User talk:Olybrius

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gnoquer

Hi there. I was wondering why this isn't (deprecated template usage) groquer rather than (deprecated template usage) gnoquer? SemperBlotto 22:09, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

Good question indeed! Well, my guess would be that the translator thought the spelling (deprecated template usage) groquer would have been too close to (deprecated template usage) croquer not to look awkward, so he preferred taking some liberty and coined (deprecated template usage) gnoquer which might have a more alien feel. I considered mentioning that in the etymology section, but as it's mere putation, I refrained. - Olybrius 12:42, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

琉璃

Thanks for adding the Mandarin entry. Please don't forget to add a separator (denoted by four hyphens or ----) between different language sections. Jamesjiao → ^{T ◊ C} 21:39, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

se résoudre and s'apprêter

Reflexive verbs are redirected to and defined in the non-reflexive entry per WT:AFR. See résoudre and apprêter. This is for future reference. Jamesjiao → ^{T ◊ C} 02:48, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

réaction de Maréchal

Hi there. Do you know which Maréchal this is named after? None of the ones in fr.Wikipedia seems to fit. SemperBlotto (talk) 15:12, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Nope, and my dictionary doesn't help (too bad, because it's choke-full of such words...) - Olybrius (talk) 15:34, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

de nuit

How would one use this in a non SoP way? Mglovesfun (talk) 17:43, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

What do you mean? - Olybrius (talk) 17:48, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

In what way is 'de nuit' admissible here? Mglovesfun (talk) 17:57, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Just as (deprecated template usage) at night it's quite idiomatic, as far as I know you can't create many de + something. There is de jour, de bon matin and that's all, no de matin, de soir... The TLFi wouldn't bother mentioning it otherwise I presume. - Olybrius (talk) 18:08, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

I forgot, there's also de bonne heure... - Olybrius (talk) 18:21, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Template:R:diec

This template that you created has an error in it, and is triggering errors on pages that you included it on as well. Could you fix it please? —CodeCat 00:18, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Yes, I noticed. I will try to figure out what's wrong. But I am not a coder, I merely copypasted it from the Catalan Wiktionary where it works fine. - Olybrius (talk) 22:07, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Ahem, I've seen more constructive thant that... - Olybrius (talk) 09:11, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Attestation of Dutch vernacular names

May I implore you to read WT:ATTEST very carefully? Some of your vernacular names for plants in Dutch do not seem to have three durable attestations on line. I do not want to RFV them because the odds that they are durably used somewhere but not shown in Google Books because of copyright law are rather high, but it is still better not to create them unless you can include enough quotations in the entry. I note that Dutch is a WDL. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 13:57, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Er... I would rather have a RFV for the words you find dubious than your present vagueness. I am also quite surprised that the names of common weeds should be undocumented. I don't even mention weird archaic synonyms, just their usual names as mentioned in this book (which while not academical is a seemingly serious reprinted agronomical work, but indeed strangely not listed on Google Books). I will consider your remark when I work with rare endemic plants but for ubiquitous weeds that would be burdensome as I already check Wikipedia each time. - Olybrius (talk) 14:48, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

I don't see how, to paraphrase, "ensure that entries you create comply with CFI" is vague, but the entry for which I could not find three attested uses was gewoon guichelheil. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 15:57, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

"I will consider your remark when I work with rare endemic plants but for ubiquitous weeds that would be burdensome as I already check Wikipedia each time." I forgot to respond to this, but I should alert you that many article titles Wikipedia are not attested, even for native flora. In this case it is unlikely that the Wikipedians invented their own jargon, but they often use lists of vernacular names that may be little used in the real world. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 18:09, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Сауытбай

Thank you for creating the entries of Сауытбай/Sauytbay. However, according to the naming convention of Chinese Kazakhs, there is no Russified surname (-ев, -ов, etc.), and the patronyms are widely used instead. In terms of Сайрагүл Сауытбай, Сайрагүл is her given name and Сауытбай is her patronym a.k.a her father's given name. Vtgnoq7238rmqco (talk) 13:28, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for the information and corrections, I will remember that. Olybrius (talk) 15:31, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

Citations pages

Hello, is there a reason you make separate citation pages? I feel it would be more helpful for readers to have the quotes directly on the page, especially since these pages don't have any other illustrating quotations.--Tibidibi (talk) 19:00, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

That's a good question. I am not sure what differentiates them actually but tend to prefer the tab. I somehow consider it as a repository from which we could pick some citations to put in the article. Having the entirety of the quotes with all the references in the article often feels more overwhelming than helpful to me. So I usually start with adding to the tab and sometimes copy a quotation to the article. I also might edit/simplify a quotation to be used as a mere example in the article. - Olybrius (talk) 12:42, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Pakhoi

Voici les timbres d'Indochine française, vous pourriez être intéressé

PAK-HOI

--Geographyinitiative (talk) 18:43, 19 July 2021 (UTC)

Merci, ils sont choux ! Je ne connaissais même pas Beihai et savais encore moins que c'était en Indochine. Toutefois, comme ils sont en majuscules et sans accents je n'ose pas trop les utiliser pour pour Pak-Hoï. Peut-être pour Indo-Chine ? Je crois que je préfère attendre de rencontrer ces termes dans un texte... - Olybrius (talk) 12:40, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Simplified

Bonjour! 请注意[1] --Geographyinitiative (talk) 01:32, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

OK, noted. But since the actual article is always at the traditional version I can't help finding that a little fussy ;) - Olybrius (talk) 12:48, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Vidocq

"Most prevalent in the Pas-de-Calais department." is hardly an etymology is it..? Etymologies are about like, the linguistic origin of words, not where the words are used geographically speaking Acolyte of Ice (talk) 09:50, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

People actually don't migrate that much and high prevalence in a department often implies the surname is likely to originate from said department and I don't mention that information each time without thinking. Of course I wouldn't mention that info in immigration countries like the United States for instance but in Europe, when the surname isn't of obvious foreign origin, that seems very relevant. Here it hints that Vidocq might be derived from Dutch. Actually, except in recent years, the surname is only encountered in Pas-de-Calais. - Olybrius (talk) 10:09, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Occitan resources

Bonjour, are there any good online Occitan dictionaries which could be used to build reference templates? Or do we already have some? Jberkel 08:23, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Hello Jberkel, I know only one good online dictionary and we already have it: it is the Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana (for Languedocien). I am not sure what else there is, presumably not much (or maybe?), Occitan is not Catalan regrettably. But I didn't actually search, the DGLO and my dead tree copies for Limousin and Gascon being sufficient for my humble needs ;) - Olybrius (talk) 09:59, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm specifically interested in the Provençal dialect. I created baus, but now I'm not sure how this should be handled. Is this Provençal or just Mistralien orthography? The main lemma should then be bauç in this case (which is listed in the DGLO)? – Jberkel 12:27, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

I am unfamiliar with this dialect but found this site which mentions bauç as Provençal as well, so it seems fine to consider baus merely as the Mistralian spelling. - Olybrius (talk) 10:40, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

coris de Montpellier

The reference template name you used here does not exist, did you make a typo? Acolyte of Ice (talk) 13:47, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Just don't be so reactive ;) - Olybrius (talk) 13:50, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

I see you created it now, all good. Acolyte of Ice (talk) 13:51, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

Citations:chercher

Can I restore the provided citation here? Or can I delete this? This, that and the other (talk) 01:20, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Yes, you can delete it, I moved the citation to le chercher. I might indeed have been more explicit about that. Olybrius (talk) 11:00, 18 December 2023 (UTC)