Talk:sometime

Why was my edit rolled back?

I added another meaning, which the Oxford English Dictionary agrees with, and it was rolled back.[1] I'm not very familiar with Wiktionary, so am quite ready to accept that there were problems with my edit. However, before making it, I looked at other pages to get an idea of the expected layout, checked carefully with preview, etc. On Wikipedia, rollback is used for vandalism. Edits that you just disagree with, or edits that may be bad but were done in good faith, are reverted with an explanation, either in the edit summary or on the talk page.

I'm not going to revert war, but I'd appreciate being told what was wrong with my edit - so wrong that it had to be rolled back like vandalism instead of just corrected If newcomers are not told what the problem is with their contributions, how do they avoid making the same mistakes? Stratford490 21:42, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

• Because we already have it - look further down the page. SemperBlotto 21:43, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Ah, okay. Thank you. Stratford490 21:46, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

that cannot be depended upon regarding affections or loyalties

He was well rid of his sometime girlfriend. --Backinstadiums (talk) 08:58, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

Adv: formerly (formal)

As in our speaker today, sometime a professor at Princeton University --Backinstadiums (talk) 19:31, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

some time: indefinite past time

The adverbs someday and sometime express future time indefinitely: We'll succeed someday. Come sometime. Let's meet sometime when your schedule permits. This sense can also be conveyed by some day/time. 
The two-word forms are always used when some is an adjective modifying and specifying a more particular day/time: Come some day (not someday) soon. Choose some day (not someday) that is not so busy.

Can "some time" refer to a past indefinite time too? https://oed.com/oed2/00230637 --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:25, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

Secondly, why is some day that is not so busy a "more particular" day but sometime when your schedule permits is not a "more particular" time, when both include relative clauses? --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:53, 26 June 2021 (UTC)