Term placeholders/requests

Re "Showing a request for a term is pointless. How are people supposed to know what term is meant?": From context. Or from any other information that may be indicated, such as the translation. See Zira.

I can't tell from context what is meant there. It seems more like a crossword puzzle to me. "Guess the word that means X and sounds like Y." Besides, the module is used very generally; we don't want to remove the error checking just for a few specific cases. It's not worth it.

That's the whole point. You might not know the word, but someone else who stumbles upon the page (perhaps by browsing through the category) might know. Either from the idea that it has to be similar to "Zira" or from the translation, or both. If it's an error, then it would still be caught by the editor or whoever is browsing the category. And who ever said it's only for specific cases? This could be used very widely. It hasn't been only because the template hasn't allowed it.

And what if it isn't?

Not every error can be caught. One error I frequently make is {{m|he|מַיִם|máyim}}, which displays as: máyim. If I don't catch it when I'm editing, someone else will when they are browsing the page.

One tweak I would suggest is checking the namespace: people try out all kinds of nonstandard kluges in their user spaces- do we really want those cluttering up the request categories?

I agree, but I just copied the logic used for the script request.

A further suggestion: change the name of the cat to "Entries missing <language name> terms". Right now it sort of implies that it should contain entries in the language requested, which is confusing.

{{poscatboiler}} does not currently support that name, so it would mean making a new template.

Even "term requests" would be better, since we're marking the request, rather than the term.

That sounds good.