User talk:Samwilson

Welcome
Conrad.Irwin 23:19, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Userboxes
Please note that the Wiktionary community voted to ban userboxes. There are a numebr of good reasons for this, but I didn't begin to appreciate them until I'd been here for some time. (see WT:USER and Votes/pl-2007-08/Babel_userboxes) Yours Conrad.Irwin 23:19, 29 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Ah, yes, right. Sorry!  Should've read the rules first&hellip; Thanks for bringing this to my attention. — Sam Wilson (Australia) 00:06, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

awful
Your edits to this page have been reverted. You seem to have intended them for the entry on awfully:, rather than for awful:. The quote you added did not include the word awful. --EncycloPetey 01:19, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I've moved that quotation to 'awfully', but restored the second sense of 'awful' in the last definition: that it can be a positive expression should, I think, be mentioned. Thank you for pointing out my mistake.  &mdash; Sam Wilson ( Talk &bull; Contribs ) &hellip; 01:29, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't see how the two intensifying senses are different. In any case, we do not format entries with secondary indenting of numbered senses, as you have done. --EncycloPetey 01:34, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Right, good point. I've amalgamated the two and removed the secondary indenting (I was aiming at a layout that would designate the two definitions as related).  &mdash; Sam Wilson ( Talk &bull; Contribs ) &hellip; 01:43, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

borné
Please note: Your contribution has been move to the appropriate namespace Citations:borné. The Citations: namespace exists precisely for the accumulation of supporting citations for words that do not yet have entries, or to supplement existing entries with evidence of use. --EncycloPetey 03:07, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much! (I appreciate your forebearance of a Wiktionary novice.)  &mdash; Sam Wilson ( Talk &bull; Contribs ) &hellip; 13:22, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Formatting &c.
Hello! I'm glad to see somebody working on an aboriginal Australian language, as we dearly need it and I haven't gotten around to learning any. I just wanted to notify you of a couple changes I made regarding formatting, so you can learn from those. If you have any further questions, feel free to ask. Thanks! —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 04:37, 7 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Ah thank you indeed! Yes, I still feel like quite a newbie here :) so it's very nice to have some proper stuff pointed out to me. I'll go back over what I've done so far and fix anything up. We've got a few noongar sources at Wikisource, and I'm going to (slowly) work through them. &mdash; Sam Wilson ( Talk &bull; Contribs ) &hellip; 04:43, 7 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Excellent. I presume the orthography is rather outdated, though; perhaps dictionaries like this one may be of help. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 05:29, 7 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes, you're right. The spellings can be updated with the modern ones (and I'll leave the old ones in as alternative forms)... it's just easier to start with public domain stuff. There's a dictionary by Douglas too, which has part-of-speech and other greater detail; I've not yet got a copy. Thanks for the link to Whitehurst -- I was going to go to the library for that; hadn't realised it was online. :) Is it okay to create RQ:* templates for these? Oh, and I'm also adding things to the Noongar incubator site (wt/nys). &mdash; Sam Wilson ( Talk &bull; Contribs ) &hellip; 07:04, 7 October 2015 (UTC)


 * That's fine, it's just better to have the modern spellings as the lemma in the first place. Making RQ templates for those should be fine, although you may not want to link to a site that may take the content down for any reason. I can't find Douglas online, I'm afraid; maybe I'll try JSTOR later when my proxy is working (if that works, I can email the pdf to you, assuming you don't have JSTOR access yourself). And thanks for the work on the incubator as well! —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 23:33, 7 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Please note my changes at carcup (and ask if they don't make sense). I still don't fully understand the meaning of the term, though... —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 06:43, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah, yes, thank you! :) Of course — anything that can be replaced by its definition isn't non-gloss is it? I was confused earlier. :-) I'm meeting with some people who speak noongar this arvo, so shall ask about this entry too. Thanks for keeping an eye on me! hehe &mdash; Sam Wilson ( Talk &bull; Contribs ) &hellip; 07:52, 17 November 2015 (UTC)