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Can I add foreign words in Simple English Wiktionary?

Sorry, I am new to Simple English Wiktionary, and you seems to be the most active editor here so I think I can ask this on your talk page. Can I add foreign words to this Wiktionary and explain it Simple English? All(/most) words that I found here are English words and I wonder if there is a rule that forbids foreign from being added. Or is it just because this is a young project? --Trezoo (talk) 11:09, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

@Trezoo: Hello. Foreign words are not accepted here. --Minorax (talk) 11:13, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Oh thanks. --Trezoo (talk) 11:14, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Casual stuff...

Pretty lonely here... eh? Last editor (Ferien) edited a day ago. You must have made 95% of this wiki's articles(???). That's more the the SE wikipedia's TDKR Chicago 101 who created 17% of that wiki's articles. Also, thank you for moving Hyperthermia to hyperthermia. I am not used to wiktionary and thus capitalise all article(?) names. Elytrian (talk) 15:04, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

Excited

sorry 🙏 Knocktowel99 (talk) 04:02, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

How we will see unregistered users

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18:19, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

Changes

Hi, Minorax. Nice to meet you. I'm excited you've chosen SEWT as a place you want to contribute. I may seem like a SEWT noob, since you haven't seen me around until a few days ago, but I'm actually a veteran around here. I've just been on a very extended WikiBreak. I don't know how long my return will last, but let's hope it's a nice long time.

I must say that I'm impressed by your passion and staggered by your level of activity.

Thanks for cleaning up my new entries and adding things like pronunciation. I did notice you made the definitions into complete sentences. That's what I was doing for the first few entries after my return, but then I ran across a few without that, so I switched. I think some of the ones I saw might have been the low cardinal numbers like four. Many of them say something like, "The number four." Especially on the Noun definition. I am certainly in favor of complete sentences for definitions, though. They are easier to read and understand, I think.

I noticed one thing that I don't know how to fix: the numbers box at the top, on the entries about ordinals, doesn't include the multiples of 10 above the current number that the cardinals does (except for first and second and twentieth). I think that should go at least through tenth. Also, it stops at tenth, with no number to the right. If you choose eleventh down below in the related words, the box is there, with a link back to tenth, but not from tenth to eleventh. I'm hoping you know how it works and how to fix it. There are some other kinks to work out with that very useful box, but that's a good start.

I look forward to working more with you! --Cromwellt|talk|contribs 17:48, 14 February 2022 (UTC)

@Cromwellt: Hey. Glad to see you back! I've requested for help on en.wikt as I can't really read lua. Minorax (talk) 11:09, 15 February 2022 (UTC)

garlicmonger

Hello, could you please let me know why did you remove the quotation? Here, at Simple, are we not supposed to have illustrative quotes on entries? Thanks, —Svārtava (t/u) • 06:27, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

@Svartava: Yes, we do occasionally have quotes in entries. However, the one at garlicmonger seems to be a tad too complex. Minorax (talk) 09:59, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Then, where do we add the quotes that may not be appropriate/desirable in the entry itself (it seems we don't have a citations namespace?) or do we avoid them altogether? —Svārtava (t/u) • 11:02, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

@Svartava: Generally, we do not use quotes as they are typically more complex in nature. In place of that, we use simple sentences in attempt to make the word more understandable.

At butcher, one of the example sentences provided is "I went to the butcher to buy a steak.". This describes that a butcher is a person who sells meat.

In my opinion, example sentences should only be provided when 1. it complements the explanation of the word's meaning or 2. shows how the word can be used in a sentence (mainly for verbs and adjectives). Words that essentially describes itself, such as fishmonger and garlicmonger, do not need to have an accompanying example sentence as it would be plain redundant to have "I went to the fishmonger to buy fish". Minorax (talk) 11:19, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

I got it, thank you for the explanation. I'll ask in case of any questions in future. —Svārtava (t/u) • 11:24, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Is the trimmed quote at thural alright? I added it since the term is obsolete and uncommon and the meaning might otherwise be a bit confusing/unclear. —Svārtava (t/u) • 11:52, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

@Svartava: Seems fine. Minorax (talk) 12:12, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Entry cleanup

I just looked through your edits on my pages. So sorry if I made a mess with the formatting and stuff, being relatively inexperienced here and used to the enwiktionary styles. I'll mind them from now on. Thanks. :) —Svārtava (t/u) • 11:12, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

It's ok, everyone starts from gaining experience and you should be able to get hold of our formatting pretty soon. Minorax (talk) 11:20, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Why my article being reverted

Please I received a notification saying my article is reverted by you and I was wondering why it is made ? Pharizon (talk) 01:06, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

This is a dictionary. It doesn't include articles. That is why your edit of draft was reverted. Perhaps you're looking for the simple English Wikipedia.--Brett (talk) 11:13, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

My RFP

I guess you are an admin, can you tell me whether I'm qualified for this task or not, accordingly I will withdraw my request. DRC-B5 (talk) 11:18, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

For Rollback DRC-B5 (talk) 11:18, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

No specific comments on whether you qualify now. You've only edited here for 3 days and made no anti-vandalism edits here, I believe TwinkleGlobal will suffice for now. Minorax (talk) 11:24, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

Category:Pages with ignored display titles

This category was deleted by you as "Unnecessary category. Linked pages are those in userspace". I found that the category now includes pages outside userspace, so I think the situation may have changed. Do you still think that this is an unnecessary category? MathXplore (talk) 08:55, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Hello. I've undeleted the page. Minorax (talk) 02:07, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick response. MathXplore (talk) 06:59, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

format issue

Hello, Minorax.

I notice that without “

”, many pages would look ill-formatted, such as although.

I use mobile phone so I don't know the page on computer but on phone, the page looks eccentric.

——Victor Bob (talk) 05:11, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

While the Simple Wiktionary aims to make the site conducive to all, a vast majority of users are using computers and most templates are catered for them. I've made some changes to some templates and I hope it makes the mobile view less eccentric. Minorax (talk) 05:37, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

Hello Minorax and Victor Bob.

Pardon me for jumping into your conversation, but I think that the most common platform is actually changing, especially in places outside of the Anglosphere. For example, many more people in Sub-Saharan Africa have cell phones than have access to a laptop or desktop computer. Almost all their web access is by mobile. Sorry that I don't have references to back up what I've heard, but I believe it's true. To me, that means the view on mobile should be something of a priority. Maybe not top priority, but not the bottom either. I always used to view and edit Wikipedia on my laptop and now I almost always do so on my phone. --Cromwellt|talk|contribs 02:10, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Are there issues that you see when on mobile view? --Min☠︎rax^«¦talk¦» 03:43, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

GS action

Hi Minorax, I didn't realize that you are one of the sysop in this project. I almost always check if there are active admins before deleting pages, but this time I forgot. Yours sincerely DARIO SEVERI (talk) 12:06, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Your prolificacy

Help! I can't keep up. :-) Brett (talk) 14:21, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Transitive verbs

A transitive verb should include an object in the definition. See my edit on await for an example. Brett (talk) 14:23, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Whoops, too sleepy to edit :P Minorax (talk) 10:46, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

The way to create a new lexical entry

Hello, Minorax. Could you please tell me how to creat a new lexcial entry by using a mobilephone? Victor Bob (talk) 00:47, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Hello. I might not be able to help you here. I only edit using a desktop as I find the mobile interface a pain to look at. Minorax (talk) 13:28, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Unsupported titles

Do you know what magic is involved in making https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Unsupported_titles/Greater_than render as it does?--Brett (talk) 13:50, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

uhh this probably needs some digging into en.wikt's templates. will consult a sysadmin on how to do it. Minorax (talk) 15:44, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Hello, please take a look at the page again. Working for me already. Minorax (talk) 04:52, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

once

你好，Minorax。我注意到在你的主页上，你声称你的中文达到了标准水平。所以请允许我用中文向你传达信息。在词条once的最上面，有一行文字(script error)。我不知道如何操作，来使得这行文字消失。请问你能帮我吗？谢谢。 ——Victor Bob [talk] 23:23, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

你好，問題已修復。Minorax (talk) 03:51, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

另外，請將您的簽名更改為 ——[[User:Victor Bob|<span style="font-family:Georgia;">'''Victor Bob'''</span>]] [[User talk:Victor Bob#top|<span style="font-family:Georgia;">[talk]</span>]] 因為它包含lint錯誤. Minorax (talk) 03:53, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

好的，我立即更改，感谢您指出我的签名问题。另外，我注意到您用的是繁体汉字。我之前学习古代汉语(也就是文言文)的时候，也学过一段时间繁体汉字。对于一个母语不是汉语的人来说，能学好简体汉字已经非常了不起了，更何况您会繁体中文。我由衷佩服您学习外语的耐心和毅力👍👍👍。 Victor Bob [talk] 05:16, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/Poopyfartbutt85

Hi, could you please block the user above? They don't appear to be contributing constructively, and the revision with the bee movie script ([1]) needs revdelling. Thanks! Fehufanga (talk) 22:27, 28 August 2023 (UTC)

Blocked. Minorax (talk) 01:36, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

to

您好，Minorax。请问您可以帮我把词条to的第一个词类标签Non-finite auxiliary链接到词条non-finite auxiliary吗？ Victor Bob [talk] 07:02, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

已编辑。 Minorax (talk) 07:09, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

谢谢。 Victor Bob [talk] 07:52, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

中国🇨🇳

你好，Minorax。联大第2758号决议承认“中华人民共和国政府的代表是中国在联合国组织的唯一合法代表”，这就解决了谁在联合国代表全中国的问题，不容割裂。联合国秘书处法律事务办公室也明确表示，“联合国认为，台湾作为中国的一个省没有独立地位”。白纸黑字，清清楚楚。请注意，联合国对台湾的称谓也是明明白白的“台湾，中国的省（Taiwan, Province of China）”。我认为你不应该随意篡改China这一词条，中国台湾和中国大陆同属一个中国，台湾是中华人民共和国不可分割的一部分，两岸人民同根同源，血浓于水。十四亿中国人民绝不会同意你对China词条的错误释义。希望你能立即改正。 Victor Bob [talk] 05:21, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

请参WT:NPOV。大部分的国家都认为台湾是个独立的国家。可以說台灣是中國的一部分，這只是一種觀點，但不是事實。你把台灣和中國是不同國家這句話去掉，就是把它變成了事實。Minorax (talk) 05:25, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Chance of Sockpuppetry

Hi there! I am suspicious about a user who had recently joined Wiktionary. The user's name is called MichaelSeara. This user has a username in common with another user to joined about a few hours ago, Michaeldyelp. Is there a way you could investigate into these two users and possibly report them on the Steward requests/Global page? Thanks. Celeste369 ( Hey There!) 19:45, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

They made no edits so there is no justification to block them. Minorax (talk) 02:09, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/2A12:5940:F67F:0:6473:922C:D829:525 (Possible proxy?)

I found this IP via our abuse filter. proxycheck.io and GetIPIntel at [2] say this is an open proxy but other parameters are negative. Do you think this is an open proxy? MathXplore (talk) 09:15, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

Good day. Based on this tool, it is a proxy. A google search also indicates that the network host is a cloud server --Min☠︎rax^«¦talk¦» 09:26, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

See also vs Related words

I see you've gone through and replaced See Also with Related words. We've used related words for etymological relationships, but your change has introduced a lot of semantic relationships. Brett (talk) 10:57, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Mind pointing me to the pages? I'll revert them. --Min☠︎rax^«¦talk¦» 10:58, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Well, plus and minus are two, but you've made so many edits in the last 24 hours. Brett (talk) 14:59, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

I believe the mistakes made are words in Category:Prepositions? --Min☠︎rax^«¦talk¦» 15:08, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Perhaps not just them. Another is fuchsia. Brett (talk) 15:52, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

Above as an adjective

The word above should be an adjective in the sentence "See the above discussion" as it was defined in CGEL. Saigudfin (talk) 19:09, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Good day, you are free to edit and add content to the page. --Min☠︎rax^«¦talk¦» 04:47, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

Blanking talk page

Hello, I am trying to remove some vandalism from my talk page, but blanking my own page is being blocked. Could you please look into allowing people to blank their own talk pages? Thank you. Ternera (talk) 21:25, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Wiktionary:Simple_talk#Category:Emoticons

Hello, this discussion has been open for a year and there are no further movements in this thread. As an uninvolved admin, can you see if there is any consensus for admin action and close the discussion? Thank you for your attention. MathXplore (talk) 03:28, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Wiktionary:Requests_for_deletion#Category:Nouns_with_irregular_plurals,_Category:Irregular_nouns,_and_Category:Irregular_parts_of_speech

Thank you for closing a WT:ST thread. Can you also have a look at this RFD as an uninvolved admin? It has been open for about a year, and there are no further comments in this discussion. I look forward to hearing from you. MathXplore (talk) 02:45, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Done. --Min☠︎rax^«¦talk¦» 15:22, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

Report

Hi, this IP is creating spam pages and trolling. You may want to block them: https://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2605:8D80:1268:1C30:2C56:2752:9B43:5FAB. Thanks. Ternera (talk) 14:46, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Blocked. Thanks. --Min☠︎rax^«¦talk¦» 14:54, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Special:Contributions/2804:D51:4400:0:0:0:0:0/40

Hello, do you think this range is enough to cover the recent complex content additions here? Should the range be wider? MathXplore (talk) 01:31, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Seems fine for now, expansion can be made if they pop up outside of this range. --Min☠︎rax^«¦talk¦» 05:23, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Obsolescence

When you edited obsolescence, you made it incorrect. The word is not used that way. 67.188.203.40 (talk) 19:49, 7 August 2024 (UTC)

Please check your e-mail

I look forward to hearing from you. MathXplore (talk) 11:04, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Replied --Min☠︎rax^«¦talk¦» 12:16, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice. MathXplore (talk) 12:22, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Requesting feedback for special:redirect/logid/129864 and related cases

Hello, I'm sending this to get your feedback as a CU-experienced user on the cases mentioned in the heading above. My previous decision (special:redirect/logid/129864) is based on the concern of somebody having/using so many accounts more than the number of our active editors with their involvement in sensitive topics (wide-range RFDs like Wiktionary:Requests_for_deletion/archive#Category:Nouns_with_irregular_plurals,_Category:Irregular_nouns,_and_Category:Irregular_parts_of_speech and Wiktionary:Simple_talk/Archive_33#Category:Emoticons, ST discussions for sitewide changes like Wiktionary:Simple_talk/Archive_33#Proposal:_Change_the_languages_on_the_login_page, etc.). In other words, I thought that this would be a threat to a smaller community like here. As closing remarks, I have pointed out that the user is welcome to come back with their main account at that time (special:diff/524419, special:diff/524420). However, recent related enwiki CU results show that my request for minimal-account restriction has been disregarded (w:special:redirect/logid/2840123, Special:Diff/533214). Although the latest account is not so much active for this project. With respect to this background should we:

• Block all locally involved accounts (Special:Contributions/Kk.urban, Special:Contributions/Batrachoseps)
• Only block the latest account
• Take no further action for now but continue to keep an eye on the situation.

In your opinion, what would be the best option here? I look forward to hearing from you. MathXplore (talk) 00:48, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello. Can't seem to find any vote stacking instances so I'd say just block the latest account and force the user to appeal their block from "Lights and freedom". --Min☠︎rax^«¦talk¦» 02:26, 17 October 2024 (UTC)

Y Done Thank you for the feedback, instructions are provided in the block reason. MathXplore (talk) 04:36, 17 October 2024 (UTC)