Wiktionary talk:Votes/2016-02/Placement of "Alternative forms"

Examples

Was it meant to link hardworking (which currently has an ===Alternative forms=== section) instead of hard-working (which is merely defined as an alternative form of the previous)? --Tropylium (talk) 18:34, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Fixed that. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 21:04, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

Question

A question: If this passes, what will be done about entries with multiple POS sections where an alternative form applies to all POSs, such as color? Will color have to have two "Alternative forms" sections, one for the noun senses and one for the verb senses? —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 03:14, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Yes, as far as I can tell. The entry color has separate synoyms sections for the noun and verb senses. It would make sense for each POS to have different alternative forms sections. (to me at least) --Daniel Carrero (talk) 05:07, 16 February 2016 (UTC)

Alternative forms are often POS-specific, as at lowercase and sjambok, so I think it's not bad that they will be required to be listed in a POS-specific way if this vote passes. - -sche (discuss) 19:40, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

Concerning Templates and Headers

If this ever gets approved, then that means that ===Alternative forms=== in the virtual keyboard on the bottom of edit mode will have to be changed to ====Alternative forms==== and then moved to between ====Usage notes==== and ====Synonyms====. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 19:52, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

UK/US English

If this passes, is there some settled way of warning a FL-speaker who's come from his own L1 entry to an English entry to check a word's pronunciation that the spelling he's looking at isn't appropriate for the variant of English he's learning? Should it be done as in e.g. colour or favor, or should it be done as in grey or haemophilia? --Droigheann (talk) 16:07, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

I think the way it's done at color/colour is better, but it should be made clearer that the tag only applies to the spelling. --WikiTiki89 16:11, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Perhaps we could reintroduce "alternative spellings", and keep it at the top while putting "alternative forms" down below. —CodeCat 17:02, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

But sometimes the alternative spelling only applies to a particular POS. For example, license/licence. --WikiTiki89 18:33, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

As in gray then? I mean using a qualifier after the headword line template, having (US) in front of each sense seems an overkill, suggesting that the sense, too, is US-specific. --Droigheann (talk) 00:29, 20 February 2016 (UTC)

That is a quite a bit longer than I had hoped. --WikiTiki89 04:09, 20 February 2016 (UTC)