User talk:Phol

Thanks for adding all these skins. When you add quotations, could you format them like this? Our format is fully explained here. Here are our other policies: - -sche (discuss) 01:50, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

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OK! Phol 01:59, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your help with referencing for the Tagalog language definition at the page santorum. Much appreciated. ;) Cheers, -- Cirt (talk) 23:13, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

usage notes

Hi,

The usage notes are not as useful as correct templates. Please don't add usage notes on every language name in German. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить)} 00:53, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

You're right, templates are a better place for the information. Putting a footnote in the template with a link to Wiktionary:About German, and moving what I wrote in Deutsch about the uses and significations of the various declined forms to that page, would probably be best. Phol (talk) 05:15, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

I think it would be good to create a template for language names, separate from the other noun templates, so that it can handle the peculiarities of article usage that do not affect other nouns, and so that it can have that footnote. Phol (talk) 05:26, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

I've created Template:de-noun-langname, and tried it in Deutsch. What do you think? It has an explanatory note/link, and it does away with the "article" column, because the article is in this case in the main column. Phol (talk) 05:43, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Yes, that looks good, thank you. BTW, usually, the order of cases is N, G, D, A but most German templates use different order for some reason. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить)} 05:50, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

The description is too wordy and has lots of references, so I don't feel like adding it to the actual template. --Anatoli ^{(обсудить)} 05:53, 3 April 2012 (UTC)