Thread:User talk:Rua/*weghs/reply (3)

I stumbled across this thread, and reading through, I wondered too at your meaning. While ibid is indeed known well enough in various other works, the specifics of how Wiktionary function can make it risky to assume that ibid will always be correct in its particular context.

For instance, suppose the list of descendants were sorted alphabetically by language name. If your line for Old Church Slavonic were placed above your line for Sanskrit, the ibid ceases to make any sense. Alternatively, suppose some other language were inserted between the two, and the new line includes a different citation.

If you intended for your second citation to simply refer to the first, try using the  attribute on the   tag instead, and simply use the same value for both attributes. So long as there is one  tag on the page with the same name and full details, the other instances of that identically-named   tag can be empty.

What you had:


 * Sanskrit avākṣam
 * Old Church Slavonic vĕsŭ

A suggested change:


 * Sanskrit avākṣam
 * Old Church Slavonic vĕsŭ

This way, both citations safely refer to the same source, no matter where the individual  tags appear on the page. HTH!