User talk:Malhonen

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Thank you

What you are doing is great! Just a note that ====See Also==== and ====Related terms==== and other similar headings should have Four ='s. There is a bot that runs round fixing this for people, eventually; but hey - I wanted to say hello. Yours Conrad.Irwin 23:15, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

{{fuc-noun}}

I don't like the name of this template. Language templates should always start with the code for the language e.g. All Italian templates start "it-". SemperBlotto 11:13, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

That is the language code, fuc for the Pulaar language, spoken in Senegal and Mauritania. See ISO 639-3. Malhonen 13:55, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

setäpuoli

The problem is that there's nowhere to check. NSK (Nykysuomen sanakirja) does not know the word, and different people use it differently. My first thought was the same as yours, but when I checked at work around the coffee table, this definition (which is originally somebody else's; it has come here through the English entry uncle) got some support. The logic was that only a blood relative can be setä, and therefore "isän siskon mies" is a setäpuoli. Perhaps the right solution would be to add "setä" as synonym to the first sense, and write a user note saying that the actual usage of the term is ambiguous. Hekaheka 14:41, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

I have not been able to find any source where the word "setäpuoli" had been explicitely defined, which means that neither interpretation can be proven right or wrong. Besides, if we accept the translation "paternal half-uncle", we accept a whole lot of even more distant relatives under the term "setäpuoli". Hekaheka 21:54, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Bot?

Hi there, what are you using to do so many edits? - please note that you must not run bots without prior permission. Conrad.Irwin 13:18, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Just my fingers and an Internet Explorer on WinXP. I'm adding inflection templates to Finnish nouns and it's pretty quick and easy. I don't even know how to make a bot. Malhonen 13:19, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Ok, that's great - keep it up! Conrad.Irwin 13:22, 15 February 2008 (UTC) (That is why I checked, Jyril has been incorreclty blocked for being a bot more than once iirc :).