Amshik G. A.

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ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ,

Thank you for the Kannada entries! Just a note: in the etymology section of some words, you've used the word "cognate" and referred to some Sanskrit words. Two words are cognates when they have the same origin; for instance Kannada ಮೀನು (mīnu) and Tamil மீன் (mīṉ) would be cognates as they both come from Proto-Dravidian *mīn. If a word in Kannada is borrowed from a Sanskrit word, use {{bor|kn|sa|}} instead. For instance, at ಚಿತ್ರ, the text should be: {{bor|kn|sa|चित्र}} (the Kannada word ಚಿತ್ರ comes from Sanskrit चित्र; it is not cognate with Sanskrit "chayanam").

As for formatting, you can copy-paste an already created entry and change all the relevant information for your current entry. Cheers! -- Bhagadatta (talk) 09:43, 13 August 2020 (UTC)

Dravidian is not from Egyptian, and your Proto-Dravidian entries did not match revonstructions in scholarly sources. I have deleted all the entries you created. If you continue to add fringe material, you will be blocked. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 16:25, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

ಹೊಸ ಲೇಖಗಳು

ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ.

ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಆಗಾಗಲೇ ರಚಿಸಿರುವ ಲೇಖಗಳಿಂದ copy-paste ಮಾಡಿ ಹೊಸ ಲೇಖನೇಯ ನಿರ್ಮಾಣ ಮಾಡಿ. ಹೀಗೆ ಮಾಡಿದರೆ ನೀವು formatting ಸಂಬಂಧ ಪಟ್ಟಿದ ತಪ್ಪುಗಳನ್ನು ತಪ್ಪಿಸಬಹುದು. -- Bhagadatta (talk) 11:00, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Only after you have familiarised yourself with Wiktionary can you proceed with new edits. Now you will only clean up all of your poorly-formatted entries. Regards. —inqilābī ^{[inqilāb zindabād]} 13:49, 5 September 2020 (UTC)

@Bhagadatta, I think that this contributor needs to be temporarily blocked. Even after showing them useful links above, they are going on creating poorly-formatted (e.g., this) or even bad (e.g., this, this) entries & have not yet cleaned up their earlier edits. Even other editors have to fix their newly created entries (e.g., this). They are not providing spacings between headers, nor are they marking a reconstructed page using {{reconstructed}} (e.g., this). So, all entries created by them should be deleted, because such newbies must not be a headache to us. If you agree, AryamanA may be notified. Thanks! —inqilābī ^{[inqilāb zindabād]} 17:13, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

@Inqilābī: I agree. I told them to copy-paste any existing entry and change up the relevant information while creating a new entry as that would at least prevent formatting mistakes but they paid no heed. I then forgot to follow up on this user's latest edits and their new entries went unnoticed as they weren't templated. It appears as if they're just copying entries from the Kannada Wiktionary. And oh, the reconstructed entries are a problem as well.

@AryamanA I regret to say this but I think a short block is the only way to get this editor's attention. -- Bhagadatta (talk) 17:24, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

@Bhagadatta, Inqilābī: Agreed, and it appears @Metaknowledge already blocked them so we're good on that. Will try to clean up some of their entries. —Aryaman^{A (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान)} 17:29, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Proto-Dravidian reconstructions

Hi, I noticed your Reconstruction:Proto-Dravidian/-atsan entry doesn't agree with Krishnamurthy's reconstruction *aṇṇa from his book {{R:dra:DL}}. Could you please source your Proto-Dravidian reconstructions? Have a good day. Kritixilithos (talk) 15:10, 7 September 2020 (UTC)