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—Ruakh_TALK 11:23, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

The {{quote-whatever}} templates

Hello Korodzik -- Thank you for your recent contributions. You certainly seem to be quite a sophisticated editor for a new arrival. I notice that you have been reformatting some quotations to use the {{quote-whatever}} templates. Although I greatly admire User:Visviva (who created many of these templates), you should be aware that some of us are not unconditional fans of these templates and we deliberately do not use them. There are minor formatting inconsistencies in them and the exact results they produce become unpredictable over time as editors (with varying degrees of lexicographical skill) make changes to them. Again, thanks for your contributions. -- WikiPedant 15:52, 5 September 2009 (UTC)

PS: Please note, as at nether region, that it is possible to retain wikipedia links for authors' names even if one uses the templates.

copypasta

Excellent entry. Because the word itself is not to my taste, I was ready to RfV it, but you have shown it to be real. I checked the inflected forms' spellings and they are more or less as the template has it (there are sometimes ' and - to separate last syllables). I wouldn't bother adding all of that. Each form would apparently be attestable too. Great job. DCDuring TALK 17:41, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

I am curious as to how you picked up our ways so quickly. Were you active on pl.wikt? DCDuring TALK 17:50, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Nope, but I'm quite a veteran with Wikipedia, and besides Wiktionary fascinated me so much that I quickly read most of the regulations. Korodzik 18:51, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

I wish that most people would take the trouble. BTW, I/we know those "rules", mostly WT:ELE and WT:CFI can certainly use help. Do you have any thoughts about how they can be bad more intelligible without changing substance? Were there any parts of the substance that seemed particularly hard to understand in themselves or that seemed irrational. Your fresh perspective could be valuable. DCDuring TALK 20:23, 15 September 2009 (UTC)