User talk:Simplificationalizer

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Again, welcome! — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 02:16, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

You didn't create a discussion so I have removed this. You have to click the + plus sign on the RFV tag, and post there. Equinox ◑ 20:09, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

When you make edits like this, please be sure to keep the interwiki links at the bottom. Thanks! —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 22:32, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

You added sceaphyrde to Category:ang:Even-toed ungulates, but how on earth is a person herding sheep an ungulate? Likewise, hris is not a kind of tree. You need to be more careful about the categories you add. —CodeCat 21:57, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

According to Wiktionary:Categorization, "the names of topical categories denote what the terms are about, not what they are." Shepherds are not ungulates, but they are related to ungulates. I can understand hris, though because other plants have twigs.--Simplificationalizer (talk) 22:01, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

That's definitely not true, though. Many categories are for a particular type of thing, and the description of the category often makes that clear. Perhaps what the sentence means is that they are for the referents rather than the words. If in doubt, assume a category is for a kind of thing, but if you want to be sure, check if it's in Category:List of sets. Keep in mind that categories are still being added to that, so what should be a set-type category may not yet be marked as one. —CodeCat 22:03, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Looking at a set like Category:en:Horses, there are entries like behind the bit, neigh, and dressage, terms related to horses, but not horses.--Simplificationalizer (talk) 22:07, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Then those entries are misplaced. Category:en:Equestrianism seems like the right place. —CodeCat 22:11, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

For dressage, sure. But what about neigh?--Simplificationalizer (talk) 00:03, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Connel wasn't giving particularly good advice, even for a decade ago... RFV is used when you doubt a word's existence, at least in durably archived media. This does seem to be pretty clearly attested, so there's no reason to send it to RFV. (There's also no reason besides elitism that I can see for saying it doesn't belong in a dictionary.) —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 22:03, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Hi, please use {{zh-cat}} instead of HotCat for categorizing Chinese entries. Thanks! — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 00:48, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

Hi and thank you for your past contributions. Some time ago there was a discussion on targetting being a misspelling, and I thought you, honorable contributor, may have a suggestion on how to formulate the inflections of target#Verb, as they are currently giving alternatives for actual wrong spellings. Cœur (talk) 07:34, 6 August 2017 (UTC)

I don't see either of them as wrong. I just see them as variants. It follows a rule of variation. Targeting is more common, though. This is my general outlook on spelling and pronunciation variation.--Simplificationalizer (talk) 16:40, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

An alternative form should still be in use today. If it's archaic or obsolete use {{obsolete form of}}. DTLHS (talk) 22:42, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Hey. Thanks for the interest you have in Spanish entries. Wouldn't to be easier to do things like Category:Spanish 3-syllable words with a bot? I'm sure DTLHS (talk • contribs) can make something - he's a freaking genius. --Genecioso (talk) 20:53, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

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RMaung (WMF) 17:03, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Hello. You recently added a link to men in white coats for the French term blouses blanches. I don't think those terms are equivalent though, at least in my idiolect. To me the "men white coats" is specifically a (informal) reference to the psychiatric profession, often used to suggest that someone is insane. As I understand the French term, though, it is a much more generic reference to nurses and doctors. Of course I am not especially fluent in French, and there may be senses of the English phrase that I'm not familiar with. What do you think? Cnilep (talk) 03:57, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Where did you get that from? Judging from the Chinese entries, there's no historical match between the parts of either term, just superficial similarity at some stages. The characters and their meanings are totally different. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:41, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

Hello Simplificationalizer,

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Cease and desist from “importing” words from etymologies in lots of languages you don’t know or without checking the accuracy. شِرْس (širs, “shrub with thorns”) is not known to be used and Spanish zarza you copied from is of unknown origin. Etymologies contain bare tosh not known to be used, usually themselves copied from medieval dictionaries which themselves were compiled and copied haphazardly following some spurious interpretation of poetry and religious scriptures, and the laziness in even bringing over the vocalization is an inexcusable “simplificationalization” on top of that. Such entries do not meet the minimum requirements editors are expected to hold up to. What do you think people look for in this dictionary? There must be something that distinguishes it qualitatively so people stick to it. Fay Freak (talk) 01:37, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

In what way are they not doublets? They both derive from ἐλεημοσύνη (eleēmosúnē). Do you think the route by which ἐλεημοσύνη (eleēmosúnē) became alms (going through Proto-Germanic and Old English) is too similar to the route by which it became eleemosynary (from Latin) for them to be considered "words in a language that have the same etymological root, but have come to the modern language through different routes"? (I think the routes and the modern forms are different enough that the doublet crosslink is reasonable.) - -sche (discuss) 20:42, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

eleemosynary has a suffix that alms doesn't. alms = eleemosyna whereas eleemosynary = eleemosyna + -arius --Simplificationalizer (talk) 21:31, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Can you, please, at least add the correct gender to the German nouns you're creating entries for? I can see that copy-pasting a template from other entries is too hard for you but you should at least care enough to include the most important grammatical features as inflection in German is much more important than in English. Shumkichi (talk) 14:30, 8 October 2021 (UTC)

Do you know what the word "Simplificationalizer" means? If you don't, then I will never create its page. 176.88.80.0 04:43, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi Simplificationalizer. I just want to ensure you are aware of the recent consensus to exclude multiword terms (specifically terms that contain spaces) from the subcategories of Category:English words by number of syllables, since I noticed that you have done the opposite in the past. Thanks, — excarnateSojourner (talk · contrib) 06:09, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Got it 👍--Simplificationalizer (talk) 14:29, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Hello Simplificationalizer, I saw that you recently added Category:English contranyms to dusky. I'm no sure which which senses are exact opposites of each other, can you clarify which senses you were thinking about when you added the category? Thanks and take care. —The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 05:31, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Dark-skinned and ashen (senses 3 and 4)--Simplificationalizer (talk) 13:29, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

I see you are quickly adding new, stubby entries for several languages. Given the rate at which you are adding entries, the stub form of the entries and the fact that you've been called out before for creating wrong entries (and have a tendency to not respond to such messages), I don't have a good feeling about the correctness of the entries. In fact, I suspect there are lots of errors in these entries. How well do you speak Catalan, Portuguese, German, etc.? What are the sources you are using to verify the correctness of definitions and of inflections? Benwing2 (talk) 06:00, 25 May 2023 (UTC)

I see you are still adding words quickly and have ignored my request for info. I have found several mistakes so far in recent Catalan changes of yours: indignant (wrong feminine), correligionari (also wrong feminine), arbre genealògic (wrong plural), lobotomia (missing gender), targeta gràfica (incorrect accent in plural), boca d'incendi (wrong plural), llengua de signes (wrong plural), refugi d'animals (wrong plural). This doesn't bode well for all the other entries. Please do respond to my request or I may end up blocking you temporarily to get your attention. Thanks! Benwing2 (talk) 02:13, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Three days later and you are clearly active but still not responding. In another three days you will be blocked temporarily. To avoid this please respond to my questions above. Thank you. Benwing2 (talk) 03:26, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

I have stopped creating entries for languages other than English and Spanish. My primary sources had been dcvb.iec.cat and usages on Google Books; my consideration for inflections was minimal and overhasty. I don't have any proficiency in the languages you mentioned--Simplificationalizer (talk) 13:28, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

@Simplificationalizer What about French? I would really like to ask you to be more careful, you only make quick entries without pronunciation (even though there is a module) and etymology Stríðsdrengur (talk) 12:08, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi - please don't just blank a page and leave it, like you did at Gitterlinge. If you think it needs to be deleted because you made a mistake, use {{d}}, and put the reason in the first parameter. Theknightwho (talk) 15:53, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

Hi - {{zh-cat}} has been deprecated, and we’re now just using the normal category template {{C}} instead. You also don’t need to put it multiple times if there’s more than one category: e.g. at 狗熊 (gǒuxióng) you can put {{C|zh|Ursids|Fear|People}}. Theknightwho (talk) 16:57, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Could you give me a link to your source for the placement of this in a family other than Apidae. Apidae may be overdo for splitting, but we need some signs of a taxonomic consensus. I don't want to do an RfV, but if you have three cites (even not durably archived), supporting your placement, that would support the current def. IMHO. Never mind. It's just wrong. Miturgidae is a family of spiders. DCDuring (talk) 00:10, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

Template {{dercat}} allows us to keep entries categorized without duplicating etymologies. -- Sokkjō 01:38, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Loving all these entries :) Jewle V (talk) 14:01, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

Are they all from a certain part of the world? Jewle V (talk) 19:31, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

PS I'd love them more if they were categorized and linked to. Jewle V (talk) 19:31, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

I also like the plants. Not as much as the animals, though. Thanks for not wasting your time with adding Template:es-IPAP. Sovjunk (talk) 19:36, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

Why did you say English syrt was borrowed from Turkish sırt? The spelling doesn't make sense, and neither does the change in meaning. Please don't make shit up. Theknightwho (talk) 18:29, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Should this actually say "one-liners" in plural? I'd check myself but don't have that particular volume of Gay Community News to hand. Denazz (talk) 20:32, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the correction. It is, in fact, "one-liners". For future reference, all issues of Gay Community News can be accessed here, and are text-searchable.--Simplificationalizer (talk) 20:38, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Good to know. I'll leave that stuff to you. Donnanz will do dumb train news, and I'll do dumb soccer news. Denazz (talk) 20:42, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Please be more careful with languages ​​you don't speak Stríðsdrengur (talk) 23:24, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

Adding |undefined makes the template think that the plural is the literal word "undefined". See {{en-noun}} and {{en-proper noun}} for the right way to do whatever you were trying to. Could you fix these entries and any others where you made this mistake? Ioaxxere (talk) 20:51, 13 April 2024 (UTC)