User talk:Mercator~enwiktionary

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Please note that each declension table should always be included under an ====Inflection==== section header, never simply alone. This is standard formatting across all languages here (though verbs oftenr get a ====Conjugation==== header instead). --EncycloPetey 04:22, 20 December 2007 (UTC)


 * It's good to have another person around contributing to Latin. There was an experienced person here last year, but she's now busy with research into modern Romance languages in Europe, and doesn't have time to work here much anymore.  There isn't much good guidance for new Latin contributors written down (yet), but you can find a well-formatted adjective entry at albus:, verb entry at, and adverb entries at abunde: and difficiliter:.  I am currently focusing my efforts on Latin adverbs.


 * I have occasionally started writing a guide for new editors on formatting, but there have been so many changes and inprovements (especially inflection tables and templates), that it hasn't gotten very far. I am hoping to write a bit more over my Christmas vacation.  Until then, feel free to ask me if you have a question.  You can also look at some of the modifications I've made to pages your recently edited to se what the "current" format conventions are like. --EncycloPetey 04:35, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Comparatives
We're still deciding how to handle comparatives and superlatives. The test case is albior: for adjectives, and diutius: and celerrime: are test cases for adverbs. Right now, some of the templates don't work properly, so the categorization is wrong. Also, adverbs have been neglected until recently (in all languages here), when I pushed to get more recognition for them, so the adverb pages are still very much a work in progress. You won't see as many examples, and the comparative and superlative formats are still being worked out.

Feel free to make suggestions. A good place to coordinate the discussion is the talk page for Wiktionary:About Latin, which eventually should be a guide to formatting Latin entries on this Wiktionary. I have lots of notes, but have not had the time to put them into prose between all the things I've been doing here and outside of wiki. --EncycloPetey 04:47, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

maturus
Watch out! The noun and adjective inflection templates do not use a macron-free argument for the lemma form (though the verb templates do). But the inflection table template does need the macron-free argument. See --EncycloPetey 06:38, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorry. I'll look out for that in the future. Ouch! Mercator 06:39, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

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