Define talk:Aforehaund
Latest comment: 3 years ago by MJL in topic Purpose?
Purpose? eedit
What's the purpose of this page? Wikipedia isn't a dictionary, and this is already covered in Wiktionary. my_hat_stinks (tauk) 23:01, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- @My hat stinks: Wikipedia:Define namespace –MJL ‐Tauk‐☖ 23:05, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- Not sure what happened there. My bad. Edit conflict maybe. Anyway I was trying to say what MJL has probably covered, and that there is a channel on discord about it. soothrhins (tauk) 23:08, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- None of that really answers my question. A site for Scots speakers does not need pages translating words into English. It's a huge waste of effort; literally just a duplicate of en.wiktionary. If you want to actually write definitions in Scots, there's a Scots wiktionary on incubator that you are more than welcome to contribute to. An encyclopedia is not the place for a dictionary. my_hat_stinks (tauk) 23:11, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- If I understood correctly, that's part of what needs fixed. Not just incorrect words like this, but the definitions into Scots too. But there are data reasons that we have been told makes the feature unique, "innovative" and good. But I don't have the knowledge to set out how/why I'm afraid. soothrhins (tauk) 23:15, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- It's not supposed to translate words into English. It's supposed to translate them into Scots. –MJL ‐Tauk‐☖ 23:19, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- None of that really answers my question. A site for Scots speakers does not need pages translating words into English. It's a huge waste of effort; literally just a duplicate of en.wiktionary. If you want to actually write definitions in Scots, there's a Scots wiktionary on incubator that you are more than welcome to contribute to. An encyclopedia is not the place for a dictionary. my_hat_stinks (tauk) 23:11, 2 September 2020 (UTC)