User talk:Jane Elderfield
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Welcome[edit]
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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! I think it would be prudent that you take a look at WT:ELE to get a feel for how things operate around here, especially in regards to formatting. Thanks! Medellia 07:11, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
Quotations[edit]
Thank you for adding another quotation to the disbud entry. However, per the style guide at Wiktionary:Quotations (WT:QUOTE) we do not put quotation marks around the actual quote as we use the indentation to mark a quote as such. If quotation marks are in the source, for example if the sentence you are quoting is the speech of a character in the book, then we use the same style of quotation marks as the source (see glad rags as an example). Thryduulf 08:24, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Please note that I requested a cleanup for staple due o your edits. I think they are useful, but they are also confusing. Maybe you want to take another look at it.
P.S. How about you write a little about yourself on your user page. Or at least include a {{Babel}} template! H. (talk) 11:08, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Hi there. You have added a verb definition to the noun section. You really do need to study those welcome links. SemperBlotto 16:25, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for contributing the verb sense. Please note, however, that you added the Verb section in an incorrect location (I have corrected this). The definition sections should always be placed ahead of any categories or interwikis. --EncycloPetey 01:48, 27 August 2008 (UTC)