User talk:Leif Runenritzer

Ƿidsiþ 08:26, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Lund
Please do not eliminate a foreign language entry to add an English one. Also, please only add a language category to a page with an entry in that language. --EncycloPetey 00:47, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, much better. The bot AutoFormat cleanup up some details, if you care to look, but the general entry was correct this time around. --EncycloPetey 01:04, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

assault rifle
The main resources for getting citations that are convenient for acceptance for "attestation" are Google's "Books" search and Google's "News" search. Also www.corpus.byu.edu. What is difficult is to get quotes that illustrate technical details without being mere "mentions". The approach of looking at the models mentioned in proximity to the term assault rifle and determining the most common characteristics might well work. I would pick the three most common (AK-47 is certainly one.) and air the result of your analysis at the RfV discussion. If it is accepted in principle, it might then be worth refining. I will be happy to help if it is worth your time.

One reason why technical glossaries will continue to exist is that their approach differs from that of a general dictionary, which has to be principally descriptive of actual usage. DCDuring TALK 10:31, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

languages in etymology sections
is how you do it if the word in question isn't derived from the listed language: with a hyphen. HTH. &#x200b;— msh210  ℠  20:28, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

cloak
I don't see any reason to call this "related" to clock. If there is a relationship, it would be apparent from the etymology, but that isn't the case. --EncycloPetey 01:59, 19 August 2010 (UTC)