User talk:Myrelia

Your changes on illegal, illegal alien, illegal immigrant

You've merged/moved the translations boxes from illegal alien and illegal immigrant over to illegal. I am strongly in support of reducing redundant translation boxes and I thank you for your work of merging them, however, I would have personally put the translations in illegal immigrant instead, because it seems like that is the most neutral term of those three. Note that illegal as a noun meaning illegal immigrant is colloquial (/ offensive), thus I am personally not in support of moving all translations to that specific entries when there exist neutral ones. What do you think? If you agree, we'd replace the box in illegal with a Template:trans-see box. --Fytcha (talk) 18:36, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

illegal has multiple parts of speech (adjective, noun), and the noun has multiple senses (technique, substances, immigrant, spy), so in that entry it's easier to see which languages have a similar polysemy, it's easier to see that e.g. нелега́л m (nelegál, “immigrant; spy”) has at least two meanings as well. --Myrelia (talk) 23:07, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Fair enough. --Fytcha (talk) 23:24, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

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Moving pages

When you move an entry, it's always good to look at "What links here" (available from the sidebar of the entry or by typing in the page name at Special:WhatLinksHere). There are often translations or etymologies that link to the term and need to be edited or (occasionally) removed. Such things may make admins reluctant to delete redirects marked for speedy deletion. I deleted siraplis before I remembered to check, and discovered that there was a Sudovian translation at silver/translations that I wasn't sure about. I think it comes from the same source, but I'd rather not have to do the research myself for a speedy deletion. Chuck Entz (talk) 20:37, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

I made such checks. As for sirablas:

• Sudovian isn't Old Prussian, so there was no reason to change the translation.
• The redirect was bad (WT:Redirections).
• A new entry sirablas - be it for Sudovian or what ever language - can always be created, if attested.

--Myrelia (talk) 13:06, 16 November 2021 (UTC)