Thread:User talk:CodeCat/gv-noun/reply

As I understand you, you want the genitive to display only if it has been provided, and to omit it if it's not? I don't know if that's a good idea. It's useful to users if the genitive is listed even if it's the same, just as a kind of affirmation that it is the same, in case there might be any doubt. What I could do, though, is make it default to the page name if it has not been provided, so that it's assumed to be the same unless specified otherwise. I don't know if that is a good assumption for the majority of Manx nouns though; it would only make sense if most Manx nouns had no distinct genitive. But if most nouns did, and only a few did not, then such a default would make little sense.

If only a few rare nouns have a dative form at all, then it could be made to omit the dative unless it is explicitly given. I assume that the plural should always be displayed, unless the noun is uncountable?

The code in the template was rather messy, so I cleaned it up somewhat. It seems that a lot of the parameters do the same things, so they are redundant and should really be removed/consolidated into a single one. That will make the template simpler and easier to understand and modify. I propose using the first positional parameter for the gender, the second for the genitive, and the third for the plural. Is that ok? Then there would be,  ,   for any additional forms.