User talk:Sagotreespirit

Eastern Brazil stuff

Your wordlists over in Eastern Brazil contained numerous copying errors. I've had to go through manually and check every single one of the words you inputted. Please try to pay more attention to detail when adding such things to articles. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 20:01, 20 August 2026 (UTC)

Oh, and, I've deleted all of Loukotka's highly outdated and unreliable wordlists. He absolutely butchers some words (e.g. Mochica: xllang 'sun', where ⟨xll⟩ is a voiceless lateral, as "sheang"). Also, his transcription can be easily converted into IPA, which would make it look a lot better if his wordlists were usable. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 20:22, 20 August 2026 (UTC)

@Kepler-1229b: If you insist on doing so, then please see if you can move the lists over to Wiktionary rather than outright removing everything. — Sagotreespirit (^talk) 23:29, 20 August 2026 (UTC)

@Kepler-1229b: Loukotka can be removed for well documented language families such as Arawakan and Cariban. However, it's definitely worth keeping Loukotka's lists for the smaller, lesser-known language families, which often have hardly any data. — Sagotreespirit (^talk) 23:35, 20 August 2026 (UTC)

I disagree. We can just use the wordlists in the sources he cites, such that they are not distorted by poor-quality retranscriptions. I can compile the original lists for the extinct and poorly documented languages, such as Pataxó language. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 00:48, 21 August 2026 (UTC)

And I won't be polluting Wiktionary with poor-quality data tantamount to misinformation in the most extreme cases. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 00:49, 21 August 2026 (UTC)

@Kepler-1229b: Well thanks for fixing the word lists. I'm fine with keeping everything as is. — Sagotreespirit (^talk) 02:27, 22 August 2026 (UTC)

Alright then. I hope your next wordlists will be free of errors. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 02:28, 22 August 2026 (UTC)

That was years ago when I was regrettably not nearly as meticulous at times. I have gained a lot of experience with accurately copying wordlists since then. Take care. — Sagotreespirit (^talk) 02:31, 22 August 2026 (UTC)

Just a quick tip; I recommend using reference templates to ease editing the references. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 02:32, 22 August 2026 (UTC)

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