User talk:Cuchullain

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—Ruakh TALK 16:10, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

P.S. I'm sorry, but I undid some of your changes to anchor baby, because we need quotations that use a term — see Criteria for inclusion — rather than quotations that discuss a term. (In this respect, we differ from Wikipedia; Wikipedia is a tertiary source, reliant on reliable secondary sources, whereas Wiktionary is a secondary source, basing content on our analysis of primary sources.) If you want to list references, you can certainly do so, but firstly, that belongs in a ===References=== section, and secondly, you must not copy entire definitions from copyrighted dictionaries (just as a Wikipedia article can't include an entire article from a copyrighted encyclopedia). —Ruakh TALK 16:10, 6 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Ah, okay. Thank you for your help. I'll read up on the criteria for inclusion and see about adding some usable references.--Cuchullain (talk) 17:21, 6 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I have found the requisite three citations for it from Google Books, going back to 2009. Equinox ◑ 17:32, 6 March 2012 (UTC)