Theornamentalist

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Copyright violations

Your definitions appear to be copied verbatim from the Pirate Dictionary. This is illegal, and unless it's out of copyright, you should remove or rephrase them. Ƿidsiþ 15:31, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

• The ones I checked were purser rigged and parish damned and pitcher-bawd. Surely you know if you're copying them or not? Ƿidsiþ 15:35, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

  As I said, it's the definition which is the issue. They are (as I said) verbatim from an apparenrtly copyrighted book. Ƿidsiþ 15:41, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

OK, well the changes you indicated seem fine to me. Thanks. Ƿidsiþ 04:56, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

purser rigged and parish damned

This looks like an adjective to me. Can you find any Google hits for a plural? SemperBlotto 16:37, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

sailing . . .

These entries are the present participle of verbs, You can't define them as "to . . .". Perhaps you should move them to "sail . . .", or change the definitions. SemperBlotto 07:03, 22 July 2010 (UTC)