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magneettidipoli

This has been in CAT:E for a couple of days, but at the time it was hidden among hundreds of other entries. Now that we've cleared those, it's sticking out like a sore thumb. It looks like a simple matter of adding a couple of empty parameter slots, but I know nothing about Finnish declension so I don't feel comfortable doing it myself. Thanks! Chuck Entz (talk) 20:24, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

 Fixed, and sorry - should have caught that myself. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 20:33, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Is someone gonna look at the word request article?

??? TheguyinterestedinstuffIG (talk) 22:23, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

A few etymologies that discredit the etymology section of Wiktionary

Greetings: I hope that you are paid for the hard work in keeping Wiktionary protected from vandalism. My policy had been to make minimal adjustments to etymologies that are plainly wrong and so a few comments on those that downgrade Wiktionary are necessary. Firstly, my addition of Gaelic CRAOBH (branch) as a cognate was a breach of rule 6, that states: "Do not be tempted to pioneer etymologies and ....". Although I believe it to be true to be derived from the same P.I.E. root as that previously presented, I know of no back up source to confirm this; so my due apologies, and that was block worthy. True, some of my initial edits eight years ago had to be reverted on three counts: 1/ no reliable source was available to back them; 2/ the edit formatting was either absent or deplorably inadequate and 3/ no steps were provided in their etymological paths. Although you have no control over what users/editors may do about Wiktionary during extended periods of blocking, I did not take advantage of that and pursue my original plan to form my own etymological dictionary, including a point system for each word, to maximise confidence in the readers. I am spending time typing all this for the health of Wiktionary's etymological sections. It is plainly evident that some of the etymologies were copied at face value from normally very reliable dictionaries without scrutinising the roots and only adding those that are logical.

To illustrate this we have: Proto-Finnic *lambas, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *lambaz. Now, if applying the etymologist's knowledge that the Germanic peoples settled peacefully in their area, whereas their invasion was as conquests in Britain, they would know that the while English form is certainly from Proto-Germanic *lambaz, but that form is likely to be substrate, because the Proto-Finnic form is derive in two parts, the first syllable of the older Proto-Finnic *lambas (as a bi-form is likely to be from a root meaning 'to skip, to jump' (found in the Cornish substrate LAMM (leap, bound) and the latter BAS from VAS of an ancient stock in that area akin to Proto-North Caucasian *ɫVmbagV ‘sheep’ (only in Avaro-Andian and Lezghian), (according to the Academia education - but, with no other reliable evidence as to the origin of the components parts of this bi-form and not a root in itself - it cannot be added to the main page). That the grotesquely fabricated reconstruction Proto-Indo-European *h₁l̥h₁onbʰos is a combination of two roots and never even existed is glaringly obvious to any qualified etymologist who has studied the acceptable P.I.E. reconstructions. The earliest root presented is logical however, as the root of the Greek and Celtic forms. When you have been into etymologies for 50 years you readily recognise those that are wildly inaccurate; and it is not just myself, but a woman at a conference with considerable more weight stated that a number Wiktionary etymologies are wrong. The next one is: Welsh AELWYD (fireplace), borrowed from Old English ǣled (whence also Cornish oles, Breton oaled), from Proto-Germanic *ailidaz.

However, that is better than when I last saw it, where it stated that the Welsh form was from Proto-Germanic 'ailą́'and began with a false conclusion and went down hill from there. The Proto-Germanic form is not listed under the P.I.E. root, *h₂eydʰ- (“to burn”). The Old English forms (three of them) may be derived from the Proto-Germanic substrate or else be substrates themselves as cognates with the Scandinavian forms: ILDE and ELDE; but the Breton form cannot be from P.G. or from Anglo-Saxon, because the Celts moved over there from Cornwall in the sixth century, before there could be any chance of P.G. or Anglo-Saxon influence! A Proto-Celtic reconstruction has been formulated, but although logical, this appears rather fabricated. The Cornish word ELVEN probably originally meant 'flint' - literally 'fire stone'. With the considerable variation of the spellings of the forms in the Celtic dialects, they are most likely to be derived from some pre-Celtic stock. Kroonen is clearly biased towards P.G. roots.

Although there are other etymologies that defy the necessary logic required to present them on the main pages, there is just one other I need to remark about and that is: Old English adesa, eadesa (compare adosa, adosan), from Proto-Germanic *adisô. Had you left the edit as it was it would not have been so obvious that the P.G. form is wrong, but now it is completely obvious to a fully fledged etymologist that it is so. The forms adosa and adosan are older than adesa, eadesa, according to the Oxford Online Dictionary that traces lexemes back to their earliest available written forms (the older volumes of which are the most reliable of all).

Wiktionary, in addition to all the helpful reconstructions, has a few gems like that of, 'dog' and 'loop'; but it is a shame that generally it only ranks in the upper third for reliability, so I just point out those etymologies that I know discredit the reliability of Wiktionary. Sorry to be so blunt, but it is in the interests of Wiktionary. Happy new year and Regards: Andrew H. Gray 19:39, 3 January 2024 (UTC) Andrew H. Gray 19:39, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

I'm not even going to comment on most of this, but since you're still hung up on this particular case which I feel at least somewhat qualified to comment on: your etymology for the Proto-Finnic term is complete nonsense. You're basically making up parts of words and trying to explain actual words as somehow deriving from them. That isn't how etymology works, no matter how you try to force it. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 19:44, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

Devanagari articles should redirect to other articles written in Devanagari and not articles that are written in Roman Alphabet

This is about the दशरथ page. 2400:1A00:BD20:CB11:6DD5:D193:B437:B4F9 10:12, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

No, they shouldn't. This is the English Wiktionary and definitions have to be in English. If you insist on having links, add them in parentheses after the term instead of inserting completely avoidable non-English text in the middle of a definition. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 10:14, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Rama redirects to रमा sir and not Rāma राम. 2400:1A00:BD20:CB11:6DD5:D193:B437:B4F9 10:25, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Also going by you saying this is the English wiktionary, why are there articles in other languages. E.g. दशरथ, राम, कृष्ण etc? 2400:1A00:BD20:CB11:6DD5:D193:B437:B4F9 10:30, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Because the English Wiktionary documents words from all languages, but they are still documented in English. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 11:05, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Is there any way for adding a redirect to the page written in Hindi/Sanskrit alongside the page written in English? 2400:1A00:BD20:CB11:5484:439D:2758:243 08:43, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

No point in 'redirects'. If you want to have both links, write the non-English link after the English one, in parentheses. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 10:39, 6 January 2024 (UTC)

You people deserve nothing but hell for trying to erase every instance of Indic Culture, Indic Scripts and Hinduism. There is "We are xenophobic" written all over you assholes' head. You westerners will always be the most disrespectful people in this world. 2400:1A00:BD20:CB11:6DD5:D193:B437:B4F9 07:45, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

If you cannot understand the simple concept that the English Wiktionary is supposed to document words in English, then maybe you just shouldn't edit here. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 09:20, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

I am sorry

Sorry for lashing out about that whole Dasharatha article. I was in a really bad mood when I wrote the last reply, and since I've calmed down a lot, I realised I wasted both of our times and I really feel bad about it. Sorry again. 2400:1A00:BD11:8085:1D4E:9A82:A2DD:2DC7 09:10, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

Cyka blyat!

I don't want that page to be deleted. 88.227.46.108 16:02, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

You're free to vote (once) on the RFD. Removing the template isn't going to get you anywhere. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 16:03, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

Range block

Hi Surjection, I tried to ping you on my talk page, User_talk:Polypz, but didn't hear back. It looks like you've blocked me from making edits when using my phone as a WiFi access point, even when logged in. I can't remember which page I was trying to edit, is there a way to find that out? Polypz (talk) 07:41, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

The block is set to allow logged-in users to edit and to allow user creation. If you are not able to log in or edit even while logged in, that would be a software bug. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 09:34, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Concerning the baby entry

Recently the baby word had its first English noun entry changed by someone politically motivated. The previous entry before today's edits included "conception or" before "birth", and it was edited sloppily, removing the link to birth as well. The entry with "conception or" was standing for at least months before it was removed earlier today. I tried to revert it but it was reverted back. mineben256 Mineben256 (talk) 21:41, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

The "from conception..." part is already encompassed by def 3. Nobody is going to argue that the conception is the same thing as birth. A baby is still unborn from conception until it is actually born. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 21:43, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

I agree that in a way it is encompassed by definition 3, but the definition had contained "from conception" for a long time before today. Additionally, entry 3 is also not entirely appropriately encompassing the former entry 1, as it includes all animal unborn young, whereas people use "baby" to speak of human unborn young in a more affectionate way that is uncommon when it comes to animal unborn young. Mineben256 (talk) 21:52, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

That it had something "for a long time before today" means relatively little. The sense you use would best be added as a subsense of 3 or by adding additional wording to the end of the definition. But perhaps the best idea is to open a discussion about it on the Tea Room. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 21:55, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

The qualifier "particularly" means that what follows is merely the core of the meaning, not all of it. While people can and do refer to an unborn human as a baby, that's not the first thing one thinks of when one hears the word without context. The only reason the reference to conception keeps getting added is the focus of the anti-abortion movement on emphasizing the humanity of the unborn. As a descriptive dictionary, we don't take sides on such matters of belief and/or morality. The part about conception isn't central to the meaning, so it's best to leave it out. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:36, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

It was there for at least many months before it was removed. Mineben256 (talk) 22:45, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

The conception should be left out because you can’t do or don’t regularly have to do much with the issue if it is not delivered yet. If anything is done for it then it is with respect to the future result, most sentences about it can be interpreted in the sense from birth: “A baby is still unborn” Surjection says, depending on how you emphasize it you negate that there is a baby before birth and could write an ontology paper, the same applies for our single usage example of sense three “When is your baby due?” – expected to be only later? I am not necessarily convinced that it is not the first sense, how can one distinguish? Also an egg is a chicken and from it chicks hatch – which sense of chicks?

That the shorter view is the basic one and the other a later stretch is firm in a diachronic outlook, since the human ovum was only found by Karl Ernst von Baer in 1827, whereafter the abortion laws got adjusted. Before that one believed in ensoulment 90 days after conception, quickening, delayed animation, which nowadays means something in Javascript, but a rigid thing even then if “early statutes of English common law presumed that a child was born dead in spirit”, Romans waited seven days and in general “for some early cultures a child was not fully human until age seven and thus could be disposed of at any time up until that age” (written by psychotherapist rather than jurist, thus my desire for historical detail was not satisfied); following the thought lines fashionable with demographic transition.

If you look into other dictionaries they dance around the mines, like OED defining as “a very young child”, “formerly also: †a child of any age”: big if true for Wiktionary, but I must claim Wiktionary’s glosses are better anyways. There was some intent of humans in the last two centuries settling on a specific short time frame.

The intent of the present definition was to demarcate the life stages of man when his life is clocked at all, i.e. 0–1 baby, 1–3 toddler, 1–11 child and the like. Because you only indirectly see the unborn human when he “ages”. Babies being unborns is a fringe view that has little merit towards the main definition. I do know about East Asian age reckoning but this has not influenced English, and other languages where the word baby or similar has been acquired. It does not mean the word does not “have the definition”. I could have spoken about “the baby when it ages in the womb” which very much appears like the third sense intuitively, because we are unwont to ascribe processes to subjects which have not yet developed. Yet breviloquence is normal language, normal language breaks down the actual order of things to convey the main points, the biological realities of the mother’s organism nurturing the fetus, the genes making it accept its destiny etc. What to do if it is just an offset? At least one should give appropriate space to the observation that it is an offset, an analogy, additive inverses to the practically positive, because pragmatics. Here we try to untangle how much the human language capacity fools us into generalizing the subject—predicate structure of language into the order of nature: it is not even what humans typically know or typically think even when they employ language. Fay Freak (talk) 04:15, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

@Chuck Entz You're right that it isn't our job to take sides, and I think we should acknowledge that some people use it to refer to that, but I suspect these pages will continually get edited by people trying to push this agenda. For example, I just reverted infant, and I cannot in my life ever remember anyone using that word to refer to a baby before it's born. Theknightwho (talk) 07:37, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Thinking about this some more, I think the current setup with sense 1 being "young human, particularly from birth..." and sense 3 being "unborn young; a fetus" is not right, but I think it's sense 3 which has a problem. Many people use "baby" to refer to a young human from birth to an early age, and sense 1 reflects this. Other people use "baby" in a way that includes not only newborns but also fetuses. But AFAIK no-one uses baby to refer to a fetus alone to the exclusion of a newborn: no-one thinks that a fetus is a baby but stops being a baby once it's born, and that a one-month old is not a baby: i.e. no-one uses sense 3 as written. It's sense 3 we should be revising, to something like "A young creature from conception, through gestation as a fetus, birth, and the earliest period of its life" or some better wording (I'm sure we can think of smoother wording!).

We had the same problem a while ago with prostitute, and before that with marriage: when a word may refer specifically to X, or may include both X and Y, sometimes people try to handle this being having one sense "X" and another sense "Y", even though the term never means "Y" (just Y alone to the exclusion of X), it always means either "X" or "X+Y". (Prostitute has sometimes exclusively meant a female sex worker — at various times, law and culture simply did not consider men who had sex for money to be prostitutes — and at other times, prostitute can encompass male sex workers. So someone saw "female sex worker" as sense 1, and added "male sex worker" as a separate sense. But the term never refers exclusively to male sex workers: it either refers specifically to a female sex worker, or it refers to any sex worker. So I initially folded the "female sex worker" and "male sex worker" senses together into a gender-nonspecific "sex worker" sense, but when Widsith pointed out that in many cases it's only women, now the entry is set up as you see it today.

- -sche (discuss) 21:02, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

pääomanpalautus ja värähtelyttää

Kiitos virheeni korjaamisesta :) Auringonlasku (talk) 21:05, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

Category:Arabic terms derived from Turkish

Why were my changes on the page above reverted? These words are words transferred from Turkish to Arabic, and dictionaries accept them as such. Is the category wrong? Can you explain? H493 (talk) 00:14, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

@H493 This category is added automatically by templates in the etymology sections, but we don't put those templates in entries for inflected and other secondary forms. Look at the conjugation or declension tables: imagine seeing every single one of those forms in the category, then multiply it by every term for the same language. I think most people can figure out that the first person singular of a given word has the same etymology as the second person singular of the same word without having the entire paradigm listed in the category.

So, basically, what you were doing was adding useless clutter to the category by unnecessarily hard-coding things best handled by templates. Chuck Entz (talk) 00:40, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

"Arabic terms derived from Turkish" is for lemmas (not inflected or alternative forms) in al-fusha deriving from modern Turkish. We categorize Ottoman Turkish terms in their own category (Category:Arabic terms derived from Ottoman Turkish) and furthermore many of the Arabic varieties into their own categories as well. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 07:01, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Luzon

Hello, concerning your rollback of my edits on Luzon. I was removing erroneous and unsourced claims that the name of the island of Luzon in the Philippines is from Spanish. It is not from Spanish at all, it's a word that's native to the language of the Philippines, which was referenced in Japanese & Chinese sources before the arrival of the Spanish. Chris S. (talk) 03:30, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

You're not paying attention. The etymology says the name came from native languages by way of Spanish. That's quite common in Filipino etymologies of names: the Spanish would adapt the pronunciation to their phonotactics and adopt a spelling to match, and the Filipinos would pick it up because the Spanish were in charge and they had to deal with them. I'm sure the education system had something to do with it, as well. See, for instance, Category:Tagalog terms borrowed back into Tagalog. Chuck Entz (talk) 05:08, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Mani stone in Finnish

Could and would the term "mani stone" be "manikivi" in Finnish?

Thanks for reading. -- Apisite (talk) 08:45, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

mani-kivi methinks. But I doubt it's attestable either way. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 09:03, 23 January 2024 (UTC)

Tagalog "kalatas" is from Malay

Evidenced by accentuation and meaning.

Comparison:

• kertas -> kalatás
• cermin -> salamín
• percaya -> palatáyà

Malay "kertas" and its variants in Tausug, Maguindanao, and Maranao (relatively un-Christianized and un-Hispanized) all mean paper. The Tausug variant is particularly similar to Tagalog where there is just an elision but the accentuation is the same: kātas, and in Maranao there is only the l-r allophony, giving karatas, while the Maguindanao variant is in between. Brunei Malay, much more recently historically affiliated with Tagalog, has similar accentuation and breaking of consonant clusters with "keratas". The Spanish word "cartas" doesn't just mean "paper", it means "letters" or "epistles". All the Southeast Asian languages mentioned have their variants of "kertas" meaning "paper". So the etymology should point to a Malay origin rather than a Spanish origin. Myrnamyers (talk) 12:38, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

You're the one edit warring to remove all other theories than your own and also apparently haven't even read Wiktionary:About Tagalog#About the language. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 12:41, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

@Myrnamyers Also please use the discussion module first. Other Tagalog editors and I use the module if we have points of contention. I even reached out to you before in your talk page but I get ignored and you can only be communicated through edit logs. We're open to discuss if it really is Malayic but unfortunately there are a lot of sources pointing to Spanish and Malay is just a cognate of the shared origin. Semantic shifts also happen even if the Spanish word meant letters or epistles. Please ping me or other editors that made the entry if you like. Thanks! Also, Tagalog does the same independent of Malay. Example is alakos, from Spanish arcos. Same concept of consonant declustering, r-l correspondence, and a move of stress in the accent.

Ysrael214 (talk) 13:26, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

It was me

I was the one who vandalized Parody about it meaning "Zarathrustian dogwhistle for 'truth'" or something. That IP is for my little brother's iPad. Long story long: While he was playing Splatoon (Wii U children's* shooter game) I told my little brother to try COD (Call of Duty) mode. Because it wasn't real, he asked what is was. I was acting like I was suprised that he had never heard of COD mode, as if everybody knows it. I eventually explained it to him: There is a one in one billion chance that when you speak to Judd, he will ask "Would it please you to seize you?". If you say "Yes", you will be put in a Ranked Battle with COD sound effects and voice chat (Splatoon and COD are the same game, the only difference are the sound effects). He said he didn't believe me and I said that I saw it in a video. I showed him "Top 10 Pplatoon tips (parody)" from Erikson Gaming. He said that the video was a joke 'cause it said "parody" in the title. I said that parody has two definitions: the one he was thinking of; and the one used by the ancient secret society of robots on the dark web known as "Zarathrusta", of which I am a member. He looked up the definition of parody on google and noted that there was no such definition. I told him that my definition could only be found on the "truth dictionary" on the dark web. After some boring arguing, he gave me his iPad and told me to show him the truth dictionary. Upon realizing that Google Chrome iOS doesn't have Inspect Element, I had to vandalize the page to make it look even remotely like the Truth Dictionary wasn't just made up.

Question

Can you look at this talk page? It seems that a user wants something added and I think it's a good addition but an admin needs to do it. 110.150.52.252 06:16, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

You don't need to say "a user" when it's evidently yourself. Bring them up at a centralized forum. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 07:04, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Crapitalism

Why the rollback? 76.107.163.183 22:08, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

I'm rolling back the rollback for now. You may feel my edit is not NPOV, but the term itself is not NPOV, so I think my edit fits. Happy to discuss further :-) 76.107.163.183 22:19, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

Definitions of NPOV terms are still supposed to be worded without a point of view. Yours wasn't. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 07:02, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Example Sentences on Wiktionary Pages

Hello, I mainly use Wiktionary to submit pronunciation audios, but there have been a couple of times when I've wanted to add example sentences for pages on Wiktionary. For example, there was once a time when I wanted to write example sentences for "let oneself go." I typed two sentences because I couldn't decide which would be a better example: "My grandma's wife let herself go; Daddy told me she fell down the tree of ugly and hit multiple branches." and "My big brother claims he knew some pretty girls in high school that really let themselves go and got fat in the last 7 years." I thought these were helpful examples, but somebody deleted them shortly after I submitted them. What can I do to improve my example sentences on Wiktionary so they don't get deleted? Thank you Post Script, I am not an OG on Wikipedia or Wiktionary. I don't edit as frequently, and I've been editing on Wiktionary again after a month of being idle. Flame, not lame (talk) 20:44, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

Wiktionary:Example sentences#Writing good examples may be of assistance. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 21:53, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

why did you roll back my change, it was useful

On Sapristi, I provided a very useful link... a cultural usage. You just blanked it out with no explanation?! 2607:FEA8:3C81:3AD0:6958:FBA:FA3F:78A6 01:42, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

This is a dictionary. We don't do "Cultural references". If you want to provide a quote (in French) to show usage, you would put it on the line after the definition, with #* as the first two characters of the line, and use a template such as {{cite-av}} to format it (If your "quote" is just someone saying "sapristi!", or someone talking about the word, don't bother.) I have it protected for now, but either I or Surjection can unprotect it if it looks like you're going to have something actually worthwile to add. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:24, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Plus the film is Kaleidoscope, not Kaleidoscopes... Theknightwho (talk) 02:36, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for correcting my spekking of Kaleidoscopes. That's a correction you could have made yourself to the actual source instead of deleting my content and then copy protecting the page so that other users can't edit it anymore. Authoritarian much?

You seem to be under the impression we are some kind of hivemind; it's very strange. Theknightwho (talk) 02:23, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Reversion of Angzarr Citations

Hello... could you tell me why you reverted my citations update? The information to which you reverted is incorrect. My update had the latest info. Wshallwshall (talk) 16:51, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

What makes you think it is acceptable to have an encyclopedic entry under the Citations page? — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 16:51, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the reply. I am new to Wiktionary, so was trying to address the inaccuracy of the current citation page content.

Could you offer advice on how to do that? Wshallwshall (talk) 16:59, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Since citation pages aren't really supposed to have anything other than a short definition (enough to figure out what kind of term is being meant), I personally wouldn't mind too much if you just removed it (but leave the citations template, character info and the quote). — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 18:02, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I've done the best I can, but would appreciate any improvements you can make. Wshallwshall (talk) 19:12, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

The main entry has earlier failed a request for verification, so it cannot be re-added without the quotes required by the criteria for inclusion (i.e. three quotes, spanning at least one year, and they must be uses of the term, not mentions). — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 19:17, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Module:et-nominals#L-997

What am I doing wrong here? Joonas07 (talk) 18:32, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Based on the code, get_params seems to only provide .strong and .weak when the gradation parameter is set to true. Since you do not pass it to get_params, it isn't. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 18:40, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

There is length gradation though Joonas07 (talk) 18:58, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

But you don't tell get_params about that. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 19:05, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Ok thanks Joonas07 (talk) 19:28, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

Referencing Episode Names in Quotations

hello, last week I submitted a new Wiktionary page for the phrase put the boom down as in "confront a person or problem or intervene." I tried to add a quotation from that phrase being used on an episode of Hoarders. I was able to write that this phrase was mentioned on an episode of Hoarders in the year 2012, but I don't know how to specify that it was from the episode Mary/Annie when Mary was talking. do you know how to add what episode this quote was from? Thank you Flame, not lame (talk) 19:30, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Please try using {{quote-av}}. It should provide the necessary features. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 19:52, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Recent revert

Did you even read my edit summary? A word being included in a major dictionary pretty much means it's attested no?

Even if you like Word's edits in general, you have to admit in this case they're clearly in the wrong. 178.120.2.213 20:46, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

RFDs aren't simply a matter of "attestation", and indeed they basically never should be (that is what RFVs are for). However, the RFD discussion is still open, and removing the template isn't going to magically make it go away. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 20:48, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Weird Sanskrit articles

Some time ago, I noticed that we have a bunch of articles on personal names of characters from Hindu mythology. The definitions are often undeciferable for a foreigner and obviously encyclopedic. I edited a few, and promptly had my edits reverted [1] by a new user that focuses on Sanskrit. What do you think about this? I don't know anything about Indian culture, but those articles don't seem to fit the Wiktionary style. brittletheories (talk) 22:34, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

@Brittletheories They're copy-pastes from Monier-Williams' Sanskrit dictionary, and should either be corrected into a comprehensible format or removed entirely. @Rau6590 - please do not blindly revert these, because the definitions you've been restoring are not in an acceptable state for Wiktionary. Theknightwho (talk) 22:37, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

Problem with Template:pl-pronunciation

I recently noticed that this template does not produce the correct rhyme categories if the stress is anything other than penultimate (such as here: Jujuy). Could you fix this? İʟᴀᴡᴀ–Kᴀᴛᴀᴋᴀ (talk) (edits) 15:51, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

I haven't worked on that module code in a long time - I'd recommend asking for help at WT:GP. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 16:05, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

PIE pronunication

Why did you revert my request for a pronunication chart? HistorienCanadien (talk) 16:22, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

We customarily do not list pronunciations for reconstructed languages. Besides, any pronunciation request should be made using the correct template ({{rfp}}), anyway, not by adding ad hoc text in the middle of an entry. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 16:26, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Im sorry im new to editing on wiktionary, could you add it using the correct template? It would be very helpful HistorienCanadien (talk) 16:29, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

As I said, we don't customarily give pronunciations for reconstructed languages, because there is no way to know for sure. In addition, there is a lot of disagreement about the phonetics of PIE, and so we'd have to list several pronunciations. In the end it's just not helpful. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 16:30, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Since there is no way for sure i was thinking of adding charts with sections of all posible phonetic values like *e, *ǵ, *h₂ etc. Would that work? HistorienCanadien (talk) 16:35, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

That was one of my points - that any chart like that is not going to be useful due to how large and filled with uncertainty it is. And even then all of its data is still probably going to be "wrong" in the sense that none of it is how it would've been pronounced in reality. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 16:40, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Well it was worth a shot HistorienCanadien (talk) 16:42, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Hindia

When you are really sure my edit is not correct, then you should add correct etymology when you are reverting it.

Greetings. Abirtel (talk) 05:26, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

I disagree with this notion. It is better to have no information than to have wrong information. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 08:58, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

But attributing anything wrong is not fair untill you replace that with right!

If Hindustan became Indostan in greek,

Then term Hindiyyah became India

How I am wrong in etymological point of view?

Greetings. Abirtel (talk) 16:25, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

You've already been explained this in WT:ES - it doesn't become any more correct the more you repeat it. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 16:26, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

But your correction is out of facts, illogical and irrational! Abirtel (talk) 08:10, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

No, it isn't. Just drop it - you're not going to be able to convince anyone but yourself. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 08:11, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Snob Hill

Can you undelete Snob Hill? It was created by a blocked IP, but the entry looked valid, I just added a quotation and then it was gone. Jberkel 08:08, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

 Done — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 08:11, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Reversion

Thank you for reverting my edit if it distorted all the previous sections - I cannot think why it should have done this - that is why I reverted it a few minutes ago, assuming that the gross upset of the paragraphs (which would have amounted to gross vandalism!) was not actually due to my edit; so my sincere apologies for this! I was just trying to add the reference from Academa as to the Old Caucasion stem, Proto-North Caucasian *ɫVmbagV ‘sheep’ (only in Avaro-Andian and Lezghian), for the latter syllable, that may not be directly related to Proto-Finnic anyway.

From a linguistic point of view, you stated in your Babel list that English was almost your first language; it is my first language. Does that give me a slight advantage over you? Absolutely not! It is, or should be shameful that it is my first language; since, apart from self-glorification of Classical and Greek borrowings et cetera, it is now merely the dregs of one of the finest Germanic languages, Anglo-Saxon. It is the most irrational language I have ever come across, both in pronunciation and in its idioms, and, as for the long vowels their so-called pronunciation evolution makes them all stand out as oddities, unless you believe that the long 'A' Gallic sound be authentic as possibly used by servants and centuries ago accepted into Middle English as its basic sound. Kind Regards, Andrew 10:57, 29 March 2024 Andrew H. Gray 11:03, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

*lanci and Estonian

I'm not the same anonymous person whom did the edits, but I am native from the region (Läänemaa) and would like to give some comments.

I'm unaware of that "laas” in contemporary Estonian would mean anything as described at there. Nowadays it's synonym of "ürgmets” - it isn't associated with "swamp”, "bog”, "wetland" at all. As a forest, it is though of as type of "segamets" which typically may contain coniferous trees (okaspuu), but it's not granted - it isn't type of the "coniferous forest" (okasmets). This should be controllable from Estonian dictionaries, and I think also from "Estonian -> another language" dictionaries.

I know the lowland, which may get regularly flooded by tides, as "lans"/"lansi pealne”, while neither as "laan" or as "lontsik" - all of the three are distinct from oneanother for me.

As for "lontsik", yes it's a real term, and we do use it around here. I was highly surprised that the term doesn't seem to occur in most of the general dictionaries of Estonian and to this day had thought of the term as common and regular term throughout the Estonian (it occurs in the newspapers for instance). However, we associate it as "lontsima" + "-ik" (there's also alternations like "lantsik", "lõntsik, and all of those without the "-ik". As far as I know, "lontsik” is pushed aside all other accents by now.

The meaning behind the lontsik is ... well, it's a seasonal phenomena in relation to a patch of land, and perhaps closer to the concepts of quicksand and rasputitsa: highly soiled dirt on a particular patch ground which in certain periods throughout the year - for longer and more so than the surrounding land - thus "softer" ground in contrast to the rest which surrounds it. It has actually to do with composition of the dirt and underlying ground rather than the part of the land being any lower from it's surroundings.

That said, the "lontsik”, namely the "lonts” does appear suspiciously approximate to Livonian one here, and honestly, even though I'm no etymologist nor linguist, even for me there seems to be rather notable similarity between "lënc-i" and "lonts-ik" (ë > o , or a , or õ ; c ~> tš > ts), even if purely coincidental (interesting nonetheless). But then, we ourselves around here associate it with the stem that is present in "lonts-i-ma".

Perhaps some aspects which would deserve being explained in the respective articles, if not for more, than to avoid future confusions or confrontations. 91.129.111.224 04:50, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

EMS lists laas 4. as "vesine madal maa; veelomp" - something like that is probably what the etymological work I used for reference bases it on. As for lontsik, it simply cannot regularly derive from *lanci. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 08:59, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes, but EMS is lexicon of Estonian dialects - most of the dialects don't even have any speakers anymore, and a whole lot which is listed there have became absolute even among the respective dialect speakers.

Kihnu for instance indeed still have usage for it (arguably, usage with asterisks on it) - but that's also rather highly regional (and even I, being actually familiar with the dialect, by reading in text struggle to differ in cases of wether "Üese nda paelu satn, et luanõd muas" translate as "Öösel on nii palju sadanud, et laaned maas" or instead "Öösel on nii palju sadanud, et lained maas” — note that "sadas nii palju, et maa lainetab" is something fairly common to say in Estonian - Kihnu included).

Personally I find it rational for explaining the etymology and development history on how the shifts in the meaning within a particular language have developed over the time, but it would be as sensible to then give explanation that such definition is obsolete or regional for the modern usage of the language (arguably an usecase, for why explaining the etymology has relevant place at the word's respective section at for its particular language, and shouldn't be deleted that light handedly).

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But in parallel those meanings are obsolete in contemporary Estonian, which has become the native for the vast majority of the Estonian speakers - in terms of ekk, EKI itself recommends to use sõnaveeb as the main dict(ionary, considering othe)rs dated.

Personally I don't disagree over etymology of "lontsik" (nor couldn't really even if wanted do, for not having sufficient knowledge nor understanding of the discipline) - again, we ourselves whom use the word, associate it with the "lontsima” (to move slowly ~ hard/slow to move through) - sõnaveeb claim onomatopoeic origin to it (lontima), and so does ETY which additionally offers possible relationship with (dialectical) Finnish "lonsua" and "lonsia", as well as with additional stems in Estonian itself: "lentsima", "lõntse", "löntsima", "lontima" (and then there are dialects, accents, and regional vernaculars of those).

It because long again, hopefully I weren't overly annoying... 91.129.111.224 18:04, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

侗台, 侗臺

In simple and traditional chinease only 侗台。 2001:B011:9801:179F:3D:726E:3281:74AC 15:19, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Revert

Why did you revert my edits of सुमित्रा (sumitrā) to the one by theknightwho, there is no reason to put (Mythological character), I don't see anyone calling Moses a mythological character, this is pure anti-hinduism. Rau6590 (talk) 06:41, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Are you this same editor? Again, it's completely unhelpful to fill the definitions for entries with Sanskrit terms in Devanagari. This is the English Wiktionary which means that definitions are given in English. By the way, you don't "own" your pages just because you created them. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 06:43, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Yes, I am that same editor, but I created the page before you and I had that conversation and I never claimed to have owned the page, I just don't want (Mythological character), because as I just said, I don't see anyone calling Moses a Mythological character. Rau6590 (talk) 06:49, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Then remove or reword that part. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 06:50, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Finnish Declension template

The template does not seem to work for the kahdeksas-paperi -combination. If it's not too much trouble, I would like to ask you to fix that part.

{{fi-decl-kahdeksas-paperi|neljä|ä|tuomar|a|pos1=adj}} Hekaheka (talk) 13:04, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done These aren't actually too hard to create. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 13:05, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

I guess they aren't, but I'm already 70 and learning the code would be too much trouble. --Hekaheka (talk) 20:42, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

I understand, but I designed these 'combination' declension templates in such a way that one only has to copy the code from another template and change the list of classes in the source code. But I suppose any template code can seem too daunting to bother trying. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 20:45, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

unblock ⚦

could you unblock? the 3 characters covered there aren't demonstrated to mean the same thing and shouldn't be merged. kwami (talk) 05:40, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Considering the trouble you've been causing at single-character entries previously, I'd rather have someone review the changes you're planning to make. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 06:58, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Remove the info boxes for other symbols. Remove def [2], which has failed verification for years. Note that tilted ⛢ is an allograph in alchemical use. Add illustrations of the symbol in use, such as the flag hanging in the US Library of Congress. kwami (talk) 08:11, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

I've downgraded it for now. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 09:07, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. kwami (talk) 09:09, 16 April 2024 (UTC)