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June 2024

Please read Wiktionary:Entry layout explained, your edits doesn't comply with the guideline --Min☠︎rax^«¦talk¦» 02:52, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Please be more specific. AP295 (talk) 05:11, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

https://simple.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=specious&oldid=527403 --Min☠︎rax^«¦talk¦» 05:32, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

I will read the entry layout manual, but please tell me what you mean in particular. AP295 (talk) 05:38, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Having |en| in {{IPA}}, not using {{syn}}, having unnecessary parameters that breaks templates here. Layout is wrong here and not including the word in its definition. --Min☠︎rax^«¦talk¦» 05:44, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

If you don't mind, would you please fix the templates this time? I can follow your example in the future. It doesn't seem like the style guide requires definitions to include the word itself, though it does state that they should be "conversational", so to speak. Even so, it seems rather unnecessary for an entry entitled X to state that "X means ...". If one looks up a word X in some dictionary, the conversational equivalent is a question to the effect of "What does X mean?" Anyone would still understand your spoken reply if you were to define the word itself without first saying "X means ..." or "Something is X if it is ..." or "You are X if you ..." The latter two aren't even grammatical in E-prime, which the style guide seems to recommend. AP295 (talk) 05:57, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, I understand about the templates. Still I don't think that the style guide requires "If something is X, then ...", but I'll try to phrase definitions in a simple and direct manner. I intend to use E-prime for the most part. AP295 (talk) 09:23, 12 June 2024 (UTC)