User talk:Plague von Karma

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Thadh (talk) 14:18, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Yiddish entries

I'm hardly in the position to dispute any of the substantive content that you've written, but please learn a few templates and standards as applied to Yiddish entries. List the gender of the noun in {{yi-noun}} using "g=m" or whatever the gender of the noun is. Simple plural forms can be indicated with shorthands like "pl=s" or "pl=n". For non-English entries, we generally don't write glosses starting in capital letters and ending with a full stop/period. Learn the difference between [[]], {{alt}}, {{m}}, {{l}}, {{cog}}, {{bor}}, {{der}} and so on, and use them as appropriate in etymology and usage note sections. You even misspelled קוזינקע (kuzinke) as קוזניקע (kuznike) earlier, which I had to fix. Also, why is אויסזידלונג (oyszidlung) listed as a noun, even though its glosses are verb definitions??

Either way, a language as, frankly, ignored as Yiddish on Wiktionary welcomes any editors who want to contribute. Just please, re-read your entries before you post them, and do go back and fix your older Yiddish entries, if you please. Insaneguy1083 (talk) 05:01, 19 December 2024 (UTC)

Yeeeah, that's my bad. Chances are I won't be contributing future entries as I've largely finished what I set out to do - which was going through some specific dictionaries and filling things out. If I happen to find Blumenthal's dictionary I may do more, though? I'll see about fixing some of my entries but I can't be certain as to whether I'll notice, I'm terrible at that sort of thing.

Regarding category errors, I would sometimes copypaste an existing entry and edit from there to make things easier, and obviously, formatting errors would slip through. That's my bad - I'm autistic and easily get overwhelmed, it's something I'm working on. On the note of etymology bits, I used {{bor}} as the majority of these were such, though I wouldn't be surprised if I overgeneralised at a certain point in the thick of it, especially in more complex etymologies.

I'm glad to receive some feedback on these entries, the words are certainly very obscure and not commonly used nowadays. - Plague von Karma (talk) 10:02, 19 December 2024 (UTC)