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Thank you for all your hard work recently! Again, it would be useful for you to look at our explanation of how to make an entry. In particular, note how our defining conventions prefer sentences over phrases.--Brett (talk) 12:24, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

I thought I had switched to sentences.Leucostictes (talk) 12:37, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

For adolescent, you have "A person going through sexual maturation." This is a noun phrase, not a sentence. A sentence would be "An adolescent is a person adolescent going through sexual maturation." Your definition has no main verb. Also, avoid saying something means or refers to something else, and other similar language.--Brett (talk) 18:51, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

I correct adolescent. Sorry I forget to do sentences sometimes. I think I've improved compared to the time I edited here a few years ago though.Leucostictes (talk) 18:53, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Is this a good entry?[1] I got it from the word list of recommended entries Barras sent me when he complained I was adding irrelevant words. Leucostictes (talk) 18:57, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Before putting an entry together, spend a good deal of time thinking about a word, looking at how other dictionaries define it, and looking at examples of how it's used. In the case of statutory, You wrote, "Something statutory is...", but this is not how the word is used, so it's misleading. Statutory is an attributive adjective. That means that it's almost always used before a noun. You would say statutory age, for instance, but not your age is statutory. Another attributive adjective would be elder. You talk about an elder son, but you don't say somebody elder or her son is elder. So, you should go to the corpus and look for collocations of nouns that come after statutory. You'll find words like rape, authority, language, law, interpretation, provision, reach, approach, definition, etc. Some of those will be easy to understand and some won't. So, after choosing the easier ones, a good definition would be something like "Statutory authority, language, definitions, etc, are based on statute."

When I was making a lot of new entries, it would often take me 15 minutes or more to do a simple entry. Longer entries could take up to 45 minutes. It's hard. Take your time. A few really good entries are much more useful than a bunch of poorly considered ones.--Brett (talk) 22:58, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Do you like my revision on statutory?Leucostictes (talk) 23:35, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, but no. Adjectives don't typically function as subjects in a sentence.--Brett (talk) 00:40, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

I changed it again.Leucostictes (talk) 00:45, 4 September 2017 (UTC)

Better.--Brett (talk) 17:10, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Responding to Spam

99.99% of spammers are robots with disposable user names. They never come back, so there's no point talking to them. Please, just ignore these, and I'll deal with them.--Brett (talk) 02:24, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

Can I still blank their articles and nominate them for deletion when they come up?Leucostictes (talk) 03:48, 10 September 2017 (UTC)

You can if you'd like. Also, please don't create talk pages for anonymous users. They never read them.--Brett (talk) 16:55, 15 September 2017 (UTC)