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Saluton! Jonathan Webley 16:45, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Citations

Nice work, keep at it. Mglovesfun (talk) 06:47, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Question about the citation for eraris: Is there a translator to credit? A publication? A date is not enough to identify a source for a citation. --EncycloPetey 03:40, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. I've formatted the quotation to more usual standards, although we don't have a set way to cite the name of the translator (as far as I know). We do put the date first in bold, and try to avoid abbreviations (even for page). We also bold both the word being demonstrated, as well as its translation. Translations are usually set inside quotation marks, but that's not universal. If you plan to add a lot of translations, I suggest keeping a list of model pages to refer to, or creating some models somehwere. I found that doing so helped me a lot when I was first learning Wiktionary format. If there are specific sources that you plan to quote from heavily, it is also possible to set up a template for that source to save on typing. We have conventions for naming these, but once you learn the basics, it's easy to understand. --EncycloPetey 05:12, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Citations:Schadenfreude

Those don't qualify for inclusion as citations of the English word, since the quotations explicitly call the term "German". The word needs to be used in English, and not discussed as a foreign word. --EncycloPetey 23:25, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Citations and lemmas

The lemma form, where the definition is, is also where we put citations for all inflected forms, because they all serve to support the lemma. We only put citations on inflected forms if there is any doubt they they exist, or exist in that form. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 18:50, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

I don't think there is any consensus for that. I think accuracy in reporting about what "we" do is quite important, and would like to ask everyone to lift their standards as high as possible as far as that. In case of doubt, phrasing like "I prefer X since Y" is preferable. --Dan Polansky (talk) 14:53, 25 June 2016 (UTC)