User talk:ScratchMarshall

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Again, welcome! Wyang (talk) 12:54, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Categories

If you find yourself creating a page with no categories you need to stop and review your entry, since it is certainly missing something (vampirina). DTLHS (talk) 03:08, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

Citations

Please see Use–mention distinction. Citations that mention a word and then immediately define it are mentions, which do not count towards attestation. DTLHS (talk) 03:31, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

"Sum of parts"

Hi. Thanks for improving or adding entries for so many recently-in-the-news words. However, please note that some of the entries you've created have been pretty straightforward "sum of parts" phrases, like individual racism (which seems to be covered by individial + racism, like "individual bias" or "individual preference") and fake family unit (fake + family unit, like "fake motorcycle licence"). We don't generally include those. (Also, for the difference "penetrate..." vs "envelope..." senses of "stealth", I think it's probably better to just combine them into "have sex with...", but that's probably more subjective / debatable.) - -sche (discuss) 19:46, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Related terms

This is for words that are related in their etymology, like horror and horrible -- not just words on a similar theme. (For those, you might be able to use coordinate terms, hypernyms/hyponyms, see also, etc. It depends.) Equinox ◑ 20:39, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

wikistorm

I've sent this to RFV, so we can see whether the word is attested to the standards required around here. One of the important bits is that we need cites from durably archived sources, like Google Books, Usenet (accessible through Google Groups), or anything that's been published in physical form, like books or magazines. It looks like the cites that you put in the entry are all to online-only news sources and websites. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 21:31, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

misdemeanourous

Best to be careful with these. I only see one hit for that spelling in Google Books and it's not clear that it's a standard spelling rather than an error. Note that spellings like "rigourous" are wrong even in British English. Equinox ◑ 20:15, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

• @Equinox yeah I initially made a mistake in typing it out I think. On 2nd glance I couldn't even find it in 1 book and only in 2 comments left on websites. Do recurring typos just get redirected? ScratchMarshall (talk) 20:25, 11 July 2018 (UTC)