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Assuming you've read this far, I think that creating pages for Ancient Greek declensions is definitely a thing that should happen, but it's also something that will be much better served with a bot (eventually one of us will write a proposal for one.) Thus, if you're interested in helping out with Ancient Greek entries, I would encourage you rather, if you can, to create new lemmata, or update existing ones. Thanks! ObsequiousNewt (ἔβαζα|ἐτλέλεσα) 17:08, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice! I wasn't thinking, but bots are certainly the best way to go. I'd love to see coverage of Ancient Greek inflections as thorough as it is for Latin. Being able to search by individual forms is, of course, especially important in Ancient Greek, where it can sometimes be impossible to determine the given form or principal parts of an unfamiliar noun or verb that one encounters while reading. I'm still a little timid about adding wholly new entries, but hopefully I'll work up the courage soon. Boomur 20:06, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Do feel free to ask me to look over any new entries you may create. Fortunately it's possible to search for inflected forms and (usually) the lemma will show up, but it's certainly desired to have soft-linked entries. Of course, writing a bot is a long and arduous task, and nobody really wants to do it... but someone's got to, so maybe I'll try and put something together within the next week. ObsequiousNewt (ἔβαζα|ἐτλέλεσα) 01:54, 8 February 2015 (UTC)