User talk:Davski

Please note that Wiktionary entries should start with a lowercase letter unless the word itself starts with a capital letter (like Macedonia). Thanks!

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расправа
Is it a verb or a noun? — Ungoliant (falai) 15:42, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

My bad I fixed it, thank you very much for pointing that out! Davski (talk) 14:19, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
 * You fixed the header, but it still has . Chuck Entz (talk) 17:27, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

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Putting Cyrillic entries on non-Cyrillic pages, as you did in this, is completely wrong. English Wiktionary is organized by spellings, and something in a different script can't be spelled the same. The Serbo-Croatian entry is there because the language uses both scripts, so when the Latin script is used, it's spelled that way. There's also an exactly-equivalent Cyrillic spelling of the Serbo-Croatian, but it's at опис.

Even if there were a Macedonian entry on that page, it would have need to go between Latin and Polish, since the order of language sections is always Translingual (if any), English (if any), all other languages, in alphabetical order by their English names.

I'm sorry if it seems like I'm nagging- most of your contributions are good, as far as I can tell. I just want to avoid wasting your time and that of others by having you add things that have to be removed or cleaned up. Thanks! Chuck Entz (talk) 17:08, 28 February 2015 (UTC)


 * After looking through your edits: don't forget to put " " between language sections. Sorry to be the one to point out, after you've taken care of a thousand details, that you overlooked detail one thousand and one... It get's easier. Chuck Entz (talk) 17:34, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you so much for pointing out my errors I really appreciate it! I am sorry for the hassle I created, I am trying to get my head around all the terminology and procedures on this website ! Davski (talk) 03:37, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Your Entries
Hello Davski,

I've read the messages you've left me on my talk page and I've finally gotten round to giving you a reply - I'm not really contributing to Wiktionary anymore because I'm quite busy with university; however, I haven't abandoned the project completely - I revisit it every once and a while, to post a few (or not so few) entries. I don't need any help personally, but Wiktionary sure could use help - there are only 6700 Macedonian entries so far, more or less, so there are many words which need to be added. If you want to undertake the task of adding them, I must suggest that you be more careful than you have been so far - about half of your Macedonian entries had errors in them. For instance, "камбана" was labelled as masculine, "народ" was labelled as feminine, "дреме" was labelled as a perfective verb and conjugated with a past participle form in "-т", "предци" was labelled as plural only, although the singular "предок" does indeed exist, differing only in grammatical number from the former, rather than in meaning, etc. I have now fixed these mistakes - please see to it that there are not too many like them in the future (I will do the same as far as my own entries are concerned).