Wiktionary talk:What Wiktionary is not

I landed here from "Wiktionary:Most common wiktionary faux pas." The material here makes little sense in that context. I seldom see people doing many of the things alluded to here. I would cite RFD as a fertile source of faux pas, but I ought not go further.

Add section about the prescriptive vs. descriptive debate?

Though most people around here think of this as a descriptive dictionary (rather than prescriptive or normative), I haven't been able to find this written down anywhere. Would this be a good place to at least talk about prescription and description in dictionaries? Or maybe on Help:FAQ? --Bequw → ¢ • τ 18:45, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I've been thinking of writing Wiktionary:Descriptivism, but haven't got round to it yet. Feel free to pre-empt me, either here there or at a better title. Conrad.Irwin 01:14, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

No thanks, we've got plenty to do already! ;) I'm looking forward to seeing the page. --EncycloPetey 01:38, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Wiktionary is not an encyclopedia

There is quite a debate over at wikipedia over what information goes in wiktionary and what goes in wikipedia. Some input from wiktionary people would probably be very helpful at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_is_not_a_dictionary .

Reading that, do we have any home for information like w:Fallacies of definition?--Bequw → ¢ • τ 08:16, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Warnings for edits of good faith?

"administrators don't usually issue warnings unless edits are clearly made in good faith." --anon

It means that if a bad edit appears to be made in good faith, the administrators will warn the user that made the edit about it. If not made in good faith, no warning is issued but action is usually taken against that user instead. —CodeCat 16:37, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

I just came across this now (admittedly quite a long time later), and it tripped me up too. Maybe "don't usually issue warnings (preferring to take more direct actions) unless edits are clearly made in good faith", or something? Throne3d (talk) 15:21, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

I changed the sentence. --Utonsal (talk) 17:21, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you 2001:9E8:2302:F600:FA7B:38C5:212C:94EC 00:11, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Regarding this sentence...

Read a sentence in #10 (the last part) of the main list of what Wiktionary is not. It says:

Although one could look up être at fr.wiktionary (fr:être), its definition will be in French. So if that person doesn’t speak any French, they still wouldn’t know what être meant, and it wouldn’t be of any help to them.

However, don't you know that you can translate a page?? Go to (any entry on) the French Wiktionary and click on the Translate button of the "Translate this page" dialog box. Did whoever write this sentence think of this comment?? Georgia guy (talk) 22:39, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Automatic translation in browsers became widespread only after that was written, and besides to this day they are not very reliable, especially for shorter texts (such as what a dictionary tends to have). — surjection ⟨?⟩ 22:59, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Can anyone alter this sentence to include information on using such a translator to the "Wiktionary is not just for English" message?? Georgia guy (talk) 23:07, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

It's not a good idea precisely because such translators are not reliable and likely will never be. — surjection ⟨?⟩ 23:21, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

So perhaps you could add Moreover, one could go to a page on the French Wiktionary and click on a "Translate" button from a dialog box, such an event might not translate it perfectly. or something like that. Georgia guy (talk) 23:30, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

That has nothing to do with the intent of the page. It's not going to happen. DTLHS (talk) 23:36, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Add "Wiktionary is not a place to dump your conlang's lexicon" to list

Although Wiktionary is not just for English, that doesn't mean that your own personal non-notable constructed language gets to be included in Wiktionary. 173.230.18.196 17:20, 1 December 2019 (UTC)