Template talk:Fi

Why is Finnish again link?! Earlier decisition was: don't use linking with meta words (common language names, "noun", "verb" ect). What does this "Finnish # Noun" mean?! Should we mark Finnish nouns with this? How should we mark verbs, adjectives? Any information how to continue editing?! I am confused about what to do because where are no clear _rules_ how to construct multilingual system... Aulis Eskola 15:46, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)

It's just a mistake, and a pretty misleading one at that.

The point of linking language names is to link to the definition of the language for people that don't know about it (and the point of adding #Noun is to link directly to the section that defines it — which is a mistake in Finnish itself, because "Finnish" is a proper noun). But Finnish is a known-enough language name to not be linked here, so I removed the link.

The point of these templates is that some people want to make it easier to copy =Translations= sections across wiktionaries, but don't know their native names for the individual languages (or don't want to do the work of rewriting them), so instead of writing *Finnish: [[hukka]], they'd write {{fi}}: [[hukka]]. —Muke Tever 18:23, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)