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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Ultimateria 02:14, 21 March 2011 (UTC)

self-pub

Hi. This is not an "alternative form", but a synonym. Equinox ◑ 20:09, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

street money

Please look at how I changed the formatting of the citation, so you can get it right in future. In particular, don't put the quoted text in italics: that's for made-up usage examples, not real citations. Thanks. Equinox ◑ 17:32, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Wikisaurus

Thank you for your recent Wikisaurus contributions, e.g. the expansion of Wikisaurus:musician‎.

One note on excessive specificity, IMHO anyway: I don't think we need WS:dictionary and WS:thesaurus given we already have WS:reference work and Wikisaurus:literature. Instead of creating WS:dictionary, I would find it preferable to have WS:reference work expanded. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:00, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

I'm pretty agnostic on Wikisaurus:thesaurus, I think it's useful but I wouldn't be upset if it were deleted. Wikisaurus:dictionary is pretty interesting I think, and has some synonyms I think a lot of people aren't aware of, so I'd rather keep that one. WurdSnatcher (talk) 13:43, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Ok. I think the synonyms of Wikisaurus:dictionary can be covered by WS:reference work, which already has multiple of them. Nonetheless, I redirected WS:thesaurus to WS:reference work, and I'll leave WS:dictionary be for the time being. --Dan Polansky (talk) 13:49, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Thai stick

Would you be able to create Thai stick in the mainspace? I see you have added this to Wikisaurus. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:02, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

banjo

I copied from OED. What is wrong with "Negro slave"? --Vahag (talk) 08:39, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Compound words

When adding etymologies, could you use the appropriate templates? This helps keep things organised and properly categorized. For compound words, please use {{compound}}, like I did at townmate. Thank you! —CodeCat 14:08, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

See also my edits to punklike and dan nhi. —CodeCat 14:15, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

AAVE

If you don’t mind me asking, are you African? --Romanophile ♞ (contributions) 04:36, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

schwag, shwag

Hi. This is presumably only used for the slang "style" sense, and not e.g. for stolen money, so please add appropriate glosses. Equinox ◑ 18:10, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

Can you please add some cites?

Hi there, and thank you for your help!

Can you please add some citations, for your new entry, at pile on ?

Thank you,

-- Cirt (talk) 16:44, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Stuff like argue into

Hi! I think maybe you're not totally sure about how prepositions work. Can I ask that you discuss with the community before adding further entries like this? One rule of thumb is: can you move the "preposition" after the noun phrase (pick up the pen, pick the pen up); that's a good sign of a fixed phrase. But if it's something like "leave pens throughout the country", then "leave throughout" probably shouldn't have an entry. Equinox ◑ 03:21, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Let the reader work out the meanings from the individual words, and improve those words if needed. If we wanted to cater for readers who literally can't put two words together, we'd end up with black car, red house and so on. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:18, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

bianzhou

Where did you find this term? I can't find it anywhere in either English or Chinese. ---> Tooironic (talk) 12:07, 21 January 2016 (UTC)