User talk:YukaSylvie

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Galway Irish

Hi, I've edited Module:labels/data/regional so that the label {{lb|ga|Galway}} automatically categorizes terms into CAT:Galway Irish. That means you don't have to add the category manually anymore. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 13:18, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

In fact, all the categories that you're adding manually don't need to be adding. Please stop placing them in entries. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 02:30, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

corbie

Just checking your revisions here – be aware that {{usex}} is for invented examples. The Walter Scott citation – if you want to put it in a template, which isn't strictly necessary – should use {{quote-book}}. Ƿidsiþ 05:31, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

|bor=1

Yuka, |bor=1 is used for terms in descendants trees that are borrowed. Please don't remove them. See the {{desc}} documentation for more guidance. Thanks. --{{victar|talk}} 03:04, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Sorting and long vowels in Japonic languages

Sort keys for long vowels should use the kana for that vowel value, and not the 長音符ちょうおんぷ. For instance, Okinawan ふぃーとぅ should be sorted at ふぃいとぅ.

Cheers, ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 18:50, 1 May 2019 (UTC)

Swadesh

If you're at all interested in Swadesh lists for Japanese, also be sure to have a look at Appendix:Japanese_Swadesh_list_(extended), as well as the Talk pages at Appendix_talk:Japanese_Swadesh_list_(extended) and Appendix_talk:Japanese_Swadesh_list. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │^{Tala við mig} 16:37, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

Descendants

Hi, the correct template for listing descendants of a term is {{desc}}, not {{der}}. See diff. Thanks! —Mahāgaja · talk 06:39, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

Labels

Please don't remove labels (e.g. in Special:Diff/52488343/53501333). In some cases {{topic}} and {{lb}} are redundant, but then the topic should be deleted and the label can stay (the category is added implictly). – Jberkel 08:46, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

gadje

IN ENGLISH (I dunno about in Roma language) one gadje can be a person, two gadjes two people. Look at [1]. Please restore the entry appropriately. Equinox ◑ 23:51, 29 August 2019 (UTC)

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Glottal stops at the beginning of words.

Why are you removing the glottal stops (the apostrophes) from the beginning of words that start with vowels in Okinawan romanization? MiguelX413 (talk) 02:16, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

I don't think we need apostrophes in romanizations of a word that starts with either "a", "i", "u", "e", or "o" because it always has a glottal stop. --YukaSylvie (talk) 02:27, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

@YukaSylvie: It's contrastive, for example 音おん is /ʔutu/ and 夫おっと is /utu/ in Okinawan. So they would respectively be 'utu and utu I think. There other other orthographies available too which we could discuss. MiguelX413 (talk) 02:44, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

@MiguelX413: I get the point. I'll do as you said. --YukaSylvie (talk) 02:46, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

@YukaSylvie: some orthographies would do /ʔutu/ as utu and /utu/ as wutu which might actually be better by the way. You had a good point. MiguelX413 (talk) 02:48, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

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Changing the reference templates for Okinawan is unnecessary and breaks most links on most pages.

I don't think its necessary to change them even if the SN or E may be redundant. MiguelX413 (talk) 14:56, 28 October 2019 (UTC)

Comorian

Hi YukaSylvia. I'm happy to see your interest in Comorian, but mistakes like the one you made here suggest to me that you do not know the language, and are just copying off of ORELC. Please be much more careful, especially when changing definitions from those made by editors who actually speak the language, like Echtio. If you're not sure you can make the judgement, then don't make the edit. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 19:26, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

@Metaknowledge: Thank you for advice. Yes, I depend on ORELC because it's the only dictionary I've found, and it's a useful one; it even lists which dialect uses a word. Does ORELC have some wrong information? What dictionary should I use? I have interest in Comorian because of my Comorian online friend. --YukaSylvie (talk) 05:27, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

It's a pretty good dictionary, but the grammatical information is sometimes not quite right, and it's not always perfectly clear. In examples like the edit linked above, you seem to have misinterpreted it. Relying blindly on a dictionary without studying that lsnguage or knowing a related one can be treacherous. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 05:31, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Vietnamese entries

Please add the pronunciation section and a period at the end of etymology section (if they present) whenever you create Vietnamese entries. Also, as not every word or phrase in Chinese has a Vietnamese equivalent, please be careful not to create "ghost" entries. Thank you.PhanAnh123 (talk) 09:14, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

ბორი

@YukaSylvie: What does 'boron' or dialectal 'mist, haze' have to do with 'vomit', 'wolf' or 'bride', 'daughter-in-law', 'sister-in-law'? Why did you add the Georgian entry to "also". Just because of how it sounds? I'm genuinely confused. Is this considered good form at wiktionary: do people really need to know that 'bori', which in Georgian refers to chemical element boron, also has random homophony in random unrelated languages, with various meanings from 'vomit' to 'wolf' to 'bride'? 46.242.14.191 07:32, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Japanese sorting

Hi - you don't need to add sort=xxx to Japanese, Okinawan (etc) entries anymore, as it's handled automatically. Theknightwho (talk) 22:51, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

Irish entries

Hi, please don't copy and paste definitions from Ó Dónaill's dictionary here, as it is still under copyright. Thanks! —Mahāgaja · talk 13:02, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

diff

Hello,

In that old edit you have removed the word stress from the headword. Please don't do that. Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 06:41, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Romani entries

Hi - please don't edit Romani entries anymore. You've made a really big mess in all the etymology sections of various varieties of Romani by saying that they all inherited terms from standard Romani. That's just not how it works. Romani is a macrolanguage, and the variety we call "Romani" is the standard, representative variety, but it doesn't mean all the other varieties developed out of that one. It would be just as wrong to claim that Neapolitan terms all developed out of standard Italian, for instance. Theknightwho (talk) 23:38, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Even worse, you actually erased etymologies added by someone else in order to fit the "inheritance" from Romani, even in cases where the pre-existing etymology said something else ([2]). Even if Kalo Finnish Romani were descended from standard Romani, the fact that Kalo Finnish Romani enja and Romani enia are similar does not mean you can assume that one inherited from the other. That's a really basic error, and really concerns me about your edits more generally (which I note are across a wide array of languages). Theknightwho (talk) 23:42, 23 June 2024 (UTC)