've translated tesserare as to sign but now I'm not sure. To enroll doesn't seem appropriate. Here's some examples "Ma Thiago Silva potrà giocare con il Milan solo dal prossimo campionato, considerato che in questa la società rossonera non lo può tesserare non avendo posto per altri extracomunitari. " "Il tecnico smentisce la notizia del tesseramento di Giannichedda, ex centrocampista di Udinese, Lazio e Juventus." "Intanto l'Internacional attende i documenti per definire il trasferimento del tesserato, per cui il Lecce dovrà sborsare circa 2,5 milioni di euro." Any ideas? --Barmar 10:28, 7 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• I've made a few small tweaks - but I think that this is as close as we can get. SemperBlotto 10:56, 7 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
  • Grazie 1000 --Barmar 13:18, 7 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
    • Usually it would be sign on

The vote at Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2008-12/User:Vahagn Petrosyan for admin ended last week but I don’t think anybody has notified a bureaucrat to act on it yet. Please have a look. —Stephen 07:12, 8 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Done. SemperBlotto 17:31, 8 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

I noticed that you deleted undictionaried. I think, despite the best efforts of its contributor, it does indeed meet CFI. A quick check on books.g.c shows a plethora of usable citations with precisely the meaning given in the entry. It seems to me that this should be restored. —Leftmostcat 17:24, 8 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• You do indeed seem to be correct. It's not in the OED - so seems to be a self-defining term. I've written it from scratch. SemperBlotto 17:30, 8 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

I recently noticed that you deleted this entry, but I do not know what was there prior to the deletion. Now I bestowed upon it a usable content, but I would like to ask whether in the previous content there was something mentioning Danish or abbreviation? Bogorm 16:43, 9 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Previous content was - Måten Torgeir skriver forkorting SemperBlotto 16:46, 9 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

It is of no avail to the actual meaning. Bogorm 16:56, 9 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, i'm not a vandal, it was an error to create the article rosegaire. Jironi, from the occitan wikiccionari.

Thanks for your adivise, I'll do the necessary changes.Sanfy (talk)

Hello. You blocked me when I defined asterix as a common misspelling of asterisk Why? — This comment was unsigned.

• No you didn't. You added it to Asterix. SemperBlotto 11:44, 12 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• and it was some IP, not your login; when reverted, the IP just did it again... your login has never been blocked. (and please sign talk page comments) Robert Ullmann 11:50, 12 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• • Yes, I logged in after. And yes, I added it to Asterix, but if someone searches for asterix (thinking that it is the correct spelling for asterisk) then it will take them to Asterix.

• • • PS How do I sign on an Italian keyboard? There is no tilde.

If you are using Italian-141 (probably), it is AltGr + key 12 (first row, right of "0", has a ' and ? on it), if you are using Italian-142, then AltGr + key 28 (second row, last key before "enter", should have + and * on it). Robert Ullmann 14:01, 16 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• • • • Thanks. It's a year-old macbook and I found it as AltGr + key 3 Gregcaletta 22:06, 20 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Wasn't sure if you were aware of this cat (or had forgotten about it). There are a few words in here, if you have the time and motivation. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 00:38, 13 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Would you mind promoting an elected admin? Thanks.—msh210℠ 20:20, 13 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

It looks from the log like you promoted User:Daniel by mistake. Conrad.Irwin 22:14, 13 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• OOPS. SemperBlotto 22:17, 13 January 2009 (UTC)Reply
  • I've sent an email to User:Jusjih. (steward). SemperBlotto 22:21, 13 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Ok, thanks. Heh, why do people have random dots in their usernames ;) Conrad.Irwin 22:23, 13 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Could you please request it on m:SRP#Removal_of_access because of transparency issues? Thanks! Regards, DerHexer 22:30, 13 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Lol...what should I do with this? Mainpage deletion looks good! (j/k) :) Daniel 22:30, 13 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Please do not delete the Main Page while you enjoy my administrator rights. Thank you for your attention. --Daniel. 12:17, 14 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• All sorted. No damage done. Must get my eyes checked. SemperBlotto 22:52, 13 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

I have received your email 4 hours ago, but I was not available while I already find the wrong promotion reversed. I wonder if we should have a policy regarding this kind of potentially confusing user name. It may mislead.--Jusjih 02:46, 14 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

While I did ponder about the potentially confusing final dot when I registered, I think my user name is actually very simple. I guess it is the first time someone makes a mistake about removing the dot when referring directly to me, and the first time I saw this dotless user Daniel showing a sign of life; both assumptions can be confirmed by his almost empty talk page and What Links Here. Anyway, if there is a discussion about preventing "this kind" of user name, I would probably oppose for personal reasons while waiting for acceptance of whoever feels uncomfortable with this situation. --Daniel. 12:17, 14 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

For what it's worth, I have no objection to your username; I'll put a disclaimer on this userpage to say that I'm not the English Wiktionary administrator, to avoid any potential confusion from others. Daniel 12:39, 22 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

PS: I'm very alive on other projects (enwp, m, otrswiki etc.), and have this username by virtue of SUL. Daniel 12:42, 22 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

It's just a guess. Please give a look at it and correct if necessary. Buona giornata. --Barmar 07:25, 16 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• I was going to say that the English word is telesales - but I'm not sure if that means the same as telemarketing (i.e by phone rather than TV) - investigation continues . . . SemperBlotto 08:38, 16 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi Jeff. Where did you get the etymology of this one from? I can't seem to verify it. Ƿidsiþ 13:15, 16 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Strange as it may seem, I can't remember what I was doing in Feb 2005! It's not in the OED. Answers.com has "Possibly from North African Arabic būḥibab, fruit of many seeds, from Arabic ’abū ḥibāb, source of seeds : ’ab, father, source + ḥibāb, pl. of ḥabb, seed." Maybe that's where I was looking. SemperBlotto 15:14, 16 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

It was I who added the extra definition to "one's" earlier today that you seem to have deleted.

Try "one's a bit" on Google; 215,000+ hits. Try "one's a lot"; 20,800+ hits.

I'll leave in in your hands. Phil Last 19:19, 19 January 2009 (UTC)phil lastReply

If you get a moment, could you please re-format this entry? Conrad.Irwin 14:58, 21 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Done. SemperBlotto 15:02, 21 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi, could you resotre my entry and move it to polite architecture. Sorry about the misspelling. ~~

• No. It was badly formatted and was written in such poor English that it didn't make any sense. SemperBlotto 17:15, 22 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Though I don't care much for what I've done, I'm curious as to why you've decided to delete the circumambages page? Is it because you don't have an unabridged dictionary? What is the reason for it? -- --Ambrosiaster 18:15, 22 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• At first I though it was a "dictionary word" - i.e. one with mentions in dictionaries but no usages in the real world. However, Google books shows me to have been wrong. Restored. Needs some work though - "an instance" can't define a plural noun, can it? SemperBlotto 22:11, 22 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Yes, you're correct. It was an error. I've changed it to 'instances'. --Ambrosiaster 03:08, 23 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi SB,

I just want to make sure you see the "Leftmostcat for admin" vote, which passed unanimously a few days ago, but hasn't yet been implemented. :-)

—Ruakh_TALK 19:21, 22 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! —Ruakh_TALK 22:56, 22 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the tip. Wasn't aware of the difference so I typically avoided rollback. Will do in future. —Leftmostcat 22:11, 25 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Mr. Knaggs why was the major revision to "Money" immediately deleted? Did you check the reference material at the bottom? If it is simply an issue of format structure I would be happy to restructure it.

--2share 19:43, 30 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Yes - you totally destroyed all formatting. SemperBlotto 19:57, 30 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Can you be more specific? What was wrong with it? --2share 23:16, 30 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hello, friend! Have a peek at this: I wanted to add ruthenate, but it wasn't clear whether it was a "salt" or an "ester" or something else. I don't understand chemistry. You have worked in this field, so you should add this word. My thanks. Equinox 02:12, 31 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi again. You might like to check out the anon edit to this entry. I have no idea if it is correct, but I think not, judging from recent history. You are probably better at this sort of decision than I. Cheers. -- ALGRIF talk 14:39, 31 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

• I must admit that I thought it was vandalism. But he was correct. The OED has this spelling as "erroneous" - I've fixed it. SemperBlotto 17:05, 31 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

I am wondering why you deleted my entry for the word holdem, a word which is in use the world over and growing in usage?

I notice that Wiktionary has an entry for Texas hold 'em. Therefore there should be links for the words holdem, hold em and hold’em, all of which are now in more popular usage these days than those words with the prefix Texas.

I will go ahead and create those links, but first let me know how you feel about such links.

I need your help to do this. What I want to do is when the word holdem is submitted to Wiktionary then the user is redirected to Texas hold 'em. It would help if you can tell me how to write a page for that, or better still, direct me to such a page so I can use it for a template.

Thx.

btw. I have just googled holdem -texas. Google gives 20 million references to the stand-alone word holdem. — This comment was unsigned.

• OK - I have created an entry for hold'em - you could use that as a model for other spellings if you want. SemperBlotto 08:41, 1 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I'm new here. I transwiki'd an article to wiktionary from wikipedia per guidance there. The entry I wrote cited numerous examples of the term's usage over the last two years. You deleted the entry (without even the courtesy of a heads-up on my talk page)- and yet wingnutosphere, which I linked from the entry I wrote, and which cites only a single usage by one blogger, remained until I deleted it just now on the grounds that any neutral criterion that could justify deleting my entry must a fortiori demand its deletion too. Can you explain why you deleted the entry and what the process for contesting the deletion is? Simon Dodd 19:06, 1 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Delete reasons lost following short-term memory failure. Now sent to RfV. SemperBlotto 22:36, 1 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

I tried to look up some of these. ceratitis (properly Ceratitis) is a fruit fly genus; glycolylneuraminic only seems to appear in n-glycolylneuraminic acid, a sialic acid in mammalian cells; and I suppose phosphoregulation is the regulation of phosphorylation, but I'm not sure. Equinox 02:15, 2 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

polyclone appears to have been coined in a paper by Crick and Lawrence (1975) and refers to certain types of protein compartment; one source said "the sum of all the cells descended from each of a set of founder cells". Perhaps you can get a copy of that paper. Equinox 02:22, 2 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hello SemperBlotto -- To my surprise, the unabridged Random House Dictionary does provide a distinct sense of "abnormal" as "extremely or excessively large" and gives the same e.g. the Wiktionary entry had -- abnormal profits. The OED, however, sees it your way and recognizes no such distinct sense. I'm inclined to agree with you and the OED. Usages equivalent to "large" strike me as no more than instances of the broader sense given in our defn1. -- WikiPedant 03:48, 2 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Yes, if it was up to me (which it isn't) I would define it just as the single line "not normal", and then define "normal" a bit more rigorously. SemperBlotto 08:00, 2 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi there. What are the deletion templates for this Wiktionary (quick deletion). Thanks, Razorflame 17:48, 5 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Quick deleteion is {{delete}}. Otherwise, see Category:Deletion templates. Not deletion templates, but related, are in Category:Verification templates.—msh210℠ 18:32, 5 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Ok, thanks! Cheers, Razorflame 18:42, 5 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I'm new and I was wondering why you reverted my edit on smush. N3trunner 19:17, 5 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Because it wasn't using the proper pronunciation characters. SemperBlotto 19:54, 5 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi there. While it's not a bot on this wiki (currently), it is a SUL account for a bot which is currently in use on three other wikis, including a wiktionary. It's largely a placeholder here and all it's done is edit its own userpage and fix a template. I'm surprised it warranted a block, even a procedural one. Could you possibly unblock, pretty-please? - Alison ^❤ 06:48, 6 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hey Alison. I think one of the reasons your account caught an admin's attention in the first place was the edit it made to that template. It's a simple misunderstanding, but you actually weren't fixing it. All three-letter templates are reserved as language codes. "bot" is the three-letter code for the Bongo language, which is why it says that.

In any case, Jeff, Alison is a very established and trusted admin (and more) on other projects, so I think the account can be safely unblocked without causing any trouble. She's not up to any mischief. ;-) I'll wait for you before doing anything though. Dmcdevit·t 07:33, 6 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

OK - unblocked. But it will need the normal vote before it gets bot status. SemperBlotto 08:14, 6 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, Jeff, and thanks, Dmcdevit (for that vote of confidence :) ). I'm not sure if the bot will ever be active here - it's just on various Gaelic wikis right now - but having it blocked would pretty-much ensure it would never. Sorry about the misunderstanding over the template, too. I've just learnt about the existence of a language I'd not heard of before. Thanks again for the unblock - Alison ^❤ 08:56, 6 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

I just added some explanatory text to the template page, non-transcluded, so people won't do that again, hopefully - Alison ^❤ 09:09, 6 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi SemperBlotto,

I wrote a Python script for Icqgirl, which she started testing as IcqBOT. A bot flag has not been requested yet, because she didn't know about it and because she was still doing a test run. I unblocked the account and I'm going to try and restore the User page and Talk page. She's probably going to test the script further under her own account for the moment. --Polyglot 14:35, 6 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

• OK - but the user page needs to be a proper one. SemperBlotto 14:40, 6 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Greetings Semperblotto,
Hope you won't mind, but I'm wondering if the Change username requests should be delegated to the stewards? The steward page says they only handle wikis "without active bureaucrats", but I guess it's a local decision whether the requests are handled locally or left to stewards. --Jmkfi 16:25, 6 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

• You just need to give me a prod from time to time. SemperBlotto 17:17, 6 February 2009 (UTC)Reply
  • But then we have to know the fine distinction between giving a prod and pestering the bureaucrats :-) All right, thanks SB. --Jmk 18:15, 6 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Is it a mistake that it says the singular is lanciatora instead of lanciatore? Caladon 15:52, 7 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Fixed. (You could have done it yourself) SemperBlotto 15:54, 7 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Why did you block an IP address for stupidity? That is definitely not an appropriate use of the block tool as someone could be stupid in real life, yet still be a perfectly good editor here. I am just left wondering as to your judgement here. Razorflame 22:20, 7 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

I'd assume stupidity refers to foolish or inappropriate behaviour on Wiktionary, given its stated rules and policies, and isn't an attack on the person. Equinox 22:23, 7 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

I would much rather have seen him state that instead of stupidity, as it could potentially be degrading. Definitely makes me question this users' judgement. Razorflame 22:25, 7 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Stupidity does essentially state that: behaviours, as well as people, can have the trait of stupidity. I didn't see the specific block you're talking about, but do you dispute that it was stupid (ill-considered, poorly chosen) behaviour? Otherwise this just seems like overblown political correctness. Equinox 23:09, 7 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Yes, I supposed that that is what you mean, however, I still don't see why he couldn't have written as the block reason poor or ill behavior instead of stupidity. I won't be aruging about it much more, but I just wanted to point this out. Razorflame 01:37, 9 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

It's one of the standard block reasons on Wiktionary. We removed it from the list once, but people still used it, so it got added back (I think). Stupidity is a more precise description than "poor behaviour", as it is often used to block people who are doing idiotic things; "poor behaviour" is too generic; while vandalism is poor behaviour, it isn't stupidity, it's deliberately malicious. Conrad.Irwin 01:46, 9 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for clearing this up. Never mind about this discussion, then. Cheers, Razorflame 01:49, 9 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Good evening. Could you perhaps do something about this? He seems quite insistent on restoring his spam whenever it is removed. ] Equinox 22:41, 7 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Cheers, appreciated. Equinox 23:09, 7 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi!

• 16:30, 7 February 2009 Ivan Štambuk (Talk | contribs | block) blocked SemperBlotto (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of 1 day (account creation disabled) ‎ (Disruptive edits) (unblock | change block)

This was, as you probably assume, an error. Sorry for that.. --Ivan Štambuk 23:37, 8 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

• That's what I assumed - so said nothing (there's far too much talk here). SemperBlotto 07:53, 9 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi. I would like to know the reason for this revert. --Vahagn Petrosyan 20:24, 18 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

• I don't know - perhaps I hit the wrong button (or the right button on the wrong line). Re-reverted. SemperBlotto 22:09, 18 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Why do you keep reverting K9? 88.112.208.29 13:05, 20 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Because I couldn't find any confirmation of that sense. If you add it again, you will need to provide a proper citation from a published source. SemperBlotto 15:27, 20 February 2009 (UTC)Reply
  • I have never encountered the term in a book (is that what you mean?), but not many words have citations from "published sources" (for example example). I have mostly heard that word being used in real life. Definition in an online dictionary , Google search ("k9 zoophilia") with 393k pages found 88.112.208.29 17:28, 21 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Read WT:CFI. It doesn't "have" to be a printed book. Conrad.Irwin 17:31, 21 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

My question is this: What is the template for when you either don't know what the etymology of a word is, or you can't find out? Thanks, Razorflame 16:00, 20 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

{{rfe}}. Category:Request templates. Conrad.Irwin 16:05, 20 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

• We don't do barnstars here. You want {{etystub}}. SemperBlotto 16:13, 20 February 2009 (UTC) (and p.s. I'd rather you didn't add Italian plurals - it confuses the bot (or rather its owner))Reply

• The ps could be slightly construed as WP:OWN, but I'm not that concerned about it. Ok then, I won't add those kinds of stubs. Cheers, Razorflame 23:22, 20 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

  Thanks for the help on agarite as well :). Cheers, Razorflame 23:38, 20 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Ciao. Mi puoi benvenutare? Grazie. --Ivocamp96 14:59, 21 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Ciao yourself! Always good to have more Italian help. User:Barmar is our resident expert, and I am taking a short break from Italian to concentrate on more technical English words. And, hmm!, I suppose benvenutare could be a verb - but I'm not convinced. Cheers SemperBlotto 15:22, 21 February 2009 (UTC)Reply
  • Benvenutare couldn't a verb .It's invented xD. --Ivocamp96 16:01, 28 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

I find your edit of the entry "freshwater" puzzling, because to my ear it would sound odd to say: "Lake Huron is a freshwater". I think the Wikipedia article on freshwater is messing things up. It says in the beginning that "Freshwater is a word that refers to bodies of water..", but a little bit further down there's another definition: "Freshwater is defined as water with less than 0.5 parts per thousand dissolved salts". This is pretty close to Wiktionary's definition of fresh water and that sounds correct to me. I tried to find examples of "freshwater" being used in the sense "body of fresh water" but couldn't find any. If I'm right, then the noun sense of "freshwater" should rather be defined as an alternative spelling of "fresh water". --Hekaheka 20:13, 21 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Hmm, I arrived here via the plural (deprecated template usage) freshwaters - see User:Visviva/Science 20090220 for a usage of what seems to refer to bodies of water. SemperBlotto 22:18, 21 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

I assure you I have no intention of using Wiktionary as a vanity page, and it's very cheeky of you to suggest that. You could have approached me directly, via email, but instead you made remarks on my page about my intentions, which, with respect, you can't know. I am removing your 'vanitypage' template, and trust you won't be tempted to come back and revert it. DavidFarmbrough 23:08, 22 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

• No prob. Glad to see you back since your last edit in 2006. SemperBlotto 08:03, 23 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi!! Just thank you so so much for change my membership... I'm honoured! I really hope to contibute always correctly and helpfully. Cheers! =) Pharamp 18:51, 25 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Why did you say 'jivan mukti' and 'para mukti' with spaces are 'bad redirects?' Even some authors from India also spell them with spaces.--Dchmelik 04:59, 27 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Did you read the "bad redirect" link? We don't use them much - every term gets its own entry. In this case as an alternative spelling. SemperBlotto 07:57, 27 February 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi SB. I just hit a problem. I put senderismo as a translation of hiking. But of course, hiking this is a past part. or gerund, not a noun (or is it?) The problem is that the only way to say senderismo is with some form of go plus the -ing activity. What's the best solution for these go + -ing activities, d'you think? -- ALGRIF talk 16:15, 2 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

OK I just saw your solution. -- ALGRIF talk 16:18, 2 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

I'm fairly new to Wiktionary and it's processes, but it seems to me that class break is not a protologism as it is defined in policy, since it has been used by multiple independent authors it is rather a neologism. The errors in formatting were most likely because I'm experienced with Wikipedia, the citation etc templates are different. If you'd restore the article, I can work on the entry until it is suitable in my userspace. If I've misunderstood the policy, I apologize. ffm 17:34, 2 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

• OK - I've written it from scratch, after a bit of further digging. SemperBlotto 19:45, 2 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

I noticed that this user's contributions are to be removed. I presume that the main problem is definition copyvio. Would it address the problem to substitute {{defn|en}} for the WorldWideWords definitions? Should the References header be removed as well? DCDuring TALK 16:03, 3 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

These are definitely nouns, not proper nouns. It doesn't matter that they start with a capital letter. SemperBlotto 11:14, 7 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

But it's a particular strain of flu, and a particular pandemic. It's like a named hurricane, by analogy, no? So it's a proper name? 76.66.193.90 11:17, 7 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

I've started a discussion in the "Tea Room". SemperBlotto 11:30, 7 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi. What are Wikisaurus? I've read but I don't understand. --Ivocamp96 15:23, 7 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

• It's the section of Wiktionary that is supposed to function as a thesaurus. I don't have anything to do with it. SemperBlotto 15:25, 7 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Great, that you (re-)created the entry, but why did you tag it as UK? In MW online, when the word is chiefly British, it is tagged as such (e. g. here), but on their entry for bridewell there was no such tag. Should we ask someone from the USA? The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 15:43, 7 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

• By all means. But I read quite a bit of US crime novels and have never seen the word used there. But there again you never hear it much these days in the UK. (My sister used to work in "the Bridewell" in Bristol). SemperBlotto 15:47, 7 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Good point. I changed the second definition to # (geometry) A position directly opposite (possibly also used figuratively).

Does the parenthetic comment about figuratively (like a political position) fit witht he context tag of geometry? I added a related term section with the word antipolar but it's not defined yet. RJFJR 17:16, 7 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Hmm. antipolar seems to have several rather technical uses. I'll try to have a think about it later. SemperBlotto 17:20, 7 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi there SemperBlotto. It has come to my attention that you block users after only a single bad edit. I find this to be bordering on misuse of the tool. The block tool was made so that you block users and IPs who continue to vandalize after the first edit. It was not meant to block users after one bad edit. If you applied that rule of blocking every user after only a single bad edit, you wouldn't have any editors on here, because they would all be blocked. I find it very concerning that you block users after only one bad edit and I am very close to motioning that you be desysopped, because of the misuse of the blocking tool. I don't care if you have a lot more experience here than me; that does not matter in this case. If need be, I will get the community involved in this, as I find it highly concerning that an administrator here is blocking users after only a single bad faith edit. Thanks, Razorflame 14:29, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Excellent idea! Get me desysopped and I'll have lots more time to build the dictionary. Of course, all the other sysops will have twice as much work to do. Give it a go. SemperBlotto 14:34, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

  I am finding your attitude very inappropriate and that definitely is not the kind of attitude that i want to see out of an administrator. Razorflame 14:36, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

• We all routinely block IPs that are obviously not here to contribute, often after a single "bad edit". Note that we are not talking about someone misguidedly trying to fix or add something, we are talking about changing or adding pages to say "so and so is gay and ". We see this crap all day long, and the blocks are absolute routine so that we have time to work on useful things. We don't coddle and encourage vandals like the pedia. Robert Ullmann 14:49, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

  It doesn't matter what the local policy here is. This is abuse of the block tool. I don't care if they aren't here to build a dictionary; this is not how I want to see administrators act on this site. Razorflame 14:52, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

  It is not abuse, it is community POLICY. We don't coddle clear vandals. The block tool is being used for exactly what it is intended, to prevent further vandalism temporarily so that less clean up is needed. It is being used appropriately by and for this community. 15:00, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

I have requested you for comment at meta:Requests for comment/Sysop abuse on the English Wiktionary. Razorflame 14:55, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Now that is seriously out of line. Robert Ullmann 15:00, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

No, it is not. This user is abusing his sysop tools, and therefore, I have requested him for comment. Razorflame 15:02, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Have you got nothing better to do with your time? Maybe add a few more plurals? SemperBlotto 15:05, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

SemperBlotto, with all respect, you should not address other people like that. Razorflame found a policy to be a problem, and he should have all rights to criticise the current policy without being asked if he doesn't have some plurals to add. Remember, communication here is not verbal, and it's very hard to understand underlying humour/sarcasm/meanings. --Eivind (t) 15:33, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Razorflame (above) did not ask about the use or about policy, he proceeded directly to threats. Snark is the right, just, and proper response to trolls. Robert Ullmann 15:54, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

This is uncalled for. Calling an established editor a troll is wrong and something unseemly from an administrator. You should know better than to call people names. Whatever happened to w:en:WP:NPA? Razorflame 15:56, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

I would like to formally apologize for any drama that I might have caused, and I would therefore like to say that I am sorry for any PAs that I might have made on you. Thanks, Razorflame 16:48, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hello again, friend! I take your point that a few of my biochemical definitions left something to be desired. Since I don't have a deep understanding of the subject, I have to go by what I can pick up from other online resources (often but not always Wikipedia); where I can't piece together a correct definition, I won't add a word, but I do — though infrequently — add certain entries in unfamiliar fields that are accurate but a bit wishy-washy. My feeling is that (i) barring outright errors, it's good to have a start on as many words as we can, and (ii) somebody more knowledgeable will inevitably come along and tidy them up, even if it takes a year or two — just as I have done with the occasional computer-science entry. Does that sound reasonable? Equinox ◑ 22:44, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

• OK - considering the very large number of dowright awful definitions we have, I can live with that. SemperBlotto 22:46, 10 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Per vote, would you mind flipping the appropriate switch?—msh210℠ 18:56, 11 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Could you create this entry? Thanks. Nadando 22:57, 13 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Tomorrow (when I've figured out what it is!) SemperBlotto 22:59, 13 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi Jeff,

Here are the pronunciations of the letters of the Italian alphabet, if you want to add them. By the way, Italian also has its own "A for apple" scheme for distinguishing letters, a bit like the NATO phonetic alphabet; for example, "A come Ancona". I wonder if it is worth having entries for these too? — Paul G 09:48, 15 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Update: I see at ICAO spelling alphabet that we have appendices for languages' own phonetic alphabets, so Ancona et al could go into Appendix:Italian phonetic alphabet. — Paul G 09:59, 15 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

• IPA^(key): /a/, Template:X-SAMPA

Ancona

• IPA^(key): /bi/, Template:X-SAMPA

Bologna

• IPA^(key): /tʃi/, Template:X-SAMPA

Como

• IPA^(key): /di/, Template:X-SAMPA

Domodossola

• IPA^(key): /e/, Template:X-SAMPA

Empoli

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛffe/, Template:X-SAMPA

Firenze

• IPA^(key): /dʒi/, Template:X-SAMPA

Genova

• IPA^(key): /ˈakka/, Template:X-SAMPA

hotel

• IPA^(key): /i/, Template:X-SAMPA

Imola

• IPA^(key): /iˈlunga/ replace g with ɡ, invalid IPA characters (g), Template:X-SAMPA

Jersey

• IPA^(key): /ˈkappa/, Template:X-SAMPA

Kursaal

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛlle/, Template:X-SAMPA

Livorno

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛmme/, Template:X-SAMPA

Milano

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛnne/, Template:X-SAMPA

Napoli

• IPA^(key): /ɔ/, Template:X-SAMPA

Otranto

• IPA^(key): /pi/, Template:X-SAMPA

Padova

• IPA^(key): /ku/, Template:X-SAMPA

Quarto

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛrre/, Template:X-SAMPA

Roma

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛsse/, Template:X-SAMPA

Savona

• IPA^(key): /ti/, Template:X-SAMPA

Taranto

• IPA^(key): /u/, Template:X-SAMPA

Udine

• IPA^(key): /vu/, Template:X-SAMPA or IPA^(key): /vi/, Template:X-SAMPA

Venezia

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔppjovu/, Template:X-SAMPA

Washington

• IPA^(key): /iks/, Template:X-SAMPA

Xeres

• IPA^(key): /ˈipsilon/, Template:X-SAMPA

yacht

• IPA^(key): /ˈdzɛta/, Template:X-SAMPA

Zara

The characters unique to APL (as opposed to those that also occur in other fields, such as mathematics) are in Unicode's User:Equinox/Unicode/Miscellaneous_Technical block. I have never used APL, but flicking through some online manuals gave me enough information to create the entries for about a third of them. Equinox ◑ 13:48, 17 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Thanks. Of course, they only display as blank squares on my screen. SemperBlotto 15:13, 17 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

This font has them: Probably need to mess around in the browser to override the font selected by Wikimedia's default stylesheet, though. Equinox ◑ 15:32, 17 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

The vote has been started, now that I've finally figured out that nifty transclusion thing, and is over in WT:V.  :) --Neskaya kanetsv 01:20, 19 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Just to explain the nature of my change to your entry: I think that where, as is not uncommon, some Internet service provider example.com offers subdomains to its users (equinox.example.com), those would be regarded as subsites, even though they aren't folders off the domain root. (In fact, I think you might even be able to call a subsidiary part of your own Web site a "subsite", e.g. "my song lyrics subsite", but I'm not going to research that now!) Equinox ◑ 23:23, 19 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

To be fair, I'm informing you of Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2009-03/User:Equinox for admin.—msh210℠ 17:48, 23 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

I'm trying to get a bot up and running to tackle some of the seemingly endless forms of Lithuanian participles, but my technical skills aren't particularly hot, so I don't completely know what I should be doing. I've tried to edit some codes used by other inflection-adding bots, so that before I get to the big project of those participle forms I can test my bot-operating skills on simple nouns - and this is what I have so far:

• User:Opiaterein/lt.txt/noun-a-1
• User:Opiaterein/ltfromfile

But past that, I'm like a lost child :D Could you give me a pointer or two, or as many as I need to get myself running? — opiaterein — 22:39, 23 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

• See User:SemperBlottoBot for an outline of the difficulties that I had in getting started. First you have to download all the software. Have you done that yet? SemperBlotto 22:45, 23 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Yep, Conrad helped me with that just a bit ago. But he suggested I talk to you about how to do batch-uploads. — opiaterein — 23:23, 23 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

In the python folder/directory on your PC you need to create a file called user-config.py that looks like this . . .

mylang='en'
family='wiktionary'
usernames='SemperBlottoBot' <= put your bot's name here
console_encoding = 'utf-8'
put_throttle = 4

The software uses this file to log in (you will get a prompt for a password at first).

In the same folder/directory create a file named lt.txt - this file gets reused with the data for the word you are currently working on. Copy all the text from one of your master files into this file, change all ? to the stem of the word you are working on and save it. DO NOT ACCIDENTLY CHANGE YOUR MASTER FILE (keep a backup). Run your bot program (either by double clicking it, or via "Edit with IDLE" followed by "Run". SemperBlotto 08:39, 24 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Good morning. How would you translate this? . Some examples: Se non hai successo come artista, puoi sempre riciclarti come gallerista o critico d'arte. Dopo essere stato espulso dalla polizia, si è riciclato come investigatore privato. Thanks.--Barmar 06:32, 25 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Well (deprecated template usage) recycle oneself is obviously wrong. We often use (deprecated template usage) redefine oneself in this context. So . . . "If you do not have success as an artist, you can always redefine yourself as a connoisseur or art critic."

However, "After being expelled by the police, he redefined himself as a private investigator." doesn't seem right. We would just say "he became . .". SemperBlotto 08:11, 25 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

"Reinvent" might be used in some of these contexts as well. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 08:25, 25 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Yes! - That's the word I was struggling to remember. SemperBlotto 08:27, 25 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Ok, thank you both. --Barmar 20:14, 25 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

What is the similar term for how a steak should be cooked (pink in the middle) - is it (deprecated template usage) au point? fr.wiktionary does not have that meaning. SemperBlotto 11:38, 25 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

• That's à point -- the equivalent to medium in English. Ƿidsiþ 12:15, 25 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

I posted a bot request at WT:BP#Bot flag request for User:Mzajacbot, and there's no objection in a week. Would you set the bot flag? Thanks. —Michael Z. 2009-03-25 18:54 z

• Done. SemperBlotto 19:51, 25 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
  • Thank you! —Michael Z. 2009-03-25 19:54 z

Bot appears to have been turned on (which I suppose if pretty reasonable, seeing as the vote has passed, even if it hasn't yet been bureaucratically actuated). However, if you could make it so we don't have to watch, I think everyone would appreciate it. Thanks boss. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 06:36, 26 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

I have added the Latin and corrected the "Translingual". Species epithets are only used as words informally in English. They are not used this way in other languages, because people who speak other languages know better. The species epithet is technically as adjective, and so is not a species "name" so much as a description. --EncycloPetey 18:46, 28 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for your fast reply in the entry ship. I'm a bit afraid of writing explanations in English since my grammar may not be correct. That's why I usually ask things on talk pages. Thanks again --Ferike333 10:47, 29 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Apparently we must have added Template:speedy and Template:rfv simultaneously. I still support its deletion and have stated my reasons there. The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 07:36, 31 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

• OK - I wasn't sure if the French maybe had introduced a version of Arabic written in the latin script. Cheers. SemperBlotto 08:20, 31 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

On what basis?—msh210℠ 16:43, 31 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

• I've never seen them do a bad edit. (and I spend too much time marking edits as patrolled) SemperBlotto 16:44, 31 March 2009 (UTC)Reply
  • Fair enough. There is as you know well a process, but I'm all for w:WP:SNOW.—msh210℠ 16:46, 31 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi!! Thanks for the change the flag!!!! Thanks!!! Very thanks :)))))))) --Ivocamp96 13:16, 1 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

• But as soon as I made the change you edited scientifici to make it look like the plural of an English noun! SemperBlotto 13:18, 1 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

I've looked yes :) --Ivocamp96 13:23, 1 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

If you get a second could you add a bot flag per Wiktionary:Votes/bt-2009-03/User:Opiaterein Inflectobot for bot status. Thanks. Conrad.Irwin 21:24, 2 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hey there. Noticed you're active, could you please promote User:EivindJ to admin as per Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2009-03/User:EivindJ_for_admin? Thank you~ —Neskaya kanetsv 19:35, 3 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

• let me catch up on all the crap that's hit the fan since I was last logged on. SemperBlotto 19:37, 3 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hello. Could you bestow the administratorship on Carolina wren? She gained the wide support of the community and I wanted to show benevolence by closing the vote and apprising you thereof. The uſer hight Bogorm converſation 07:02, 4 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Ah, sorry about that rather obvious mistake. That was due to my inattentiveness, I will try to pay more attention next time. Thanks for correcting it. Tempodivalse  13:56, 4 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi. It's Circeus's design – all I did was compose some alternate content for the alphabetical indexes.

Debugging layout for Explorer 6 and 7 is a real bitch under the best circumstances, and I only have access to them through a rather inconvenient virtual desktop. I don't have the time right now, or the desire, to take on the task of making the design work in what I consider to be an inadequate browser.

Of course it must be made to work in them, but for any individual editor I would suggest that switching to a better browser: Firefox, Safari, or Opera. I understand that even MSIE 8 has greatly improved standards support, although still not caught up with the others, and it was just officially released recently. —Michael Z. 2009-04-11 15:19 z

• I suppose only 90% of our users use IE; and who gives a fuck about the ones with bad eyesight anyway. SemperBlotto 15:23, 11 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

  That's unfair. I'm not proposing fucking anybody. Like I said, it must be done for any design. But why are you trying to volunteer me for this? —Michael Z. 2009-04-11 15:30 z

  • p.s. Exactly the same happens on Google Chome and on Firefox. SemperBlotto 15:27, 11 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Circeus didn't realize that input field can be made narrower. See Wiktionary_talk:Main_Page/2009_redesign#too_wide. —Michael Z. 2009-04-11 15:55 z

Would it kill you to do a google search before going for the knee-jerk deletion as "tosh"? --210.49.28.131 10:36, 12 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Are you sure you wanted to delete Wikisaurus:good, with the explanation "No usable content given"? I do not know what there was in the entry, but from what I remember there are no Wikisaurus entries worthy of deletion. --Dan Polansky 07:36, 18 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Yes. It just had a very small number of synonyms, unformatted and unwikified. SemperBlotto 10:04, 18 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I am sorry, I accidentally removed your Italian edits in concentrate. Please redo. Sorry again, I thought it was autoformat.

• (deprecated template usage) Italian: concentrare (1,2), concentrarsi (3)

Anatoli 08:00, 21 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Buongiorno. Could you please add this meaning w:it:Verticalizzazione (calcio)? It must be a shot-something, but I can't find the right word. Thank you.--Barmar 06:48, 22 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

• long ball is the closest that I can find - but it doesn't always have a high trajectory implied by the Italian term. SemperBlotto
  • Ok, I'll go with it. However it looks fine because also it:Wikipedia lists 'lancio lungo' as a synonym of verticalizzazione. And.. what about 'calcio piazzato/tiro piazzato'? w:it:Calcio piazzato --Barmar 15:41, 22 April 2009 (UTC)Reply
    • That's a place kick SemperBlotto 15:53, 22 April 2009 (UTC)Reply
      • A verticalizzazione is not simply a long ball, but a sudden and quick long ball. It can also be the act of verticalizzare, that in football means playing the attacking action along the major axis (not literally, also every parallel of that axis) of the pitch --Diuturno 18:17, 19 May 2009 (UTC)Reply
        • PS: in football verticale means the major axis and orizzontale the minor axis --Diuturno 18:22, 19 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, your help with Panax quinquefolium and radix Angelicae sinensis is much appreciated. Psoup 15:33, 23 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Sending a text to an Italian friend today, I realised that "vestiti" is a heteronym: it's vèstiti for "dress" (the imperative) and "vestìti" for "clothes" (my accents). I have added it to the Italian heteronyms category.

It then occurred to me that it is likely that many (all?) verbs ending in -ire that has a corresponding reflexive form in -irsi or that take an indirect object (-ire a...) will follow this same model. Note that reciprocal forms (eg, "mentirsi", to lie to each other) don't necessarily count unless the "-ire" form takes an indirect object (does "mentiti!" exist?). — Paul G 09:36, 24 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

These are not scientific names, they are latin descriptions of remebdy ingredients. The phrase "radix angelicae sinensis" means "root of Angelicae sinensis". --EncycloPetey 19:45, 25 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Yes - I'm not very happy with them - are you going to send them to RfV, RfD, or just delete them? SemperBlotto 21:22, 25 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

  I've just deleted them. They're Latin phrases that don't merit inclusin as LAtin since they're merely sum of parts. There is little point most of the time in putting up Latin terms for RfV unless there's a possibility they'd be supported. In this case, no, just as "asparagus root" or "elderberry flower" would not meet CFI. --EncycloPetey 22:07, 25 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

  i fail to understand the haste in deleting the "sum of parts", where they are perfectly acceptable in thousands of other phrases, such as "fish and chips", "fish bowl", "fish cake", "white adipose tissue", "white as snow", "blue balls", "blue blood", "pink elephant", etc. Psoup 23:36, 26 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

I started attacking a list of organic compounds on Wikipedia. As usual, I'm largely relying on the existence of WP articles that aren't full of Ns and numbers and am skipping anything too terrifying. Hope they're acceptable starting points. Equinox ◑ 21:53, 25 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Mostly good enough for jazz. Some a bit minimal, but it doesn't really matter as there is a link to -pedia. Keep up the good work. (I'm doing something similar from it.Wikipedia) SemperBlotto 21:57, 25 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Three I happened upon and couldn't define, in case you want to do it: benzoylphenylhydrazine, cyclohexadienedione, triphenylmethylhalophosphine. Equinox ◑ 22:55, 27 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi there. Yes, ambaradan also means mess, confusion etc. but its main meaning is another one. Here's some examples (from Google) Devi eliminare i controlli continui che ci sono all'inizio del midifile che servono per impostare i suoni, i volumi, il pan e tutto l'ambaradan. 'In tutto quell'ambaradan di cose fatte (scattare, cambiare ottica, rincorrerle) non si sono accorte di nulla..' 'Se riesci ad articolare tutto quest'ambaradan di subordinate e relative senza dare l'impressione che il testo sia passato in una centrifuga prima di essere pubblicato..' 'Ma vale la pena di tenere in piedi ancora un ambaradan che .. costerà 40-45 mila euro..? Any ideas? --Barmar 13:49, 29 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

• What about song and dance? We haven't got an entry fot this idiom yet, but it means an excessively elaborate story or excuse (to justify something), or an excessively elaborate set of instructions. it.wiktionary and it.wikipedia only seem to have the chaos meaning. SemperBlotto 14:02, 29 April 2009 (UTC)Reply
  • Yes not bad, although it doesn't cover all these examples. Anyway better than nothing, we can always add other more appropriate terms when they come to our minds. Buona serata . --Barmar 14:15, 29 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

is a fake word and i know it — This comment was unsigned.

• See De Mauro SemperBlotto 15:48, 30 April 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I'm sorry about being bold (Did the whole Wikipedia thing). I've done a little bit of reading and will bring up the changes I want to make in the tea room. Thanks again. Blackash 11:22, 4 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi SB. What was the problem? -- ALGRIF talk 16:18, 4 May 2009 (UTC) Hi again. Sorry. something wrong with the browser. It came up as a red-link with your name as deleter. Heaven knows why! Please ignore this. -- ALGRIF talk 16:20, 4 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

When you have chance, would you please act on the results of Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2009-04/User:Jackofclubs for admin? Thanks.—msh210℠ 17:18, 4 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

...and Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2009-04/User:Lmaltier for admin, too? (Special:UserRights/Lmaltier.)—msh210℠ 00:06, 12 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hello,

Just a quick note to let you know I undid your reversion of my recent edit to replayability. I presume you thought this was vandalism or some such. I have added an example sentence and a note on the talk page. Let me know if you still have concerns.

Thanks.

-William

• Your definition was of the adjective replayable - it now seems to have been corrected. SemperBlotto 21:07, 5 May 2009 (UTC)Reply
  • Good point, if you catch an error like that again, please just let me know to correct it rather than to undo it. Thanks. WilliamKF 20:39, 7 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

i know someone by this name. Top Cat 14 15:48, 8 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Just following up on something, check your email.

Happy editing to you, Keegan 20:16, 8 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

• I would have more time to hold people's hands if other sysops did more patrolling. SemperBlotto 21:10, 8 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Both of these were missing the PoS header, if you get time could you fix them (I don't know how to call {{it-noun}}). Conrad.Irwin 19:14, 9 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Thanks for spotting. Fixed. SemperBlotto 07:10, 10 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Capito. Grazie per la correzione. Ciao. --Discanto 16:40, 11 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for your suggestions (as ever!), SemperBlotto! As you may see, I'm not an expert in Italian verbs on en.wikt. :P
About the template modification: I'm sorry, actually that edit could have been integrated in another bundle of changes, in order to minimize softwares' workload. By the way, I'm just going to propose some larger modification on that template: some parts of it are at odds with standard Italian grammar.
Good evening! --Sentinella 22:34, 15 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Sure, no problem. I just thought that using the template was the correct thing. --Maha Odeh 16:06, 18 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Who are you to remove content ?

I'll work on that categories. I answered your email too --Diuturno 15:52, 20 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

I understand perfectly. Only a few patrol, and I notice that you can't do your job as you wish! --Diuturno 17:52, 21 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Can you control if the layout of eritrocita is correct? I'm not sure if the definition of a variant is made this way. Thanks --Diuturno 16:28, 5 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

I think it is OK. Some people would repeat the definition/translation from the primary spelling. I tend to use the simpler method (so as to minimise typing!). SemperBlotto 16:33, 5 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

I was genuinely surprised not to see an Italian translation! --EncycloPetey 15:16, 24 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Surprise removed. SemperBlotto 15:18, 24 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

I think it's probably a whimsical variation of fucked (i.e. broken), like fuxxed, fuxxored; see fark as well (but that one comes from the Web site Fark, whose thousands of visitors can bring down a popular linked site). Equinox ◑ 18:25, 24 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

sorry , I saw a french "word of the day" in the en:Wiktionnary, thought I could contribute ad majorem gloriam Wikipediae linguam francamque, and it looks like another blunder of mines on WP:en (seems only WP:es happily accepts my contribs...)...The french expressions are genuine, though that one on spiders is mainly heard in schoolyards and HLM ("Habitations à loyer modéré") backpantries.... By the way , I forgot to add an expression mainly heard in stable-yards : C'est une bête à chagrins (i.e. : this horse is always ailing, and costs us a lot...). As (Gaston de Foix ??) said : "De femmes, de faucons, de chevaux et de chiens, pour un plaisir, mille chagrins.... Heartily I hope that, owing to the crisis, nos retraites ne vont pas rétrécir comme peau de chagrin... (I enjoyed looking at your user's page !) signé Arapaima, french WP user, 63 ans, retraité... Arapaima 09:15, 25 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi. I'm not entirely familiar with Wiktionary's policies, so I am vaguely curious why you considered this edit vandalism. I added it first because it seemed logical, and second because I needed a link for a Wikipedia article I was writing. Apterygial 10:08, 25 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Who said it was vandalism? (deprecated template usage) one-two is a noun - your definition "occupying . . ." seems to be for an adjective. SemperBlotto 10:52, 25 May 2009 (UTC)Reply
  • Ah. OK. I assumed you considered it vandalism because you didn't leave an edit summary, just the reversion note. Apterygial 10:58, 25 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

D'oh! I have managed to forget my all-MediaWiki password. Can it be reset? It's only a problem at the moment on the sites that I rarely edit on, but that includes WP and there were edits I wanted to make there. Let me know what I need to do (besides write the password down). DCDuring TALK 19:26, 26 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

• When you go to the "Log in / create account" page, there is an option to email a new password. I have never used it - so I just assume it works. SemperBlotto 21:18, 26 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

As it turned out, it was even simpler. I went to the change password page on en.wikt and changed my password! Because I was still logged in, it didn't ask me for my old password. The new password seemed to work right away on Species and Pedia. (I was grateful that there were no apparent refresh delays.) I was panicking a bit earlier so I didn't look carefully at the obvious places for such options to be. My earlier problem had to do with a faulty keyboard for which I did a foolish work-around. Thanks. DCDuring TALK 21:08, 27 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Why the reversion? I mean, I don't know that it's correct, but it's certainly plausible. I do know, for example, that New York City residents call Manhattan (which is just one part of New York City) "the C|city", though I'm unsure of it's capitalization.—msh210℠ 21:24, 26 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

• "American English" is not a language. My plan, when I have finished with the latest tranche of vandalism, was to see if I could add something to the English section. SemperBlotto 21:26, 26 May 2009 (UTC)Reply
  • Oh. I apologize for jumping on you. I would re-add it myself, but am seeing it primarily in lowercase (with the reverted meaning). I'll add it that way. If your experience differs, then obviously add it as capitalized also.—msh210℠ 21:32, 26 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

I feel that an example that is near a real situation is worth for explaining. The existing example didn't help me, it was too general for me. Logictheo 10:26, 27 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

• I've added a second example sentence. SemperBlotto 10:30, 27 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

Concerning diff, compare these: —msh210℠ 20:55, 27 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

I don't know how to make the plural of reparative therapy into ]. Proxima Centauri 10:28, 31 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Done. SemperBlotto 10:31, 31 May 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Done. - thanks for the tips! --Tntdj 17:32, 3 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

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)Reply

No, not at all, I just wikified the etymology given by the IP, knowing that we could change it later if needed. Mglovesfun 10:57, 7 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

It is svignata/svignatasela not svignato/svignatosela, please see , that is related to cavarsela, but the conjugation template is the same. I.e. we say: 'La festa era così noiosa che me la sono svignata prima del taglio della torta. Se non me la fossi svignata, forse mi avrebbero addirittura costretto a tenere un discorso'. Buona giornata. --Barmar 15:02, 12 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

thefreedictionary says there is a such thing just wanted to let you know. --Cooscorner 21:15, 13 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

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I was tempted to add this once, but I can't imagine it meeting CFI. Wasn't it only written in full in the one paper (apart from "long word" lists)? Equinox ◑ 20:09, 16 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

This, or something like it was added once before but failed CFI. Specific oligopeptides (up to about three amino acids) have a good chance - but nothing longer. They are just "sum of parts". SemperBlotto 21:31, 16 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Can you make an argument as to why Greenfinger isn't a proper noun? It is a name that would be used for an individual instead of 'Goldfinger'. There aren't several Goldfingers, similarly there is no record in the refs of anyone suggesting that there would be several Greenfingers there would just be Greenfinger. Whoever acted to do environmental change would become Greenfinger (this is the concept and why it is capitalized in the refs). This is barely out of protologism territory, if that, and any definition is therefore extremely difficult speculation and ends up defining the word here on wiktionary more than it has been defined by the limited refs. It is far more common if you do an internet search for greenfinger to be associated with enviromental championing/campainging or gardening. This needs examining. 86.155.155.197 07:27, 18 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

• A proper noun is the name of an individual thing. If the word is used to represent a class of things it becomes a noun. The plural is allowed even if no occurrences of it has been recorded. SemperBlotto 07:31, 18 June 2009 (UTC)Reply
  • Okay but that is the argument. It would be a name for one person. If someone did this. They would be 'Greenfinger' an individual. There is not backing for use otherwise as a class of people. 86.155.155.197 07:42, 18 June 2009 (UTC)Reply
  • Following on with this argument. 'Greenfinger' is in imagined character based on 'Goldfinger'. Someone may become 'Greenfinger'. There is not a class of people 'greenfingers' 86.155.155.197 07:52, 18 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

• • • I have moved this to Talk:Greenfinger#A_Proper_Noun I think it needs to be here 86.155.155.197 08:02, 18 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

You removed the plural. Are these not relevant/legitimate? Equinox ◑ 10:31, 18 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Quite correct. Any organic compound can have plurals - normally meaning substituted derivatives of the base compound. SemperBlotto 10:35, 18 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

thank you SemperBlotto, my brain is now going, OK, must remember language header, must remember headword, must remember . . . . . . I'm so glad there are admins out there . . . ;) Logomaniac 17:10, 20 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Buongiorno. Like articles, also Italian prepositions have forms (i.e. per conto di, ad eccezione di and many others to come). Could your bot create them using the same template as adjective forms? --Barmar 07:05, 21 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

• • con intenzione/senza intenzione: I found them here and here and thought they were fine, but I won't object to their deletion.
• example of a preposition form:

==Italian== ===Preposition=== '''per conto del''' # Compound of '']'' and '']''. ]

• I've seen that some article and preposition forms are now included in category:Italian_contractions. I think this is wrong; actually dello is an article and allo a preposition, while dell', dall' etc IMHO are not contractions but apocopic forms.
• Sorry for those entries without a language header.

--Barmar 06:49, 22 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

• • Preposition forms derived from per conto di look fine to me. --Barmar 12:48, 22 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

(excuse me, because my knowledge of English is not good)
Hello, I'm David, Admin of Georgian Wiktionary. I've seen English Translation template. It is very easy template for all users. I want this template in its Georgian Wiktionary. I have translated and have something done, but that is not as good as in English. Can you tell me how they made this template? Or is this a secret :) thank you from the outset. Dato deutschland 08:41, 21 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Hello. Your English is much better than my Georgian! Please ask User:Conrad.Irwin - I think that he is the expert on this system. SemperBlotto 10:07, 21 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

You answered me on the talk page of Milan. I think we can find out the phonetical script together. You know the pronunciation, I know the script ;) You meant the stress is on the second syllable, didn't you? And do you pronounce the a (Milan) like in blast, crash, castle, or like apple or map? I think the former and if you really do, one script is alright. Don't you happen to know anything about the American pronunciation? Maybe, the i (Milan) is like the y in my and the a is like apple but I'm unsure if it's American and maybe that's the one you referred to when you mentioned the team. M-n-l are OK, so we know more than the half :o) Thanks for your answer and help. Ferike333 20:45, 21 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Why do you remove رانی without adding hit...

On it.wiki we consider him as a sort of troll and a flag-seeker (there were also some suspect of sockpuppetry): some months ago he started a thread at our village pump asking for oversight rights, saying that "oversight is a powerfull rollbacker, I'm ready". Even I have strong doubts he can really understand english, and finally, as I can see, he still uses to blank his own talkpage in order to hide reproaches and notices. I'm not asking here "please deflag him", it's just an advertisement, to pay attention since he want to get sysop status, for which he doesn't fit at all. Regards. --Vituzzu 08:41, 24 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

• OK - I'll keep an eye on him. SemperBlotto 08:51, 24 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Why was this reverted? ―99.242.201.67 11:45, 25 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

1. (slang) excellent, exceptionally good (usually musically)
2. (slang) respectable (portmanteau of true and real)

• Because I couldn't verify it. Feel free to provide evidence. SemperBlotto 16:54, 25 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Presumably online slang dictionaries aren't valid regardless of the nature of the word?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trill
http://onlineslangdictionary.com/definition+of/trill

• Quite correct. We don't allow words that are only found in dictionaries. SemperBlotto 13:25, 30 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Yes - woodpigeons also have ringed necks. The term could be applied to both species, however. --Top Cat 14 12:21, 28 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

A couple of things:

1. Are you a bureaucrat. If not, why not?
   • Yes - see Wiktionary:Administrators
2. Given that Wonderfool has been banned on here many times, I could delete your talk page on the French Wiktionary (it's not even in French ffs).
   • Yes please - and the user page. It's not me.
3. Do you have any information on Italian spelling reforms, such as -ph- that becomes -f- and -y- that becomes -i-.
   • No - try Barmar or Diuturno. SemperBlotto 18:26, 4 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

That seems to be all for the moment. Happy vandal fighting. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:28, 4 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi,

what does "ancora vita" mean in English? Also, could you tell me where you studied Italian? Thank you User:Mallerd (Zeg et es meisje) 15:18, 5 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Well, it doesn't seem to have any meaning to me. I wonder if someone has tried to translate the term (deprecated template usage) still life into Italian. (deprecated template usage) vita can mean (deprecated template usage) life, but (deprecated template usage) ancora only means (deprecated template usage) still in the sense of "yet again", not in the sense of "motionless". Where did you see it? SemperBlotto 21:33, 5 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
• I started to learn Italian many years ago (when I was much younger!) after a holiday in Venice in which I had to rely on a little book called "Get by in Italian". We (wife and I) went to weekly evening classes, at a local school, ("Italian for Pleasure") taught by a nice Italian lady who had learnt her English in Glasgow! It was all very informal. Later a new teacher actually gave us homework (always returned covered in big red corrections) and taught us proper grammar. All that ended after a few years and we try to not forget too much by reading Italian books etc. My conversational Italian has always been bad - and is not going to get any better. It takes me too long to remember the right words to use. However, whenever I am in an Italian town, I try to have conversations with the locals. Old men sunning themselves in the square are best - they tend to speak very slowly, with gaps between the words. Cheers. SemperBlotto 07:03, 6 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi, well I've heard Eros Ramazzotti sing it, but I thought "ancora vita" was some sort of idiom, since it didn't make much sense to me. Hm, old men huh? Perhaps it's gender related since I was once trying to talk to this old lady in w:Portofino, but she talked so fast the only thing I could understand was that she thought we were cute boys and the weather was really hot that day. Do you visit Italy often? I don't know if you have ever visited Cinque Terre in Italy, but I found the people really relaxed and taking the time for you to make yourself clear to them. I am returning to college in september to study the Italian language and culture. I'm really looking forward to it. Ciao User:Mallerd (Zeg et es meisje) 09:05, 6 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

• You had best try User:Barmar concerning "ancora vita" - she is native Italian and speaks excellent English.
• Yes, I have walked along (part of) the coastal path of the Cinque Terre - I can't remember between which two towns without digging out old diaries. SemperBlotto 09:33, 6 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi SemperBlotto! I know you probably do this all the time but I wanna say thanks for fixing (I'm not sure if that's the right word - they weren't exactly broken) my new entries. I'm not a botanist (or chemist, or physicist, or . . .) so it's pretty much up to what I can find on WP and my handy dictionary (not this one, Webster's Third !) before I summarize in my own words. I am trying really hard not to plagiarize... Sooooo - thanx a lot & keep up the good work!!!! ;D L☺g☺maniac chat? 22:59, 5 July 2009 (UTC) (P.S. - how do you like my new and improved sig? it's the first time I've used it!) Reply

mdbg=database,a-cai knows--User:史凡 (歡迎光臨！請也用skype: sven0921為我RSI !) 05:53, 11 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

• What are you trying to say? Talk needs to be in English sentences. SemperBlotto 06:46, 11 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

butjef,the anon was right>CEDICT-based:o--史凡/Sven - Pl also use MSN/skype as I suffer RSI and so cannot type very well! 04:07, 25 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

• I haven't got a clue what you are talking about. SemperBlotto 06:57, 25 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

I s trying to cite the CC-CEDICT project, which can be found at mdbg.net ,"framed":false,"label":"Reply","flags":,"classes":}'>Reply

• You could use the {{R:cedict}} template. SemperBlotto 17:18, 25 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Why did you block when "you" are causing disruptive editing in Wikitionary.

First, the Wikipedia article (Primary nutritional groups) I placed shows a table of Biological Scientific Nomenclature which is part of English Linguistics, so why did you remove them.

Secondly why did you held me responsible, when you yourself are style crufting in Wikitionary. Wikitonary isn't a place for your to "play" with your entries nor is it your own "personal dictionary." You follow the available and correct formats given by the Wikimedia Foundations. If other styles are necessary you should created a Template Documentations.

The ---- division line was created in Wikipedia for Dividing Talk pages that consists of multiple points. However, usually they are use to divide sections that contain multi-perspective, thus the ---- is used. This is also commonly seen in continuations of talk page that involve in merging, splitting...etc

I don't want to be cynical and accusing others of wrongdoings, but seriously you block me for only 2 edits that you didn't agree on. That behavior is a bit too rash of doing things for an administrator. You should really consider using talk page first, since Wikitionary doesn't really have well foundations of a guidelines similar to en:WP:MOS epically on the styling. Please improve in the future. --75.154.186.241 17:48, 11 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

I see you on Wiktionary a lot, so my interest was piqued. I went to your user page, and then I found myself reading your homepage. I think it's great that you've written your own biography and I loved seeing all the photos. Your wife looked just like Felicity Kendal back in the day, very stunning. ;) Mike Halterman 07:41, 15 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Why did you revert my changes to "not half bad'. It *is* an American English phrase whose meaning in British/Australian English is pretty well the complete opposite. Cf the TV series "It ain't half hot Mum". Wiktionary is supposed to be clear on regional differences, isn't it? --DavidKeeffe 14:27, 16 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Because I considered your edit to be wrong. I am English, and to me the UK meaning is the same as the US one. Perhaps you can provide evidence to the contrary. SemperBlotto 16:31, 16 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
• Hmm. I don't agree - I'm English too (and only about 10 years your junior) and I've only come across the "not half bad" (meaning good) in American sources. I've also observed that "not half X" generally means "less than half" in American usage and "more than half" in British usage. In several discussion groups found through Google I have noted confirmation of that. Since it's also indicated to be 'idiom' that's where I'd expect it be commonly found rather than in more literary sources. The "not half" entry in Wiktionary also seems to bear that out in part.--DavidKeeffe 12:20, 18 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
• Here's another observation via google: and another in Wikipedia both of which suggest that the appropriate usage is pretty clear in US English but while understood in British English isn't common or comfortable--DavidKeeffe 12:34, 18 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Am I mistaken, or would it appear that SemperBlotto perceives Witionary as a personal dictionary? If he doesn't agree or have previous experience, then it is deleted/edited/reverted without useful comment or discussion. Are such dictatorial methods what the wiki team stand for? md010101 14:59, 7 August 2009

http://en.wikipedia.orghttps://dictious.com/en/List_of_English_words_containing_Q_not_followed_by_U — This comment was unsigned.

That WP says the OED has it is not compelling evidence. I have looked at the OED citation database. It does not contain a citation of that spelling. Do you have a date for its use? Any citations of its use? DCDuring TALK 10:59, 17 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

The only place it appears in the OED is as a header form qhythson- (note end missing) for the Whitsontide entry. It has no supporting citations. --EncycloPetey 15:19, 18 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Is this really an uncountable noun? I can see there is stand-alone usage, making it more than a prefix, but it seems to be an adjective. Equinox ◑ 00:12, 19 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

• You won't find words like these in any other dictionary. In English, words like (deprecated template usage) fluoro or (deprecated template usage) methyl are nouns, so I made the decision to call (deprecated template usage) difluoro and (deprecated template usage) dimethyl etc nouns as well. They are used almost exclusively in combination - so maybe they are (deprecated template usage) combining forms. SemperBlotto 07:01, 19 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

I deleted this, then checked and it appears to have google hits in Italian, so I restored. However, I don't find it in the standard Italian translation dictionary online. Any clues? - Amgine/^talk 05:55, 20 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

• It's fine - see DeMauro - I have cleaned it up, added the antonym (and the antonym's English translation). SemperBlotto 07:06, 20 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi SemperBlotto I believe your revert was based on a false assumption. I copied that script directly from Strong's greek encyclopaedia - it is the exact script that was provided here. Can you please undo your revert, and let me know any other constructive criticism? Thanks and have a good day! --Tntdj 07:17, 21 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

• You need to add an entry for μέτρον, μέτρου or μέτρῳ - they are indeed Ancient Greek. SemperBlotto 07:20, 21 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

• I trust this is better now. Not perfect, but better. :) --Tntdj 07:35, 21 July 2009 (UTC)Reply
  • Good but no cigar - I have cleaned it up so that it conforms to our standards, and removed a quotation that didn't actually use the word. More quotes would be a good idea. SemperBlotto 08:21, 21 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Hi, would you mind giving me some feedback on my shtup edit?

http://en.wiktionary.orghttps://dictious.com/en/User_talk:208.7.225.224#shtup

Thanks, 208.7.225.224 07:55, 21 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Things that need to be done are . . . 1) Etymology of (deprecated template usage) shtup needs to be corrected to point to the correct Yiddish word (written with Hebrew characters) 2) That entry needs to be created if we don't already have it (I can't tell). SemperBlotto 08:19, 21 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

If all these words consist of a prefix and suffix, do you mean that there is no root word at all? Normally, part of the word is considered the noun base, and the other component is an affix. --EncycloPetey 21:45, 23 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

• Well, there seem to be two classes of these words. There's, for example, (deprecated template usage) batteriofita made from the noun (deprecated template usage) batterio, and then (deprecated template usage) briofita that has nothing to do with the noun (deprecated template usage) brio. I have used the {{prefix}}, {{suffix}} and {{confix}} templates really just to get the words into the appropriate category. SemperBlotto 07:12, 24 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Please rename User:Sunstar NW XP, this user has no official affiliation with anyone associated with any website called Sunstar, and is not the real user.

I modified again the word Sardegnolo because wrong:

Sardegnolo is considered an insult if referred to a person and isn't a noun but a an adjective. In Italian is used only referring to animals not Sardinia people. Hope you will live in the way it is. — This comment was unsigned.

• Our definition is correct according to the De Mauro dictionary. Perhaps you should send them an email to complain. SemperBlotto 14:34, 26 July 2009 (UTC)Reply