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What to bold

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I understand what you're saying, but I think that although certain prepositions that are licensed by a particular adjective (e.g., involved in, responsible for, aware of, etc.) are very common, they really are just complements, not part of the head. I would stick with just emboldening :-) the head word.--Brett 14:00, 20 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Hm, okay, I just thought it might be misleading, but I can live with how it's written now. --rimshottalk 09:58, 21 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Adjective template

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Thanks for the changes. Is there any way to automatically change all the 200-300 adjectives that have the old syntax?--Brett 10:48, 21 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

I guess AWB or anything similar could be used to do that, but there really aren't so many adjectives that need the change. Most adjectives are either regular or non-comparable. I'll just change the rest. --rimshottalk 11:35, 21 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Done. I've found some strange inflections on the way, so it's good not to have done it automatically. --rimshottalk 12:28, 21 April 2007 (UTC)Reply
Thanks!--Brett 19:57, 21 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

Target

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Hi, Rimshot! Thank you for your contributions. As you can see, I've added a target to the main page. I hope everyone will be inspired to work together to achieve it.--Brett 17:02, 4 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Good luck with that goal. Maybe I'll add a few entries. --rimshottalk 11:19, 5 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Transwiki

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Hi. I transwikied Hadith. Did I do it correctly? (I didn't transwiki to the Transwiki namespace, but directly to Hadith. Is it ok?) Huji 16:18, 29 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

I am no expert on transwiki'ing, but it seems fine to me. There is no need to use the Transwiki namespace if you immediately format the page as a wiktionary entry. One thing, though: the dictionaries I checked have hadith as regular noun, not as proper noun. This isn't obvious, as many pages, in particular this one, freely switch between hadith and Hadith. I wanted to move the page to hadith. Brett was faster than me, however. --rimshottalk 17:57, 29 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
Well, to be frank, I didn't make hadith's first word capitalize to mean any thing! I just wasn't aware that in wiktionary, articles are case-sensitive in regard to their first word. Huji 17:10, 30 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Foul Fowl

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I knew that!  :-) --Coppertwig 12:50, 1 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

Sure :p --rimshottalk 08:59, 2 August 2007 (UTC)Reply