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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Equinox 18:01, 29 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

To-do list edit

I just had a basic crack at some of your list. Feel free to improve:

Equinox 19:21, 15 July 2021 (UTC)Reply

Excellent job, especially finding quotes for ‘ozzie’. Thanks! Overlordnat1 (talk) 21:34, 15 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
Re "not much in it": is this the same "in" as "there might be something in that" (i.e. good idea)? Thus should be covered at "in" somehow? Equinox 10:34, 1 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
That’s an interesting take on things. I was thinking about using ‘in it’ to refer to a difference in time or distance, such as ‘I nearly travelled as far as I did last time but there’s not much in it’ or ‘I nearly went as quickly as last time but there’s not much in it’ but if we take it to mean that the distance is unimportant then I suppose it is the same sense, as ‘there’s something in it’ means ‘there’s something important in it’. On the other hand you could replace ‘it’ with something like ‘what he’s saying’ in the sentence ‘there’s something in it’ but what could you replace ‘it’ with in the phrase ‘there’s not much in it’? ‘not much in it’ and ‘something in it’ both feel idiomatic rather than SOP to me but perhaps they could be dealt with by adding to the in or in it entries? Overlordnat1 (talk) 10:58, 1 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

Admin powers edit

Hey. Would you like to get admin powers? I can set up a vote for you GreyishWorm (talk) 12:01, 17 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

It would be an honour to get such a promotion, as it were. If I did become an administrator, I’d behave consensually and responsibly. I hereby accept your offer. Overlordnat1 (talk) 12:16, 17 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
Awesome. Please accept at Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2022-11/User:Overlordnat1 for admin GreyishWorm (talk) 13:56, 17 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

macaroni edit

Can you change the first ===Etymology=== to ===Etymology 1=== and "nest" everything inside both etymology sections accordingly? Thanks! Amusingly, I noticed this not by seeing your edit, but by happening to be going through a semi-regular WT:TODO check for instances of "Etymology 2" without a preceding "Etymology 1", ha. - -sche (discuss) 18:59, 31 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

-sche Done (I think). --Overlordnat1 (talk) 20:43, 31 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

Ring ring goes the bell... edit

Grow up, this is not elementary school. This kind of edit summary ain't doing it.

Where did you get that from, that people calling for Israel to leave the occupied territories but still support its continued existence don’t normally consider themselves to be Zionist, nor are they usually considered to be such by others?

I mean, there are whole parties like Yesh Atid or Meretz which show reserves to further colonization the West Bank, yet still refer to themselves as Zionist. Shoshin000 (talk) 14:04, 16 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

On top of that, just continuation of a Jewish state in Israel in its current territory or Israeli expansion is semantically redundant. There is no 'or'. Israeli expansion by itself implies the continuation of a state in the area. It's like saying "paying with money or cash". Shoshin000 (talk) 14:07, 16 April 2024 (UTC)Reply