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Again, welcome! Wyang (talk) 22:29, 26 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

Just wondering if you're aware of this... — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 03:04, 8 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Please! It only takes a few extra seconds at most when you are creating, but it’s a waste of others’ time if they have to edit all these definitions. I don’t want to have to add code in zh-new to add an error message... Thanks. Wyang (talk) 06:45, 20 April 2018 (UTC) Wyang (talk) 06:45, 20 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

• as in Long March - and isn't that also the name of a rocket system? SemperBlotto (talk) 15:39, 25 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Hello!

Thanks for finding 苳! I was using ctext.org to look for these rarely-used second-round simplifications, but they accidentally gave 苳 as having 11 strokes, so I didn't see the character. Let me know if you can find other characters! Here are some of the other characters with second-round simplified forms I haven't found yet: 钁、鐝、毀、鏡、罐、短、稻、蹈、彈、煤、鞋、弊、儒、穩、部、矗 --Geographyinitiative (talk) 21:01, 3 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

Firstly, it is not appropriate to put a speedy deletion tag on non-vandalistic entries. You can use {{rfd|zh}} and request their deletion. Secondly, it appears that you have not actually read WT:NSE, even though you keep linking to it. Go and read it. Courtesy names are allowed by that policy. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 01:47, 11 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

@Metaknowledge: The concern with 項羽 is not that it's a courtesy name, but that it is a name that includes both a family name and a given name (which happens to be a courtesy name). — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 03:05, 11 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

I didn't understand that courtesy names were to be considered a subset of personal names for purposes of CFI. Regardless, these entries should be sent to RFD; thank you for doing that. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 08:34, 11 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

Don't create entries you think are only "putative" in languages you know nothing about with poor sources. When you do that, you are not contributing to the dictionary; you are merely wasting others' time. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 03:49, 21 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

Hi, please don't make barebones Hindi entries; at least make sure that the gender is given for the nouns. This is a good Hindi-English dictionary. —Aryaman^{A (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान)} 00:51, 13 July 2018 (UTC)Reply