User talk:Weisenstar

Hello Weisenstar (talk) 13:52, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Welcome
Welcome to Wiktionary. First of all, this is not Wikipedia, and our templates and policies will be different. Most importantly, entries need to follow the WT:CFI and WT:ELE. Please read these before creating any more entries, because the ones you have created have serious formatting problems and may not even be admissible per WT:ATTEST. I've put the standard welcome message below. Thanks.

Welcome!

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Again, welcome! —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 08:37, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Some more points
Please remember that this is a a dictionary: its purpose is provide information about words, not to show off your dog pictures. Also, it's a wiki, which means your contribution is no more important than anyone else's- don't remove other people's content without a good reason. Finally, don't add templates that link to Wikipedia or Commons pages that don't exist. If the name of the page is different on the other wiki, add the correct spelling for the other wiki as a parameter.

We have fewer editors here, so we can't keep on fixing all of your edits. If it becomes obvious that the time spent cleaning up after you isn't worth the value of your contributions, you could be blocked. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:15, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I forgot one other point: we almost never use redirects here at Wiktionary- see Chuck Entz (talk) 14:17, 12 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Hey you're still using redirects for plurals. Please stop. Equinox ◑ 23:53, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Babel
Would you add to your user page? I'd appreciate it. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:40, 21 August 2015 (UTC)