User talk:Catalographer~enwiktionary

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Again, welcome! --EncycloPetey 15:06, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Ancient Greek entries
I recommend reading over About Ancient Greek. This page should provide lots of information and tips on page format for Ancient Greek entries. --EncycloPetey 15:06, 3 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Please include a definition / translation in every entry. I urge you again to look at WT:AGRC for guidance.  You are creating problems for others to clean up. --EncycloPetey 19:39, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

To assist you in learning the ropes (you've already come a long way), please look at this change I made. Please notice two things: The use of in the Etymology section (and no leading bullet), and the formatting of the Related terms section as a bulleted list (with no glosses). The may seem a bit complicated at first, but it ensures that the word, its transliteration, its gloss, and its display are all consistently formatted, which helps users to visually parse an etymology. --EncycloPetey 15:18, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

πύργος
- Pre-Greek substratum words, as well as Ancient Macedonian borrowings predate Homer. The theory on relation to this most interesting Germanic word (which also ended up borrowed in Slavic, Iranian and Semitic!) is relatively often mentioned and it would be of value to add it too.--Ivan Štambuk

Macedonian is not classified as a Pre-Greek but PIE language. Homer knows Paeonian and Thracians in the region. Anyway I changed the wording according to Beekes (a modern researcher) dictionary, which suggests a Pre-Greek substrate.Catalographer 16:35, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

..and a German borrowing to Semitic? !
 * Further discussion in Talk:πύργος Catalographer 08:25, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Catalographer. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Catalographer~enwiktionary that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:42, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:58, 21 April 2015 (UTC)