User talk:Weylaway

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Ultimateria (talk) 16:43, 28 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

Coming by to say thank you for translating all these usage examples. Keep up the good work! PUC – 13:59, 30 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

No problem. Weylaway (talk) 18:38, 1 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Yes, good work, I'd just like to point out that it's nonstandard to include 2 translations using a ⟨br⟩ tag. It's better to just pick one translation. If you really need to add more content, there's also the |footer= parameter. Jberkel 23:34, 9 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Okay, I'll avoid doing that. Weylaway (talk) 15:13, 10 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for catching those few sloppy copy-and-paste errors I made while I was rushing to work through my to-do list of articles to create :) . · • SUM1 • · (talk) 05:14, 25 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Greetings Weylaway,

Should we classify this entry as a noun or a proper noun? newfiles (talk) 22:08, 7 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

I'd say a noun - "Buck Rogers" is a proper noun, but it's a premodifier inside a larger noun phrase. And "Buck Rogers time" doesn't refer to one specific entity. Weylaway (talk) 22:42, 7 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Sounds good, thank you. newfiles (talk) 22:47, 7 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Greetings Weylaway,

Would you consider these two terms to be SoP? Cambridge dic. has an entry for "starting time".

Thank you. newfiles (talk) 19:09, 9 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello, I'm not an expert on the CFI but in my opinion they are both probably SOP and I wouldn't create them myself. However there is apparently a "lemming test" where a term can be included if it is in another dictionary despite being SOP. I guess ultimately it's for RFD to decide, if they are taken there. Weylaway (talk) 23:27, 9 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you kindly. newfiles (talk) 23:28, 9 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

How do you feel about this term? Too SoPish? Should I create it? There's a citations page that was created in 2022: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:magic_moment newfiles (talk) 20:19, 15 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

In the tech/marketing jargon sense that the quotes suggest I'd say it probably isn't SOP. Weylaway (talk) 20:36, 16 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thank you. newfiles (talk) 20:58, 16 May 2024 (UTC)Reply