User talk:Monty Burns Jr
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By the way, I don't think your definition of water footprint seems correct. Compare (deprecated template usage) carbon footprint. Where are you getting these words & definitions from? --Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 15:10, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
- water footprint may not be exactly correct. Please check my edits
- I'm getting the words from the OED source. Definitions are being reworded. --Monty Burns Jr (talk) 15:12, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
- OK, I'll check it. Please note as well that we require terms to have durably archived citations. In short, that means don't add a term that hasn't been used three times in books, magazines, newspapers, books.google.com, or groups.google.com. Thanks! --Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 15:20, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
- Yep, all my words have had more than 3 uses. 3 is the minimum! That's nothing! --Monty Burns Jr (talk) 15:22, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry to bother you again, but we also don't accept words that are just the sum of their parts. Please see WT:RFD#water footprint. Thank you once more! --Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 16:15, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
- Got it. no sum of parts. I added it as it was on my list of missing words from the new batch of OED new words --Monty Burns Jr (talk) 16:21, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
- Sorry to bother you again, but we also don't accept words that are just the sum of their parts. Please see WT:RFD#water footprint. Thank you once more! --Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 16:15, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
- Yep, all my words have had more than 3 uses. 3 is the minimum! That's nothing! --Monty Burns Jr (talk) 15:22, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
- OK, I'll check it. Please note as well that we require terms to have durably archived citations. In short, that means don't add a term that hasn't been used three times in books, magazines, newspapers, books.google.com, or groups.google.com. Thanks! --Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 15:20, 3 August 2012 (UTC)