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First, merely because a word has been loaned by many languages does not mean that it warrants a Translingual section; some other examples of this happening are listed at WT:AMUL and explicitly rejected. And this contribution does not conform to WT:ELE anyway. Second, you copied {{etyl|en|sh}} into the etymology section of every languagem without noticing that the sh stands for Serbo-Croatian and makes the template categorise the entry in Category:Serbo-Croatian terms derived from English. — Keφr 21:04, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Phobias

Hi. Are you aware of Appendix:Invented phobias? Please note that a lot of phobia words only appear in word lists, and aren't actually used to describe a real fear. Those word-list phobias should go in the appendix, and should not have mainspace entries in Wiktionary. Equinox ◑ 22:26, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Don't trust Wikipedia too far. Their list includes e.g. "chlorophobia" which seems to have no use (or only use for chloroform, and not the colour green) if you look at Google Books. It doesn't even have a true WP article, just a redirect. I've spent time on WP getting some of the bad phobias deleted, but there are still bad ones. Equinox ◑ 22:52, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Also, be careful about using {{prefix}}, {{suffix}} and {{confix}} indiscriminately: it can be very tricky determining whether a particular word element is an affix or independent. There are also instances such as erytophobia where the person who coined the word misspelled a particular word element- even if the word turns out to be attested, I doubt eryto- will be. When you use one of these templates, you're not just formatting the entry, you're adding it to a category (see the category links at the bottom of the page). I spend a lot of time creating category pages from such redlinks, and I'd rather not have to deal with dozens of variations on Category:English words prefixed with eryto- and the like. Thanks! Chuck Entz (talk) 23:08, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

"rare" and "nonstandard" still require some actual use of the word outside of word lists. See WT:CFI. Equinox ◑ 01:20, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

When you are ready for a rest from Portuguese entries, I trust that you will return to some of your dubious phobia entries to add genuine citations of usage (at least three independent cites, and spanning at least a year). Dbfirs 09:40, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

There are sources for most of the phobia entries I've created. Not necessarily three per page as you defined; actually I don't know of any rule or guideline stating they must be set in such a way. - Alumnum (talk) 10:04, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

I didn't decide on the requirement. It's in the guidance linked above by Equinox: "use in permanently recorded media, conveying meaning, in at least three independent instances spanning at least a year ". If you can't find that, then the terms should be moved to Appendix:Invented phobias to avoid deletion. Please remember that this is not Wikipedia. Dbfirs 20:35, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

I'm not sure if this criterion described in the guidance applies universally to all English entries in Wiktionary, but if it does, then a lot of entries should be deleted since they aren't referenced with "three independent instances spanning at least a year". A good amount of the entries I've created are, though. Just a few minutes of search in Google Books could lead me to publications where the phobia is mentioned completely outside "phobia lists". To find two or three sources was my actual goal, but in the last ones I've stopped in the first. It will be no problem to work on the remaining incomplete entries when I have some time. Plus, it would be interesting if other users decide to help, as we are a collaborative project and this is not a responsibility entirely of mine. - Alumnum (talk) 10:29, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

The criterion applies to all entries (if challenged). In practice, it would be perverse to challenge common words since everyone knows that they can be cited so easily (though Wiktionary would benefit from citations eventually). Mentions of phobias are not sufficient; the word needs to be used to convey meaning, not just defined. Many phobias are mentioned in just one or two publications, and never actually used. These belong in the appendix as mentioned above. Dbfirs 15:29, 24 January 2015 (UTC)

Gênero de gare

Tem certeza que é masculino? Todos usos que encontrei estão no feminino. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 12:52, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Entry formatting

I noticed that in your edits, you always remove all the empty lines. Can you please leave empty lines as they are? Also, when linking to terms in a language, can you use {{l}} (in lists) and {{m}} (in running text)? —CodeCat 21:48, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

A note on templates

Please be careful with the templates when fixing a page to ensure that they categorise and link correctly. In this edit I had to add lang=pt for that purpose. Thank you for improving our Portuguese entries! —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 19:33, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

-óis

O acordo ortográfico não afetou vogais oxítonas abertas seguidas de semivogal. O plural de anzol continua sendo anzóis. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 22:23, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

crescer

O parâmetro de {{sense}} serve para identificar de qual definição as palavra são antônimos (ou sinônimos, etc.), não o significado dos antônimos. — Ungoliant ^(falai) 02:17, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Related terms

Related terms é para termos relacionados etimologicamente, e em geral é um cabeçalho de nível quatro (deve ====Related terms====, não ===Related terms===). — Ungoliant ^(falai) 22:32, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

anarcha-feminism

Hi there. Shouldn't it be anarcho-feminism? We already have anarcho-feminist. SemperBlotto (talk) 10:14, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Attestation

Please note that entries in the English Wiktionary must pass WT:ATTEST. I've sent your entry centibitcoin to WT:RFV. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 21:20, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

Redirects

If you move a page, please remember to mark the resulting redirect for deletion using {{delete}}. DTLHS (talk) 21:42, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

l/en

User:Renard Migrant is using User:MglovesfunBot to change all instances of {{l/en}} into {{l|en}}. the same is true for a number of other languages. Would you use {{l|en}} in the future when creating entries, please? BTW, I like these Portuguese entries for idioms you've been creating, keep up the good work. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 22:52, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

There are no actual differences in the formatting/categorization/text/etc. between {{l/en}} and {{l|en}}. It's just that {{l/en}} was created to solve performance issues that happened pre-Lua (using the template {{l}} many times in a single page would cause those issues), but now there's no need for that template anymore, I believe, since {{l}} uses Lua nowadays and therefore does not have the same issues. Plus, templates like {{l/en}} don't exist in all languages and aren't always fully functional, so they require unnecessary creation/maintenance. Discussions:

• WT:RFDO#Template:l/de
• WT:RFDO#Template:l/la
• WT:RFDO#Template:l/..., Template:link/...

--Daniel Carrero (talk) 01:54, 20 December 2015 (UTC)