Qualifiers in pt-noun

Fragment of a discussion from User talk:Rua

So add it to Module:headword or don’t use it. The template was working well before. And there is established practice for qualifiers in headword lines: read, sit, eat.

Ungoliant (falai)17:43, 26 July 2014

Ok, I'll try to add it into the module then. It won't be too hard, but please be patient and don't revert it again. Your revert broke every Portuguese noun entry on Wiktionary.

CodeCat17:44, 26 July 2014

When are you going to finish it?

Ungoliant (falai)03:51, 3 August 2014

I did.

CodeCat11:52, 3 August 2014

No you didn’t. Looks like I’ll have to unbreak the template myself.

Ungoliant (falai)16:53, 3 August 2014

What do you mean? The qualifiers show in front of inflections now.

CodeCat16:54, 3 August 2014

The qualifiers for genders are still gone, and the distinction between words using the same form for two genders and words for which different people use different genders also disappeared.

Ungoliant (falai)17:01, 3 August 2014

Why is that distinction meaningful? And also, why do genders need qualifiers to begin with? Portuguese only has two genders, there can't be much to qualify that doesn't fit in a usage note.

CodeCat17:06, 3 August 2014

It is, and you participated in the discussion where that was decided. You obviously didn’t look at entries using gender qualifiers because there is information that needs to be conveyed.

Ungoliant (falai)17:57, 3 August 2014

I still don't understand why Portuguese is so special that it needs all these extra features. I would be more willing to add such things to our modules if there was more demand for them, or at least some kind of discussion to show that we actually want to overload our headword lines with tons of parenthetical notes.

CodeCat18:25, 3 August 2014