User talk:Wise Bridges Fool Walls

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Again, welcome! Karaeng Matoaya (talk) 05:35, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Usage examples
Much thanks for your Korean grammar-related edits. Just a note, copying usage examples from other websites (even when the link to www.howtostudykorean.com is provided as a reference) could potentially run afoul of copyright. It's better if you can find a quotation from a news source (e.g. something off Naver News) or a book on Google Books. (These can be quoted with quote-web.)

In addition, while the guidelines at WT:Criteria for Inclusion are not super clear on how it applies to Korean, and  are probably sums of parts, so I think they should be redirected to. I've set up a discussion at WT:Requests for deletion/Non-English, where you can comment on what you think.

I hope this doesn't discourage you or anything, and I hope to see you keep contributing!--Karaeng Matoaya (talk) 05:50, 30 January 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for your reply. I am pretty new at this stuff. Wise Bridges Fool Walls (talk) 16:19, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Problematic edits to Japanese entries
Hello, I just reverted your at the  entry. I've noticed that you are adding voluminous amounts of content to Japanese entries, and that some of your grammar notes are incorrect. For instance, ぬ is not necessarily archaic, and is still in common use in certain contexts; ぬ and ず are different conjugations of the same thing, so naturally they cannot be used interchangeably in the same grammatical constructions; ぬ is bound to the 未然形, while ない is also the plain negative of the copula and can thus follow the 連用形 of adjectives; etc. etc. I am also concerned that your additions appear to be verbatim copies from the sources you reference, raising the possibility of potential copyright issues. Ultimately, I made the judgment call to back out your edit rather than try to perform surgery on the content you'd added.

I have also deleted the page you created, for much the same reasons, and for the second time. Please do not re-create that page as it was.

Please do not copy from reference works.

Please use more than one reference to ensure that what you are adding is accurate.

Also, please bear in mind that Wiktionary is a dictionary -- not a grammar reference or language textbook.

Kind regards,

‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 05:43, 16 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for telling me this. I will keep that in mind next time. Wise Bridges Fool Walls (talk) 16:17, 20 December 2022 (UTC)