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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Acolyte of Ice (talk) 12:42, 27 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

Arabic entry edit

Please be careful when adding entries. You created an Arabic entry for تلمسان‎, but you used the language codes en and de in various templates for some reason. Acolyte of Ice (talk) 12:42, 27 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

Linking to images edit

I don't know about other language Wiktionaries, but here on the English one including images in entries is done with the "File" prefix, as per my edit. Acolyte of Ice (talk) 13:22, 27 March 2023 (UTC)Reply

Adding "+" to translations edit

The "+" is strictly for adding a link to an entry with the same spelling as that of the translation on the Wiktionary for the language of the translation. At genetics, you changed the Arabic translations to {{t+|ar|عِلْمُ وِرَاثَة|m}} and {{t+|ar|وِرَاثِيَّات|p}}. That added links to the pages ar:علم وراثة and ar:وراثيات at Arabic Wiktionary- neither of which exist. There is a bot that periodically adds and removes these, or I would have reverted your edit. Chuck Entz (talk) 00:56, 29 October 2023 (UTC)Reply