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Again, welcome! Wyang (talk) 21:41, 12 June 2018 (UTC)

Hakka

Hi, I'm excited to see more people interested in Hakka. It's really lacking here on Wiktionary. I just wanted to know what romanization you're using for Meixian Hakka because it seems really different from what we're using here on Wiktionary (do1 qia4 --> do1 ta4?). — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 21:53, 13 June 2018 (UTC)

Cantonese

Hi, thanks for adding Cantonese pronunciations to the entries. I've been going through some of these edits, and most of them look fine, but some of them are just outright wrong. Take 文運 as an example - why did you think 文 is read as man4-2? I'm not sure how you come up with the pronunciations, but I just wanted to remind you to be more careful. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 04:18, 18 June 2018 (UTC)

Making entries

Hi, I just wanted to bring a few things to your attention:

• {{zh-forms}} is mandatory in Chinese entries.
• We generally want to have pronunciations for Chinese entries. If you don't know the pronunciation, you can use {{rfp}} to request pronunciations.
• All entries should be able to pass WT:CFI. Some of the English entries you've made for Chinese place names may be too obscure to satisfy the criteria.

— justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 05:11, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Cantonese pronunciations

Hey- I see that you've been adding Cantonese pronunciations to some of the entries I have made. Is there a way I could do this automatically so that you don't have to go back and add it to every new article I make? Thanks for your time. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 12:06, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

@Geographyinitiative: Any automatic pronunciation based on the concatenation of the pronunciation of the characters would be bound to have mistakes, so if you don't know Cantonese, it would be dangerous to have such a feature. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 04:15, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Hakka 食夜無

Are you sure this is the same as 晩安, used when parting or before sleep? It seems like a greeting when you meet someone, like 晩上好. It would seem very rude to ask someone if they've had dinner when parting. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 01:37, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Minor edits

Please do not mark all your edits as minor edits. Most of these edits involve big changes, like moving definitions from translingual to Chinese or unifying Cantonese and Mandarin entries into Chinese. IMO even adding Cantonese pronunciations is not a minor edit. This would help other editors get notified when you change something in their watchlist. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 08:28, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

勝英

As already mentioned above, please don't concatenate or infer Cantonese pronunciations. sing1 jing1 is very unlikely to be the correct pronunciation. Wyang (talk) 10:04, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

{{also}} for trad/simp forms

Hi there. I've seen that you've been adding {{also}} to Chinese entries for trad/simp forms. You don't really need to do that because there are bots that do that. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 12:40, 29 July 2018 (UTC)