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P.S. Check out what I did to the entry Warmduscher. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 01:33, 28 July 2017 (UTC)Reply
Dear Lo Ximiendo, thanks for the help with the article about Warmduscher. I noticed that you replaced "References" by "Further reading". I used the term "References" because that is what has been suggested at Wiktionary:Entry_layout#A_very_simple_example. If you believe that "Further reading" is better, then you might also want to change the example given at Wiktionary:Entry_layout#A_very_simple_example. --Hyperhero (talk) 01:40, 28 July 2017 (UTC)Reply
Check out the News for Editors, under the section for the April of 2017, and add that newspaper to your watch-list. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 08:48, 28 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Formatting etc edit

Hi. Thanks for your additions. Please see the changes I have made at Kotzefresser. Here are the important notes:

  • Please use templates to format your etymologies, like {{compound}}.
  • Context labels should only be used at the beginning of a definition line, and synonymous parts (like "puke" for "vomit" need not be given.
  • "Further reading" is for, well, further reading — dictionaries or other academic sources. Examples of use can be given as citations, but just linking to a book is not too useful.

Please ask if you have any further questions. Thanks! —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 17:49, 28 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Dear Μετάknowledge, thanks for letting me know about the template for compounds; I was not aware of this template. You removed the three links in "Further reading". Initially I added these links because I thought that it is always required to provide three sources to prove the existence of a word. So what is the best way to prove that the word Kotzefresser actually exists? Thanks --Hyperhero (talk) 18:03, 28 July 2017 (UTC)Reply
There are two parts to this:
  • Firstly, it's not sources, but quotations that show use in three independent, durably archived sources (like books or films). These quotations are placed under the entry. 'Further reading' is for other sources like dictionaries that could give more information about the word.
  • It is only required that those quotations exist, but they don't have to be placed in the entry unless someone challenges it. In the mean time, if lots of books clearly use the word, there's no need to add quotations from three of them to the entry. You can if you want, but if you do, they should be formatted properly.
Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 18:10, 28 July 2017 (UTC)Reply
Dear Μετάknowledge, thanks for the clarification. I thought that that I always have to include links in the article to prove the existence of the word. Now I moved the three links to Talk:Kotzefresser. Is this acceptable?--Hyperhero (talk) 18:25, 28 July 2017 (UTC)Reply
That's fine. Again, if you want to include them in the entry as quotations, you can do that following the guidelines at WT:QUOTE. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 19:58, 28 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Your site edit

made me smile. I'd help out by translating the Hyperhero poem except my German is so terrible there are a couple of lines I don't even understand. Equinox 20:39, 30 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for reading my site. I hope you liked it. By the way, at http://www.hyperhero.com/en/poem.htm there is already an English version of the poem.--Hyperhero (talk) 20:49, 30 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Some notes edit

-84.161.36.86 03:12, 3 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

Dear 84.161.36.86 84.161.36.86, Thanks for correcting the words with after-. Now I improved Citations:Analbohrer.--Hyperhero (talk) 03:50, 3 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

My template edit

==German==

===Etymology===
From {{compound|de||t1=||t2=}}.

===Noun===
{{de-noun|m}}

# {{lb|de|vulgar|offensive}}

====Declension====
{{de-decl-noun-m|s}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:Duden}}
* []
* []


from wikt:en:User:Hyperhero/My-template

List edit

This is a list of German Schimpfwörter/insults/etc. I uploaded this list so that I can easily see which of these words are already included in the Wiktionary (blue links), and which ones might be considered for inclusion (red links).