Lammengollon
Joined 22 June 2021
Latest comment: 1 year ago by Chiswick Chap in topic Welcome!
Welcome! edit
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- By the way, both the Sindarin and the Quenya articles need better sourcing (it's more than likely that much of the text is closely adapted from Parma Eldalamberon), the removal of unsourced editorial comments, and the tagging of bits of text in either language using {{lang|qya|.....}} or {{lang|sjn|.....}} as appropriate (and we can then remove the tags at the tops of those articles). If any of that appeals to you, it'd be much appreciated. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:25, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for the welcome! You are right, those articles need some attention, especially the Sindarin one was worse than I thought. I don’t know when I will have time to tackle this, at the moment I’m working on getting the German Wikipedia’s article on Sindarin to an acceptable standard, but I have put both those and most other articles on Tolkien’s languages on my watchlist to at least ensure they are not getting any worse.
- Also, as I have you here already, what is the English Wikipedia’s policy on quotation marks, do you use straight quotes "..." or typographical quotes “...”. On the German Wikipedia everyone will freak out completely, but here I have only encountered the straight ones so far? Lammengollon (talk) 13:08, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
- By the way, both the Sindarin and the Quenya articles need better sourcing (it's more than likely that much of the text is closely adapted from Parma Eldalamberon), the removal of unsourced editorial comments, and the tagging of bits of text in either language using {{lang|qya|.....}} or {{lang|sjn|.....}} as appropriate (and we can then remove the tags at the tops of those articles). If any of that appeals to you, it'd be much appreciated. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:25, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
- Straight is right! Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:06, 13 July 2022 (UTC)