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Again, welcome! —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 03:45, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Welcome!

It's great that you want to translate LOTR, but just keep in mind that this is a dictionary, not a forum. You can help out by improving or adding entries for words of any language you're comfortable enough with. --WikiTiki89 03:46, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I was wondering if what I was doing was acceptable. Am I breaking any rules by using it as I am? I only have a wish to do what is right. Any correction I will gladly recieve. | Scio (talk) 03:52, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

I don't know if we have a rule against it, but some admins would not be very happy if you don't contribute much to the actual dictionary. If you use Wiktionary to look up Latin words, you will no doubt find that some are missing or contain errors. Fixing things like that is a great way to contribute. --WikiTiki89 03:58, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

To be sure, I will fix errors as I find them. However, should I ask about something before I go editing it, especially as a new recruit? | Scio (talk) 04:02, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

It's easier to just start editing and get corrected as you go. But if you need resources, there are bunch of links in the welcome message above (although some of that information is heavily outdated). --WikiTiki89 04:03, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. | Scio (talk) 04:07, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Agreed. I think there was a rule somewhere on some Wiki that just said, "Be bold." In other words, go ahead and make your change, and if it's good, great. If not, someone will correct it and probably explain why. Otherwise nobody would ever get started! --Robert.Baruch (talk) 18:49, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Latin nouns

Hi there. There is no need to add inflected forms of Latin nouns manually. We have a bot that (eventually) does it automajically. SemperBlotto (talk) 15:24, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Very well, I will keep that in mind. Thank you for letting me know. | Scio (talk) 15:47, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

What other Latin parts of speech can you do this for? It would save a lot of time to not have to go through the verb forms. | Scio (talk) 15:50, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Adjectives and verbs. It doesn't automatically find the adjectives though - if they don't get done you can ask at User:SemperBlottoBot/feedme. SemperBlotto (talk) 15:55, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for the help. | Scio (talk) 16:02, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Tolkienian Latin Lexicon

May I suggest that you post these on a dedicated page such as User:Scio/Tolkienian Latin Lexicon? Also, in Tolkeinian literature, I believe hobbit is supposed to be derived from "hole builder" (see the last bit of the etymology at hobbit#Etymology 1. Maybe you could come up with a good concise way to say "hole builder" in Latin, rather than "little person". --WikiTiki89 16:03, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Ah, I didn't know you could make pages like that; I will be moving these to a new page.

Also- I didn't know the etymology for Hobbit, so thank you for telling me. I guess I should look into these things more. I will see what I can do about "hole builder." Once again, thank you for your insight. | Scio (talk) 16:12, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

I reckon you have the wrong etymology for Westmarch — the sense is not iter but more like limes, AFAICT. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 01:03, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

You are correct. I just now found a site that contains etymologies for Tolkienian words [1]; I will be using it. Than you for the guidance. | Scio (talk) 01:35, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

De Bello Gallico

You might be interested in this thing that I was fooling around with to help me understand De Bello Gallico. --Robert.Baruch (talk) 18:49, 24 November 2013 (UTC)

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Thank you, I will be looking through this. | Scio (talk) 14:48, 25 November 2013 (UTC)

Creating new pages

Hello. When you create a new page, it can actually be better to leave the "edit summary" blank. Then the contents of the new page will be shown in Recent Changes, which is more useful than something like "New entry created". Thanks. Equinox ◑ 17:00, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

I suppose it would be. Thank you for letting me know. | Scio (talk) 17:08, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

I just wanted to let you guys know that I, formerly Scio, have changed to the unified account of User:IACOBVS.CELSUS | IACOBVS.CELSVS (talk) 19:42, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

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00:05, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

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