User talk:Pescavelho

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Ancient Greek pronunciations

When adding {{grc-IPA}} to Ancient Greek entries, please be sure to add a parameter marking α ι υ as long or short (outside of diphthongs). Thanks! —Mahāgaja · talk 09:18, 29 July 2024 (UTC)

Redirects and Hebrew romanization

Hey, please note WT:REDIR, we don't create redirects at predictable uppercase forms like you did at Phono-semantic matching, as these serve no purpose. (In general we use redirects quite sparingly.)

Another point I wanted to note is that there is a romanization guide for Hebrew: WT:AHE. Also note that by convention we always include the "modern" romanization mentioned on WT:AHE (e.g. "nikúd" instead of "niqqūd"), whereas you have been replacing these modern romanizations with your own variants in many places recently. We do allow for scholarly romanization ("In some etymology sections, the scholarly romanization may be preferred, in that case usually include both, regular then scholarly, separated by a comma.") but note that your romanizations have been deviating from the scholarly romanization convention outlined at WT:AHE, so please try to conform to that if you feel the need to add such a romanization in addition to (never instead of) the modern romanization . — Mnemosientje (t · c) 21:05, 18 December 2024 (UTC)

I prefer narrower transliterations of Hebrew because my interest in Hebrew is mostly from a historical perspective whereas the romanization system currently in use is based specifically on modern Israeli Hebrew, not taking into account even other modern dialects like the Ashkenazi, Sephardic and Yemenite ones. In any case, I'd be happy to use both transliterations if that's allowed, and in any case I don't understand why there isn't a standardized "auto-transliteration" system like Greek, Arabic, Russian, etc. have. Pescavelho (talk) 12:21, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

I see, makes sense, but please do stick to the romanization schemes at WT:AHE, both when using a modern romanizationand when using historically-informed scholary romanization. If people start using their own ad-hoc interpretations of what makes a good romanization scheme, we lose all semblance of consistency - which is lexicographically very undesirable.

As for whether the romanization schemes at WT:AHE are any good, that's another matter. If you think we should move towards different romanization standards, I think the best venue to start a discussion on that front would be WT:Beer parlour. These things require community support and input; unilaterally inventing a new scheme is not the way to go and results in a confusing and unpredictable dictionary for users.

As for automatisation - I am not sure either. It seems difficult, but not impossible. You could ask at WT:Grease pit, I am not that great with Lua myself. — Mnemosientje (t · c) 15:21, 19 December 2024 (UTC)