Ioaxxere

good work

stealing my entries I see! seriously though, you’re one of the best editors I’ve seen around Nervelita (talk) 00:08, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you very much, let me know if you ever need help on an entry (as I see you're a new-ish editor) Ioaxxere (talk) 00:11, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, I’m getting around well for the most part :)

Nervelita (talk) 00:15, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Apisite (talk) 10:40, 4 August 2022 (UTC)

good!

Thanks for your contributions. Including improving some of my stubs like googan. Equinox ◑ 02:43, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

No problem. I get anxious when I see definitions without citations, because as I see it it's far too easy to add fake or misleading definitions to the site (not that I think you would do that, of course).

Ioaxxere (talk) 02:49, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

I add citations to the strange ones that look like they might suffer at RFV otherwise. I can't cite every damn thing because my primary mission here is to add missing words, and 80% of them are pretty much obvious (like the un-, non- and -like). Hmm... some maxim about quality and quantity... anyway. Equinox ◑ 03:36, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

manavilins, manavelins

One was "odds and ends" (i.e. junk) and the other was "broken victuals" i.e. food leftovers. Maybe more work is needed. Equinox ◑ 15:09, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

MW has manavilins listed as an alternative form. Ioaxxere (talk) 15:19, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

perpetual motion

Hi. Usage notes should be about usage of the word, not encyclopaedic stuff about the topic, or referent. So (made-up examples!) "elephants are called squizzles in Jamaica", but not "elephants have big ears". Equinox ◑ 20:05, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

I know that, the usage note is explaining that perpetual motion isn't being used in the literal sense of something moving forever, instead usually referring to a perpetual motion machine which produces useful work. Maybe the note can be clarified. Ioaxxere (talk) 20:31, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

"elephants have big ears" is a perfectly fine usage example. GreyishWorm (talk) 22:14, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Re: Adding entries for your citations pages

Honestly, I'd really prefer to start creating these pages myself now that you've reminded me. The only reason I hadn't done anything with Citations:DOTP yet was because I wasn't 100% sure which capitalization to use for the lemma form. Binarystep (talk) 03:41, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

Sounds good. Thanks for getting around to DOTP Ioaxxere (talk) 04:50, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

enginerd

I could be wrong, but the Top Gear cite you added looks more like engine + nerd than engineer + nerd. Chuck Entz (talk) 21:43, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

@Chuck Entz I've separated it into two senses, does it look good now? Ioaxxere (talk) 19:22, 27 November 2022 (UTC)

Initialisms are synonyms

You can replace one with another in the sentence. They are not "the exact same term" as they are spelled differently and not the same length. Putting initialisms as synonyms on Wiktionary is standard practice in my experience. Equinox ◑ 21:15, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Do you consider "color" and "colour" to be synonyms? If not, then your definition of "synonym" is flawed. Ioaxxere (talk) 22:45, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Babel

Do you think you could add {{Babel}} to your user page? It is not mandatory, just useful. Or making it no longer redlinked by saying "Hi" would also be nice since redlinks look like something is wrong. (By the way, here comes the obligatory, thank you for all your contributions, which I mean sincerely, having seen your efforts.) Dan Polansky (talk) 12:11, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Maybe one day... Ioaxxere (talk) 15:27, 1 February 2023 (UTC)

Admin

Hi. Wonderfool here. Just thought you might be interested in becoming an admin. I could set up a vote for you if you like Celui qui crée ébauches de football anglais (talk) 21:19, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Yes please. The ability to delete pages would be very convenient and I have a pretty good understanding of our procedures at this point. Ioaxxere (talk) 22:31, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Awesome. Please accept at Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2023-02/User:Ioaxxere for admin. You might want to put some bullshit on your userpage, as it matters to some users. Celui qui crée ébauches de football anglais (talk) 22:36, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Hi. Wonderfool here again. Perhaps the nomination was too early, after all. I apologize if the result caused you any grief, that was not my intention (although to be fair, on other occasions I do like causing grief to users) Mr. Turbo Lexicographer (talk) 14:39, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

I wasn't expecting that either. It seems like people are voting "No" out of spite (although your nominations have done well in the past, not sure what's changed) Ioaxxere (talk) 15:40, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, I've definitely got the title of having started the highest number of successful admin votes (I counted a couple of years ago). OTOH, I probably also hold the title for highest number of unsuccessful admin vote (I didn't count). Perhaps I got too obsessed with my own personal statistics and wasn't focusing on general Wiktionary quality enough. Mr. Turbo Lexicographer (talk) 20:13, 8 February 2023 (UTC)

RFV failed

Hey, thanks for your work keeping track of RFVs. Just wanted to drop a note that when you're failing an RFV for an entry that only has the RFV'd language, I think it's better to just add fail=1 in the {{rfv}} template because it will flag the entry for deletion—if you only add {{no entry}} then it won't be listed for deletion and it implies we want to keep the page around as an empty entry for whatever reason. I've added it here. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 14:09, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

@Al-Muqanna Yes, I did add fail=1 in the past, but it seems like the entries never actually get deleted (Category:Candidates for speedy deletion has dozens of RFV fails at this point). This is the closest I can get to deleting the page myself. Ioaxxere (talk) 18:13, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

From experience so far it can take a week or two for an admin to get round to it, but {{no entry}} isn't a substitute for deletion and if you want to clear the entry in the meantime you can just do both. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 18:44, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

Alright, that looks like a good solution. Ioaxxere (talk) 19:25, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

cissexual

You failed the RFV saying that "two tweets don't mean much". Clearly you didn't look at the references I added to the second sense. There's no good reason for having redacted the second sense.