User talk:Desaccointier

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Alternative forms for Old French and Old English
Hi. When creating new entries for Old French and Old English that are alternative forms of another lemma, would you mind adding quotations for such entries? If quotations for the alternative form cannot be found, it might not be a good idea to create such entries because the red link listed in the main lemma may be incorrect. KevinUp (talk) 02:13, 13 December 2018 (UTC)

Translations Check
Hi, I am new to wikitionary. I saw a list where-in it had the list of words which needs to be checked for translation. I visited the page and under the {checktrans-top} tag, I saw an entry with t-check for a particular language. I am a native speaker of the language and confirm it is correct. Now should i just remove an entry from this tag or do I need to do anything else as well? --Cyarenkatnikh (talk) 14:18, 25 December 2018 (UTC)


 * M8 your most likely better posting questions about these things in the Information desk than asking someone who joined ten months later than you. W/ reguards to your quęstion, you should probably see WT:TRANS for coherently crafted instructions. Basically, you just move the verified translation to the main translation table with the {t} template insted of the {t-check} template. Nought else required (I think). Desaccointier(talk) 14:35, 25 December 2018 (UTC)

Regarding Quotations
Quotations serve two purposes: (1) They provide evidence that a word or sense exists (2) They provide examples of how it is used. Some of the quotations you have added shows that the term exists, but not how it is used. Also, ideally, quotations are to be sourced from different time ranges and a variety of sources, e.g. printed publications such as books and newspapers that can be accessed online, various sites that index periodicals, public domain works which have been digitalized and posted online by Google Books, or text from Wikisource. Citations that are clustered around the same time period, or do not demonstrate how the term is used, are best added to the Citations: page. Also, be sure to arrange the order of quotations according to date (from earliest to latest). KevinUp (talk) 18:05, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Suffix, prefix or affix templates in etymology section
When something like  is added to aloer, it categorizes the Old French lemma into Category:Latin words prefixed with ad- and Category:Latin words suffixed with -o (denominative), which is incorrect. In future, please use +  or  (less recommended). Also, would you mind correcting etymology 1 of aloer? (just to be sure that you have read and understood this message). KevinUp (talk) 13:31, 19 January 2019 (UTC)

etyl to inh
Desaccointier, though I appreciated your converting etyl to inh, please only use inh when the word is derived wholly from the previous form. I cases like root derivatives, you need to use der there. You can read more about that on the inh template page. Can you please go back and fix the changes you made? Thanks! -- 07:50, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

I can see you're also using bor wrongly. It is only to be used in the first part of an etymology, otherwise you're sorting many entries into appropriate categories, so it's very paramount that you fix those. -- 07:56, 23 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi. As mentioned before, should only be used in the first part of an etymology. In adil (incorrect edit), the second template after  should be  not . KevinUp (talk) 13:28, 6 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Desaccointier, please reply, otherwise we'll have to count you as unresponsive. -- 18:37, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Answered on user's talk page. Apologies for belatedness; I got a notification of something, so I can't really blame the mobile interface. Thank you for pointing all this out. —&#8288;Desaccointier 13:17, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Great. If you have any questions, please let us know. -- 17:57, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

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