User talk:Hercule

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Hello, and welcome to Wiktionary. I hope you enjoy contributing here.

If you have edited Wikipedia, you probably already know some basics, but Wiktionary operates in a very different manner from Wikipedia and you will have a better experience if you do not assume the two are similar in culture. Please remember that despite your experience on Wikipedia, you are inexperienced here. While you do not need to be an expert, or anything close to one, to contribute, please be as respectful of local policies and community practices as you can: being bold is not encouraged where it goes against any of those practices. Be aware that well-meaning Wikipedians have unfortunately found themselves blocked in the past for their actions taken without forethought. (You can get more of a glimpse of the Wiktionary mindset at Help:Interacting with humans.)

Our two main policy documents are Entry layout explained ("ELE") and Criteria for inclusion ("CFI"). ELE describes our standard layout; unlike on Wikipedia, all entries must follow this layout, even if they are not yet complete. (You can get a feel for our standard layout by looking at existing entries.) CFI describes what is allowed in the dictionary, and disallows (for example) most names of specific persons. We generally follow ELE and CFI closely.

If you do create a couple of entries that are not properly formatted, someone will be glad to clean up after you. But if you do it repeatedly, you might get blocked as a temporary measure to give you a chance to read ELE.

Some other differences between us and English Wikipedia:
 * Entry titles are case-sensitive and do not have their first letters capitalized unless, like proper nouns, they are ordinarily capitalized. So we have mercury for the substance and Mercury for the planet and the god. (We do not use parentheses in titles: there's no Mercury (planet).)
 * We just want definitions of words, not long-winded explanations worthy of Wikipedia.
 * Wiktionary has very different user-space policies from Wikipedia's. We are here to build a dictionary, and userpages exist only to facilitate that. In particular, we have voted to explicitly ban all userboxes with the exception of ; please do not create or use them.
 * Other policies, including on, blocks, redirects, and interwiki links, are very different from English Wikipedia's. And we have no counterpart to Wikipedia's three-revert rule.
 * Various templates and shortcuts that you're used to using do not exist here, or have different names. For example, don't try to use  to refer to a template! ( will do the trick.)
 * Don't add an edit summary when creating a new entry here: the software will fill a useful one in automatically. (Edit summaries are good for other edits, though.)

Also, a "citation" on Wiktionary is the same as a "quotation" and is evidence of a word being used; we use these to construct dictionary definitions. See WT:QUOTE. A "reference", on the other hand, which is called a "citation" on Wikipedia, references another secondary source, such as a dictionary, and is used predominantly for verifying etymologies and usage notes, not the definitions themselves. (That we don't use another dictionary as our source for the existence of a word is largely so that we don't fall into the trap of adding "list words", words that, while often defined, are never used in practice.)

I hope you enjoy editing Wiktionary! If you have any questions, then see the help pages, add a question to one of the discussion rooms or ask me on my talk page.

I've blocked user:HerculeBot because it was an an unapproved bot making edits that violate our norms, specifically "fixing" interwikis and headers that were fine before the edits, and not fine after. By all means continue making (good) edits from this account. &#x200b;— msh210 ℠ 18:17, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello,
 * I was just making test edits, to see if I could help on wiktionary sites. But I have seen it's quite difficult because of the case sensitive names.
 * I didn't requested bot status yet because it was just a test (on few pages). I updated manually the interwikis because the target don't seem correct to me. If I did wrong please tell me what I don't understand :p
 * Could you please unblock my bot ? I don't think I'll run on wiktionary projets. If finally I decide to run I'll apply for bot status.
 * Regards
 * --Hercule 16:26, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * The target page's name must match the local page's name. This is just how we do it. If the target Wiktionary wants to treat that page as a redirect, then the user who follows the interwiki link will wind up at a different page, but there's nothing wrong with that. You should really read up on the local policies here, linked to above, before you re-modify a page you had already modified when you see that your first edit was reverted. &#x200b;— msh210 ℠ 16:33, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I would unblock the bot if it won't edit — but then there's no reason to unblock it. Unless you can provide one? (As I said, you're most welcome to make (good) edits yourself.) &#x200b;— msh210 ℠ 16:35, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * My bot won't edit here. I think I start to understand how you work, but I won't use it on wiktionary for now.
 * I would like the bot to be unlocked because I hate block logs on my global status check ;)
 * I don't understand why you blocked if because it was unapproved, while your process indicates "do a test run (under the bot account) on some 10-100 entries until you're certain everything goes well." I did test edits that were not revelant, that's all. If one day I decide to apply here, should I apply before making any edit ?
 * Regards
 * --Hercule 16:46, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't have blocked it had it been making reasonable edits. There's nothing wrong with a bot account's being blocked (you can always edit from your main account), so no harm done in blocking it, and the block prevents it from making further (bad) edits. (That is, of course, the point of the block: to prevent editing. Not to attach stigma or anything.) Since you don't like the block, though, and won't be using the bot, I'll be glad to unblock it. &#x200b;— msh210 ℠ 16:51, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Grrr, another term I misunderstand : reasonable is different from raisonnable !
 * Thanks --Hercule 16:57, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

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Please see WT:Links. Thanks! &#x200b;— msh210 ℠ 16:23, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * What I understand is that redirects should be removed. No? --Hercule 16:28, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * For Hand see la page with name Hand and ru page with name Hand
 * For onna see pt page with name onna
 * --Hercule 16:32, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * No. Why should they? &#x200b;— msh210 ℠ 16:33, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
 * That what I understand when I read "The name of the link and the name of the page on which the link appears should always be identical.". Ok, my english must be too poor. Sorry.
 * Could you unblock my bot please ?
 * Regards
 * --Hercule 16:36, 20 January 2010 (UTC)