Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Full etymologies (2)/reply (9)

Okay, well I am very much against duplication. But the reader’s needs come first, and so we have quotations and cites of books that are repeated in numerous entries and their citation pages.

If it makes sense to split up the etymological tree by language, then we should discuss this and write a simple guideline. But I don’t know if it serves the reader to force her to click through a branching tree of a half-dozen or more entries, which can’t even be followed in a single chain and including red links, just to take in something that can be expressed in a single sentence or two! In this case, the term’s etymology includes En. varenyky > Uk. вареники > Uk. варений ( > Uk. варити > PSl. *variti) + Uk. -ик ( > PSl. *-ikъ.), and probably similar trees for Russian, Yiddish, and Plautdietsch.

But in this case, CodeCat, you simply deleted material that was not duplicated, because it is not in any other entry that I can find.