User talk:Don Alessandro

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basseyn

Information like synonyms should go under "See also" or "Synonyms", not on the inflection line. Thanks. Atelaes 08:16, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your advice. But how and where can I mention that given synonym is used wider than the word itself? Alessandro 14:48, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

I suppose you could just make a parenthetical note next to the synonym. Atelaes 18:11, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

oşeklemeq

This is still listed in oşeklemek as an alternative spelling. Is that not correct? -- Visviva 17:09, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

No, it is not correct. It is definatley wrong spelling. I've removed its entry from oşeklemek. Alessandro 17:12, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. By the way, is this you editing your /Şive sözleri page? I just want to check, as we have had some problems with anons editing user subpages lately. Cheers, -- Visviva 09:04, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

It was a friend of mine, I've asked him to help me, so everything is OK. Alessandro 11:19, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello, they are true spelling in Northern dialect. But it is ok for me, if they are defined Northern Dialect. Thanks your contributions.--Mzekiu 20:49, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Redirects

Hi Alessandro! I've noticed that you moved a lot of articles, leaving a lot of redirects in the background. Were all of those actually misspellings that can be safely deleted? Wiktionary does not like redirects - they're left only for extreme purposes. You can mark anything you'd like to have speedydeleted with template {{delete}}. Cheers --Ivan Štambuk 19:40, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi! Yes, all of those are actually misspellings. Unfortunately, user who added these words speaks Crimean Tatar fluently, but is not in common with spelling rules at all, so I'm now busy with correcting all this. Here you can see full list of articles which are to be corrected. Redirects can be safely deleted. I'll mark all of them with {{delete}} in half an hour or so. At first I rename the group of words, then chek links and iwkis, and than nominate redirects for deletion. Alessandro 19:49, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Entries with non-standard headers

Hi!

Could you please help me a little bit... One of the users added a plenty of words in the Northern dialect of the Crimean Tatar language. I want to give a correspondence in the standard written Crimean Tatar for each of these words, as I have already done here. But a bot marked the page as an "Entry with non-standard header". So I have a question: how and where should I place literary correspondence for dialectal words? Alessandro 09:33, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

How about this format? --EncycloPetey 09:43, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I think what EncycloPetey has done is an excellent route. You must remember that we have a few set standards and, in general, we should not deviate from this. The trick is to find a way to incorporate the information you want to present within these standards, and I think EP has done so nicely. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 09:50, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. Language headers like ==Crimean Tatar (Northern dialect)== is unacceptable? Information about the dialect should be placed within the section, not in header? Alessandro 09:55, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes, dialects are not acceptable within headers, but rather are usually placed either in the inflection line or in a context tag. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 10:22, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

AF tagging level problems

Hi! You may have noted entries you've been correcting getting tagged {{rfc-level|Usage notes at L4+ not in L3 POS section (AutoFormat would have corrected level of Declension)}}. You haven't done anything wrong, but the person who created the entries put the Declension header at level 3, instead of level 4. (e.g. 4 ='s: "====Declension===="). You might fix these as you are updating entries? (Existing ones with tags will get fixed sooner or later.) Robert Ullmann 11:44, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

OK, I'll try to fix this while updating entries. Alessandro 14:41, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

epsi

Is this merely a misspelling (deletable), or another spelling of the same word?—msh210℠ 17:54, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Never mind: I see someone's deleted it.—msh210℠ 18:12, 2 February 2009 (UTC)