Fantasma

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• Entry titles are case-sensitive and do not have their first letters capitalized unless, like proper nouns, they are ordinarily capitalized. So we have mercury for the substance and Mercury for the planet and the god. (We do not use parentheses in titles: there's no Mercury (planet).)
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Also, a "citation" on Wiktionary is the same as a "quotation" and is evidence of a word being used; we use these to construct dictionary definitions. See WT:QUOTE. A "reference", on the other hand, which is called a "citation" on Wikipedia, references another secondary source, such as a dictionary, and is used predominantly for verifying etymologies and usage notes, not the definitions themselves. (That we don't use another dictionary as our source for the existence of a word is largely so that we don't fall into the trap of adding "list words", words that, while often defined, are never used in practice.)

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If you doubt the existence of an Italian word juror, please add the template {{rfv-sense}} to it rather than changing its headword.​—msh210℠ (talk) 18:15, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Italian entries

Be careful as Italian does have loanwords, such as country, for example this use of the term. Adding {{rfv-sense}} or {{rfv}} means someone (or multiple people) have to verify them which is a bit of a long process. Oh and please complete any nominations by clicking the plus sign (⁺) and explaining why the entry is to be verified. Mglovesfun (talk) 18:49, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Sorry for the plus sign, I'll do. I'm tagging only those words that I'm sure about, and I'm cautiously leaving many which are perhaps false but I still cannot exclude they aren't. This is the case of many words starting with non Italian carachters (J,K,Y,W,X), which eventually are of extremely rare use. Thank you for your patience :-) --Fantasma 19:05, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

I'm not saying to leave them, what I will say is

1. try and verify them yourself using books.google.it or another reliable source
2. don't (in my opinion) tagged too many entries at a time; as editors physically need to verify them, which takes up a lot of time

Mglovesfun (talk) 19:42, 28 February 2011 (UTC)