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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! --Apisite (talk) 20:08, 29 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I just wanted to say thank you for cleaning these up! Ultimateria (talk) 05:38, 10 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

No problem! I hope that my edits were helpful and that I didn't screw anything up. Tc14Hd (talk) 06:00, 10 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hey! What's your source for this? Worm spail (talk) 13:06, 21 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Worm spail My source is that I made it the f... just kidding. I downloaded the Wiktionary database dump and used grep to extract the edit counts from it. However, these counts are slightly off due to deleted pages, so I used the MediaWiki API to get the precise number. Tc14Hd (aka Marc) (talk) 13:18, 21 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Lol, I don't really understand that (nor care that I don't...). Out of curiosity, what was "I made it the f..." gonna be? "I made it the fuck up"??? Worm spail (talk) 14:08, 21 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Worm spail Yeah, you're right. It's "My source is that I made it the fuck up." Tc14Hd (aka Marc) (talk) 14:22, 21 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hmm, memes... Worm spail (talk) 15:11, 21 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Worm spail What would the world be without them... Tc14Hd (aka Marc) (talk) 16:13, 21 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

As a rule of thumb, I have no memory of Wiktionary edits that I made before the pandemic. However, when I have added foreign translations, it has often been because a foreign-language definition for the term existed at that title, or because that was the term as used in the Wikipedia article in that language. bd2412 T 04:11, 14 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

@BD2412 I see. In 2007, the Wikipedia article Fire and brimstone used to link to the German article Strafpredigt, but that link has been removed since. I mean, Strafpredigt isn't completely wrong since it can be translated as "fire-and-brimstone sermon". Tc14Hd (aka Marc) (talk) 13:43, 16 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Make sure your grammar is strong enough, before doing this blindly. The sun shone (out of the a**e), not shined. 2A00:23C5:FE1C:3701:B8F3:DD97:7822:1D7 22:52, 15 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Both shone and shined are used as the ed-form of shine. You claim that shined is never used in "modern slang", but it would be nice if you provided a source for that. On the contrary, if you google "thought the sun shined out of his ass", you get plenty of matches. Tc14Hd (aka Marc) (talk) 23:23, 15 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

I also added some quotations to thought the sun shined out of someone's ass. Tc14Hd (aka Marc) (talk) 00:08, 16 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

The problem with setting a module to throw an error for old edits is that module errors don't show up on watchlists- so the people who made the edits have no way to know there's anything wrong- and those of us who patrol CAT:E generally don't know how to fix them. That makes it your responsibility to monitor CAT:E for a week or so after you edit a module, and either fix the errors or get help from someone who can.

In this case, the only page currently in CAT:E (kuo) is due to your edit here to Module:goh-decl-noun, and the edit with the bad parameter was made 2 weeks ago. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:52, 26 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Damn it, I wasn't careful enough. This bad parameter is actually the result of an earlier change I made, namely removing the parameter |nom_sg= from the template {{goh-decl-noun-i-f}}. I had checked the most recent wikidump and concluded that there are no usages of that parameter, but of course it's possible for people to add new usages since then and I didn't check for that... I will now search for any remaining bad parameters and I will definitely be more careful next time. Tc14Hd (aka Marc) (talk) 16:28, 26 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

If you go to WT:TODO#Useful search queries you'll see a few queries (ignore the first couple and "the the") I've improvised using Special:Search to find specific syntax in entries. One caution, though, (aside from the overhead inherent in regex searches): there can be a lag of an hour or two between the latest edits and their discoverability by the search functions. Chuck Entz (talk) 20:36, 26 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

With respect to diff, I cannot find the source on Google Books anymore, so I presume that Google has downgraded its preview. Thank you for catching the error anyways. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 13:48, 27 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

Alright, thank you for replying. I'm glad to see you back. Tc14Hd (aka Marc) (talk) 00:08, 28 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

Most sources don't distinguish between Anglo-Norman and generic "Old French", which is why you will see Old French more often. But Anglo-Norman specifically was hugely important for English, because it was the direct source of many OF borrowings and explains a lot of our forms and spellings. In the case of generation, which I see you have edited, the OED is pretty definitive:

< (i) Anglo-Norman generacioun, generaciun, generatioun, generatiun, Anglo-Norman and Middle French generacion, generation (French génération) line of descent, body of individuals born about the same period, progeny, descendants (all early 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), creation by God (end of the 12th cent.), act or process of reproducing, or ability to reproduce, a living organism (end of the 12th cent.), family, tribe (end of the 13th cent. in Anglo-Norman), genealogy, pedigree (1342 in an apparently isolated attestation, subsequently from 1564 as plural noun, and from 1636 as singular noun), production (c1370), average time it takes for children to grow up, become adults, and have children of their own (1564),

and its etymon (ii) classical Latin generātiōn-, generātiō action or process of procreating, in post-classical Latin also fact or manner of being begotten, genealogy, offspring, progeny, fruits of the earth, produce, body of individuals born about the same period, race, class, or kind of persons (Vulgate), origin of the Son from the Father (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), time covered by the lives of a body of individuals born about the same period (4th cent.) < generāt-, past participial stem of generāre generate v. + ‑iō ‑ion suffix1.

Ƿidsiþ 09:20, 29 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for such detailed information. The thing that originally confused me about the previous version of the etymology at generation was that the Anglo-Norman etymon was listed together with the Middle French one. On Wiktionary, Anglo-Norman is an alias for Old French, so to me that looked like the Middle English term was borrowed from both Old and Middle French at the same time, which seemed like a mistake to me. I assume this isn't a problem because Anglo-Norman might also extend into Middle French, but I'm not quite sure. Anyway, do you think the current version of the etymology should be reworked? Tc14Hd (aka Marc) (talk) 13:22, 30 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

Well, Anglo-Norman refers to a specific thing – the French dialect spoken in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until about the mid-15th century. So it did overlap with Middle French on the continent. A lot of English words show evidence of constant reinforcement from continental French, which is why typically the Anglo-Norman and the continental MF are shown together. I don't really know the best way to show this, I just think that where we have sources showing the AN we should not remove it from our Etymology sections since it's more specific and more accurate than just saying "Old French". Ƿidsiþ 05:01, 1 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

You were right! m+ works way better, I did not know that was a thing. Thank you!!!♥️ Couthful (talk) 03:56, 7 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

No problem. One more tip: You can add |w=1 to {{m+}} or {{l+}} and it will give you a Wikipedia link for the language name. Tc14Hd (aka Marc) (talk) 10:21, 7 September 2026 (UTC)Reply