User talk:RubixLang

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References

Be sure to put a bullet point before references, as in diff. —Aryaman^{A (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान)} 16:14, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

RubixLang, please add sources to all your PIE entries, otherwise I'm going to start adding deletion requests to them. --Victar (talk) 15:26, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

RubixLang, adding blue links for the sake of blue links is not a good practice. Please stop creating poorly constructed PIE entries with no sources[1][2]. You can't just expect other users to clean up your entries for you. --Victar (talk) 17:20, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Inherited

Please only use {{inh}} for terms that are actually inherited, not terms that are derived. I fixed this at *dālom. —Rua (mew) 17:26, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Gaulish

Gaulish is a virtually unattested language. The Gaulish words we have are Latin borrowings (see Proto-Celtic *bolgos), and should be labeled as such beside the Gaulish recostructions. Can you please fix some of your recent edits to reflect this? Thanks. --{{victar|talk}} 12:20, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

StarLing and Proto-Afroasiatic

Please don't edit entries based on StarLing. They're notoriously unreliable, compiled by people with no domain-specific knowledge and full of transcriptional errors, ultimately biased toward supporting fringe hypotheses that the mainstream linguistic community (and Wiktionary) do not accept. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 22:29, 4 June 2020 (UTC)

I'm having a hard time finding free sources outside some previews of books in Google Books. Do you have any suggestions? RubixLang (talk) 11:48, 5 June 2020 (UTC)

There are no fully reliable sources for PAA. But this is a good lesson in general: protolanguages are complicated, contentious, and easy to get wrong. If you don't know much about any language, but especially a protolanguage, please don't edit those entries. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 01:39, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

{{topics}}

Thanks for adding some categories to the Proto-Iranian entries. Just so you know though, the preferred method is to use the template {{topics}}, like done here. Thanks. --{{victar|talk}} 17:08, 1 October 2020 (UTC)