User talk:OOfMAN99

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Apisite (talk) 22:15, 24 June 2022 (UTC)

Please be careful

You're creating some terrible entries:

• sausage link as "a way to cook a sausage" (this tells us nothing -- and is wrong -- links are the shape, not the cooking method)
• pasta yaya as a "traditional English meal", when it seems to be an American brand name or some such thing
• and this one esinahkatali suggesting that legs have a "foreskin" (that's part of a penis, not a leg).

Please be more careful. Equinox ◑ 03:40, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your response as to the foreskin on the leg thing. I simply put it into a __________ to English translator (forgot the language) and it was kind of weird for me too. I didn't really understand it but that was the translation. I will try to be more careful though. Thank you! OOfMAN99 (talk) 04:13, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

Update: I see the mistake. The actual translation is simply "foreskin". OOfMAN99 (talk) 04:20, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

You're editing languages whose names you literally can't spell right, and you're using automated translators to come up with definitions. You mean well, but you have no business adding entries in languages you don't speak. Some people can do that safely, but it requires vastly more general understanding about language and the limits of the sources than you have. I'm tempted to nuke all of your entries and block you, along with all your other accounts. I spend a lot of time getting rid of vandalism, but this is even worse: when someone adds "pooop" to an entry, it's obvious what it is. When you make a mistake in a language like Chickasaw, it takes someone who knows the language to spot the error- and we may not have anyone. Even if we do, they have to spend time cleaning up after you instead of adding real content.

I took an American Indian Languages class from someone who has since written a Chickasaw dictionary, and I have a copy of that dictionary- but I've never added Chickasaw entries. American Indian languages are completely different from English, with all kinds of strange particles, prefixes, suffixes, infixes and circumfixes, as well as grammatical categories and structures that are totally alien to anything related to English. There are a million ways you can go horribly, horribly wrong. Similar things can be said about many of the other languages you've been editing. Please stop! Chuck Entz (talk) 05:35, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

I totally get where you are coming from. I can speak Spanish, Russian, and Choctaw. I first started editing Wiktionary for the Choctaw language since i knew there weren't many speakers of it and because I had learned it from family down in Durant, OK. So i added a bunch of Choctaw words. I do believe all if not most of them are correct, minus the alternatives. I would love it if you were able to keep those, or at least submit them for review, since I know Choctaw is a practically extinct language and it would be a while to find someone to add some of those. I am also curious of what you mean by "other accounts". Do you mean the accounts of my other wikis (Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikispecies)? I totally understand this action and i actually thank you for helping to clear out the biggest dictionary in the world. OOfMAN99 (talk) 09:07, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

There is someone who keeps creating accounts with Minecraft-themed names like yours and doing tons of edits in a wide variety of minor languages very much like you've been doing. They keep getting globally locked due to association with someone in the same area (perhaps the same person using different accounts for plausible deniability) who keeps doing vandalism. Because the accounts keep getting blocked before I can communicate with them, followed by new accounts making the same bad choices, I had hoped I was ahead of the curve this time.

As a checkuser, I can determine what IP address your account is using and some details about the device it's using for each edit. Your account isn't doing anything that would justify running a check, so I can only guess whether you're the person I mentioned. I do know a good bit about them by virtue of their showing up in checks on vandal accounts, but for privacy reasons I'm not going to discuss the details. If you're that person and I end up running a check on vandalism by someone in your IP ranges, I'll probably find out eventually, anyway. Chuck Entz (talk) 17:14, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

I swear I am not that person, you can check too, my account has been around for months. OOfMAN99 (talk) 17:18, 25 June 2022 (UTC)