User talk:Theo.phonchana

mijo
is for definitions, not etymologies. Strangely there isn't a contraction template in Category:Morphology templates. and are the closest templates, but I am not sure if either of them is correct. — Eru·tuon 06:08, 12 October 2019 (UTC)

Not everything that begins with "as" is a simile
Equinox ◑ 11:51, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * What? Theo.phonchana (talk)
 * Do you even know what a simile is? A simile is saying that something is like something else, not that it's different. Wiktionary is a reference work. If you don't know something with absolute certainty, you have no business adding it. You may think you're impressing people by editing in a whole bunch of languages and using obscure terminology, but you're really making yourself look like a complete idiot. Please stop! Chuck Entz (talk) 08:17, 5 December 2019 (UTC)


 * Why not? Theo.phonchana (talk) 09:36, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

Nahuatl
The main problem with your edit at mezcal is that you're using the language code "nah". This language code is a colossal mess, referring to what Wiktionary considers to be dozens of Nahuan languages, each with their own language code. If you look at Category:Nahuatl language, you'll notice that we have no entries in the language at all. What you're thinking of as Nahuatl we have as Classical Nahuatl, though there may be other Nahuan languages involved.

Also, you're basically undoing what was added by User:Lvovmauro, who knows more about Nahuatl and the Nahuan languages than both of us put together. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:45, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Mezcal is from Nahuatl. Theo.phonchana (talk)
 * That's not an answer. Chuck Entz (talk)

fia
Is an alternative form of fiá, but they're interchangeable. I've added the alternative forms header to both, but neither should be a redirect. When someone rolls back your edits, you see the message "If you think this rollback is in error, please leave a message on my talk page" in the edit summary. You keep getting blocked because you ignore this message and start edit wars which make it hard to assume good faith on your part. Ultimateria (talk) 16:13, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Yokuts
There are several Yokutsan languages, and I'm not sure which one is the source of the word Monachi. While there is a language code for Yokuts, we don't use it, so your edit left the entry with a module error. Don't ever do that.

You also need to be very careful about etymologies for place names with American Indian languages: most people in the US know absolutely nothing about the languages, and there was a common practice a couple of centuries ago for local officials to make up nice-sounding stories about the origins of place names for promotional purposes. When I took an American Indian languages course at UCLA a few decades ago, our first assignment was to look up the etymology of a well known US place name said to be from an American Indian language in printed reference works such as encyclopedias. Most of them were wrong. Chuck Entz (talk) 13:46, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

There's no rule against having multiple accounts, as long as they aren't used deceptively or to bypass blocks or other restrictions. If this account and User:Theo.phonchana belong to the same person, that should be indicated on both user pages to avoid misunderstanding. I should also point out that, as a checkuser, I have the capability of finding this out if I have reason to believe that the rules are being significantly violated. Chuck Entz (talk) 20:51, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

I want you to tell me what a phono-semantic compound is.
—Suzukaze-c◇◇ 02:24, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
 * waiting for your answer babe <3 —Suzukaze-c◇◇ 00:00, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
 * <3 —Suzukaze-c◇◇ 03:50, 29 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I ain't ur bf! Theo.phonchana (talk) 09:38, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
 * <3 —Suzukaze-c (talk) 04:27, 26 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Shut the hell up! Theo.phonchana (talk) 03:33, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Mongolian pronunciation - manual versus automated
I see that you have been blocked for edit-warring but just so you know, why I have reverted your Mongolian pronunciation edits.

The automated pronunciation by is far from perfect and may often produce wrong results (not necessarily in these entries). The module Module:mn-IPA displays the message This module page is still in development. Pronunciations added manually by User:LibCae or User:Crom daba should be trusted and supersede any automated pronunciations. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 03:15, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
 * What? How is it still in development? Theo.phonchana (talk) 03:39, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Zhuang terms are not borrowed from Middle Chinese
Hi. Zhuang terms are not borrowed directly from Middle Chinese, but are borrowed from a more recent stage of Chinese. This Chinese language may be an ancestor to Pinghua and/or Cantonese, but we are not sure what. That's why it's just "Chinese", just to be more ambiguous and for a lack of a better term. We give the Middle Chinese pronunciation just as a reference/placeholder. Please stop making edits that change to. — justin(r)leung { (t...) 17:43, 1 May 2020 (UTC) Theo.phonchana (talk) 10:05, 24 May 2020 (UTC) Theo.phonchana (talk) 01:33, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Hi, please respond. I didn't see disruptive edits but I didn't check very thoroughly. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 03:20, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Also . Again, I'm not involved. Just not sure what happened here. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 03:23, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Exhibit A. Ignore the header- this has nothing to do with Zhuang. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:45, 23 June 2020 (UTC)


 * This user has got a bit of a history of bad edits. I don't know what else to tell you. Check the history. Equinox ◑ 07:47, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
 * OK, no problem. The exhibit above may suffice. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 07:50, 24 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Late addendum -- I noticed this thread and had a look at Exhibit A. Theo's contention that this French term  is only used in the third person is trivially easy to check:  is the first- and second-person conditional conjugation, and sure enough, there are what appear to be cromulent hits.
 * Theo has been making similar edits recently to Japanese entries, adding labels and content alleging that certain terms are only spelled in "kana only", or alleging that certain names are from Old Japanese, such as here at 勿体無い (trivially refutable: ), or here at 一人 (harder to refute given the oddities of name usage in Japanese, but I have never seen a source claiming this name to be that old). He even edited Module:labels/data to support the category he created, Category:Japanese terms only used in kana (empty, and which I've since deleted).
 * I'm on the fence, and would appreciate your input,, anyone else --
 * Given the disruption, should we block Theo again?
 * Or, is there any way to limit his (?) access to infrastructure pages, to limit the potential for damage? Perhaps by only allowing edits in User and mainspace?
 * Curious what you all think. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 21:57, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Regarding, the third-person part was actually correct: the subject is almost always inanimate, so you wouldn't use it in the first or second person (except for jocular or poetic effect; here's an example, and here's another). However, the subject is not a dummy pronoun, so the verb is absolutely not impersonal, unlike typical impersonal verbs such as rain or snow (unless simply means "not referring to a person"? But I think the grammar term entails more than that).
 * Imo, this user has brought very little value to the project so far, and has been a nuisance more than anything else. PUC – 22:14, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you, PUC. Re: impersonal, I note that our [[Appendix:Glossary]] entry describes something different than just "not referring to a person", as you suspected.  From the glossary description, I don't think an impersonal label is correct for the French entry, but you'd be a better judge of that than I.  :)  Cheers, ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 03:40, 30 July 2020 (UTC)


 * But it's only used in the third person. Theo.phonchana (talk) 03:06, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Your recent edits in Japanese entries (late July 2020)
Hello Theo, your edits in Japanese entries have been almost uniformly problematic. It is clear that you are not sufficiently familiar with the language to be editing here constructively.

Please cease and desist from all editing of Japanese entries.

A cursory review of your edits to entries in other languages also reveals numerous problems. Please be more attentive in your editing activities in general.

Thank you. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 21:44, 29 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Hello Theo! You've been blocked almost every two months since October 2019. Next time I see someone on your talk page saying "can you stop causing large-scale damage" that's probably the end. Thank you for listening. Equinox ◑ 02:56, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Another block
Theo has reverted multiple of our edits just today, without regard for the above discussions. As noted by multiple users in this thread, his conduct has exhibited a trend of disruptive edits that are disrespectful of Wiktionary norms and other editors. I've blocked Theo for another three months. If any of the rest of you admins feel otherwise, please adjust as you see fit. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 06:00, 30 July 2020 (UTC)
 * How the hell did I do disruptive edits? Theo.phonchana (talk) 13:05, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
 * At [[だけ]]:
 * At [[ゆめ]]:
 * At [[夢]]:
 * At [[おめでとう]]:
 * At [[愛でたい]]:
 * At [[めでたい]]:
 * At [[いい]]:
 * At [[よい]]:
 * At [[良い]]:
 * At [[まっすぐ]]:
 * At [[可笑しな]]:
 * At [[おかしな]]:
 * Basically, every single one of your Japanese-entry edits on July 29 was problematic -- i.e. disruptive -- and made it necessary for other editors to clean up your mess. Your pattern has been to edit lots of pages in a short amount of time.  On July 29, you changed 13 pages within 35 minutes, all of which had to be reverted.  Your understanding of Japanese lexicography is not high enough, and your willingness to work with the community is not great enough, for you to contribute positively here to Japanese entries.
 * Looking at the other threads here on your Talk page, it becomes apparent that this is part of a broader pattern of editing entries for languages you do not understand sufficiently well. Just based on these threads, you have been disruptive to editors of the following languages:
 * Spanish
 * Nahuatl
 * Yokuts
 * Mongolian
 * Zhuang
 * French
 * Japanese
 * Rather that you insist on editing entries in languages you do not appear to know very well, we (the community of editors and admins) have in turn insisted that you stop.
 * Hence, the block. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 23:10, 26 August 2020 (UTC)