Wiktionary talk:Todo/unhelpful abbreviations

More
A couple more would be:
 * 1) masc.
 * 2) fem.
 * 3) neut.
 * 4) priv.
 * 5) freq.
 * 6) gen.
 * ML.
 * 1) refl.

Mglovesfun (talk) 09:28, 14 July 2010 (UTC) (ongoing list)
 * Done. There were no "priv." usages. What was that supposed to mean? Also, let me know of exceptions. --Bequw → τ 14:55, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Privative - I think I must have removed the only use of it, then. Do your searches ignore the contents of templates? Masc. appears in some templates. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:03, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
 * There are quite a lot out there - see -graphy, what an awful etymology! Mglovesfun (talk) 15:05, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

The first example under "gen. = 'genitive'" is actually abbreviating Genesis. Other possibilities (don't necessarily occur, I haven't gone through the list) for gen. might be general and generic. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 16:28, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, that's precisely why we want to remove them (freq. could also be frequent, frequently) but it demonstrates why it would be short-sighted to use a bot to replace them all. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:34, 15 July 2010 (UTC)


 * 1) pl. - plural
 * 2) sg. - singular
 * 3) OF. - Old French
 * 4) LL. - Late Latin
 * 5) orig. - originally
 * 6) L. - Latin
 * 7) F. - French
 * 8) c. - circa
 * 9) esp. - especially
 * Mglovesfun (talk) 17:51, 16 July 2010 (UTC) (ongoing again)
 * Added to the page. Thanks for the work. --Bequw → τ 15:42, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

I've just found NTest. for "New Testament", OTest. for "Old Testament" may exist also therefore. Thryduulf (talk)
 * You got the only one (psalm). --Bequw → τ 15:03, 18 July 2010 (UTC)


 * OCS -> "Old Church Slavonic" should be expanded also. Thryduulf (talk) 10:01, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * O.H.G. -> "Old High German"
 * OHG -> "Old High German"
 * Germ. -> "German" Thryduulf (talk) 11:18, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Added. ("Germ." could also be "Germanic") --Bequw → τ 14:04, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * lit. (literally). Mglovesfun (talk) 14:30, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * pers. for person, used a lot in Finnish sections. Also 1st person ought to be first person, or should it? Mglovesfun (talk) 17:09, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Added (except "1st" which I'm not sure about). --Bequw → τ 01:57, 25 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Also, sg. --> singular —Internoob (Disc•Cont) 03:21, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

Etymologies in general
A lot of our etymologies are outdated and need script templates and. Some of the time I replace PIE with but it's much faster to do a straight swap PIE > Proto-Indo-European. But on a more general note, replacing Proto- with would be desirable, albeit relatively low priority. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:58, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

F.
All of these referred to people's names, such as in JFK > John F. Kennedy. I suspect therefore, many or all of the L.s will be valid, too. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:14, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Next time around I'll only search for these in Etymologies. Thanks. --Bequw → τ 12:20, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Many of them were in etymologies. I'm not suggesting anyone is at "fault". Mglovesfun (talk) 12:24, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
 * You've added L. and F. back, these seem to be the same ones that I already checked. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:29, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes (though restricted to etymologies). --Bequw → τ 01:29, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I think we just need a warning about false positives at the top of the page. Mglovesfun (talk) 08:56, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Country names
These are often abbreviated, especially in translation sections. Some possibilities: Mex., Can., Am., NZ., Aus. Nadando 21:54, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * My search-fu seems to be failing me; I couldn't find that those were used often (I tried "LatAm" too). Could you provide an example so I can search more effectively? Or maybe there are other country abbreviations that are more common (I doubt the English country ones would get used much in translation sections). --Bequw → τ 16:57, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

O.E.
I just corrected "O.E." in an entry, if you want to add it to the abbreviations your bot searches for in updating this page. - -sche (discuss) 20:01, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Uses of "cf." I found
Using a database download from 2021-09-01 I searched for ' Cf. ' and ' cf. ' in the text of all mainspace pages that have an English heading. I found 212 uses and added them to the appropriate table. - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 19:43, 24 December 2021 (UTC)