Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Help with Inflection Tables

Hello CodeCat,

I don't know how to send you a personal message or contact you in any other way, so I'll post here. Since you provided me with assistance and guidance when I first created my account and began uploading terms, I thought I could ask you for advice now as well. The problems is that I now want to start adding conjugation tables to my entries (now that I've entered the most significant verbs), but don't really know how to use templates. I don't understand the first thing about them (how to make them, how to link them, how to edit them, etc.), so I hope I can avoid them. I have created one conjugation table without using a template, for the entry "плаќа", and I was hoping you could look at it and tell if I am allowed to create tables without templates this way. I basically took the basis of the Turkish template and adjusted it to the Macedonian verbal system. I chose the Turkish one because I like the design, whereas the Macedonian one looks quite gaudy to me.

Never mind that, I don't like the way the Macedonian one is structured. It includes too many forms which can be logically predicted and is also very bulky. Finally, it has some illogical things, like perfective and imperfective forms of the same verbs, whereas in Macedonian, aspect is an inherent category of each verb, such that I don't see how the same verb could have conjugated forms in each aspect. There are also some things written in it that I don't consider true, such as the pluperfect tense being somewhat obsolete. I know many people who use it and I use it actively myself. All in all, I like the table I made for "плаќа" much better. In conclusion, is it permissible? Am I allowed to start using it for all of my entries, or do I have to conform to the existing template, although I dislike it?

I would be in effect using the table I made as a template, but in my own way. I have the code for it in a WinWord document, and I would like to copy paste it from there to the page of each entry. Before that, I would use the "Find and Replace" option in WinWord to change the verb included to the one I need to upload a conjugation table for.

Thank you in advance, and I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post