User talk:Daviddwd

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Again, welcome! — justin(r)leung { (t...) 07:33, 13 February 2019 (UTC)

Xingshengzi
Glad to see someone interested in xingshengzi! If you want to do work classifing characters as xingshengzi / huiyizi / etc., you can help us with the Glyph origin sections on the individual character pages- check out Template:Han etym and Template:Han compound. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 23:22, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Awesome, I'll look into it! I was thinking of proposing a navbox or something along those lines for Chinese character composition, although they're less common on Wiktionary than Wikipedia. --Daviddwd (talk) 23:25, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I put a bunch of specific terms on 偏旁/piānpáng. If I wanted to propose such a navbox or template (perhaps similar to some of the Spanish verb conjugations ones?), where would I propose it? --Daviddwd (talk) 23:48, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

Order of headings and visual edit
Hi Daviddwd, I think you'd like to take a look at WT:EL, especially the section on the order of headings. Visual edit is great and all, but it seems to generate some messy code that doesn't seem to fit WT:NORM. — justin(r)leung { (t...) 00:21, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Alright, thank you! I wasn't aware of this. I can submit feature requests to WM/MW later to ask the visual editor to help comply better. Certainly I'll be more mindful of this in the future. Thanks! --Daviddwd (talk) 00:35, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Happy editing! — justin(r)leung { (t...) 07:37, 24 February 2019 (UTC)