Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion/Language-specific

These are language-specific criteria for inclusion (or exclusion) of terms.

Dutch

 * 1) Entries for nonidiomatic possessive cases should not be created.
 * 2) * Example: moeders and leraars should not be created (although the former is also a plural form, which is ok).

English

 * 1) Entries for nonidiomatic possessive cases should not be created.
 * 2) * Example: mother's and teachers' should not be created.
 * 3) If a citation is written with long s (ſ), it counts, for attestation purposes, as the common short s (s). No English entry should include the long s in its title.
 * 4) * Example: A citation that includes "phantaſtick" counts to attest phantastick. The English entry phantaſtick should not be created.
 * 5) Any English word will sometimes be written with an uppercase first letter, or with all uppercase letters. Such capitalizations should not be included unless they are a property of a specific word.
 * 6) * Example: Entries are not needed for The and THE, only for the.

Hebrew

 * 1) The standard on English Wiktionary is to treat all of Hebrew as one language, including Biblical, Mishnaic, and Modern Hebrew. All have the same categories, all have the same ==Language== headers, etc. The only exception is in Etymology sections, where to indicate derivation from Biblical Hebrew one can use, and to indicate derivation from Modern Israeli Hebrew one can use.
 * 2) Exclude most constructions that are simply one or more proclitics plus a base word.
 * 3) *Example: is considered to be covered by the entries for  and.

Irish

 * 1) Words formed with a prefix always written with a hyphen (e.g., ) should not be created unless they are idiomatic.
 * 2) The genitive case of a noun used attributively should not be listed as an adjective; for example,  is just an inflected form of the noun ; it should not be listed as an adjective meaning ‘wooden’.

Japanese

 * 1) If a term is included with a spelling that includes kanji, then its all-hiragana spelling should be included as well. If a term is included with a kanji, hiragana, or katakana spelling, then its Hepburn romanization should be included as well.
 * 2) * Example: 言葉 is included, therefore ことば and kotoba should be included as well.

Latin

 * 1) Entry titles should not include macrons (ā, ē, etc.) or breves (ă, ĕ, etc.).
 * 2) * Example: The word "ēsse" should be found at the entry esse; the Latin entry ēsse should not be created.

Old English

 * 1) Entries named with macrons (ā, ē, etc.) or dots (ċ, ġ) should not be created. The title should be written as the version without diacritics instead.
 * 2) * Example: The word "ċēosan" should be found at the entry ceosan; the entry ċēosan should not be created.
 * 3) If a form with the letter ð is attested, then its form with the letter þ in its place should also be created. Likewise for ƿ and w.
 * 4) * Example: ðæt is attested, therefore þæt should also be created. hƿæt is attested, therefore hwæt should be created too.

Old High German

 * 1) Entries named with macrons (ā, ē, etc.) should not be created. The title should be written as the version without diacritics instead.
 * 2) * Example: The word "mīn" should be found at the entry min; the entry mīn should not be created.
 * 3) If a form with the digraph th is attested, the form with the letter d in its place should also be created.
 * 4) * Example: The form ther is attested, therefore der should also be created.
 * 5) If a form with the letter c, the curled z or the digraph uu is attested, the form with k, z or w in their place should also be created.
 * 6) * Example: The word scal is attested, therefore skal should also be created.
 * 7) * Example: The word uuaz is attested, therefore waz should also be created.

Old Norse

 * 1) Entries named with macrons (ā, ē, etc.) should not be created. Vowels with macrons should be replaced by vowels with acute accents (á, é etc.).
 * 2) * Example: The entry mīnn should not be created, its entry should be named mínn.
 * 3) If a form with the letter i followed by a vowel is attested, the form with j in its place should also be created as the main entry.
 * 4) * Example: The word siá is attested, therefore sjá should also be created.
 * 5) If a form with the letter c is attested, the form with k in its place should also be created as the main entry.
 * 6) * Example: The word scal is attested, therefore skal should also be created.

Old Saxon

 * 1) Entries named with macrons (ā, ē, etc.) should not be created. The title should be written as the version without diacritics instead.
 * 2) * Example: The word "mīn" should be found at the entry min; the entry mīn should not be created.
 * 3) If a form with the letters ƀ, c or the digraph uu is attested, the form with the letters v, k or w in their place should also be created.
 * 4) * Example: The word klioƀan is attested, therefore kliovan should also be created.
 * 5) * Example: The word scal is attested, therefore skal should also be created.
 * 6) * Example: The word uuat is attested, therefore wat should also be created.