User talk:Mahir256

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Bot help

Can you please help me with the lexemes? I need to change the code languages ​​from mis-x... to the appropriate code languages:

• mis-x-Q134706150 yai-latn, mis-x-Q134706143 yai-cyrl
• mis-x-Q135196768 sgh-latn, mis-x-Q135196765 sgh-cyrl, mis-x-Q135196767 sgh-arab
• mis-x-Q135183554 wbl-latn, mis-x-Q135183505 wbl-cyrl, mis-x-Q135183640 wbl-arab
• mis-x-Q135415037 yah-latn, mis-x-Q135415035 yah-cyrl
• mis-x-Q135415262 isk-latn, mis-x-Q135415260 isk-cyrl

- Rumsor (talk) 10:52, 17 January 2026 (UTC)

Help with P14108

Hi @Mahir256,

Thank you for your edit on padelleboog (L1552520), I was wondering how you got the ID from woordenlijst.org? I can't find it.

JhowieNitnek (talk) 15:49, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

@JhowieNitnek: I just added instructions to the talk page of that property. (I'm compiling a list of entries from that website that I plan to add to Mishramilan (মিশ্রমিলন) soon.) Mahir256 (talk) 15:58, 23 January 2026 (UTC)

MixnMatch issues

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P14003 https://mix-n-match.toolforge.org/#/catalog/7291

There is a rather large disparency between the items matched and the items actually being matched on Wikidata.

Same for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13967 and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P13974

Any help? Trade (talk) 23:15, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

@Trade: Have you tried going to the "Manually sync catalog" entry in the "Action" menu and clicking "Update Wikidata"? Mahir256 (talk) 23:16, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

It's not my catalog and the catalog creator have been unresponsive so far Trade (talk) 23:31, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

@Trade: So? I don't have to have created the catalog to sync it; I've done this with (if I remember correctly) the Omni topic ID catalog (which Josve05a created and I merely updated). Mahir256 (talk) 23:33, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Oh, that simple? Surprised it's not automatic Trade (talk) 23:37, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

I tried to do as you said but the batch is stuck in "INIT" Trade (talk) 23:40, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

@Trade: Then that would be QuickStatements being slow, I guess; the batches look fine otherwise, so maybe wait a bit. Mahir256 (talk) 23:41, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Help with property proposal

Hi @Mahir256,

I recently came across the useful dictionaries of the Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (Q2242095) and noticed that only a few of them have dedicated properties (etymologiebank.nl ID (P12360), Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal GTB ID (P9158), Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek GTB ID (P5939), Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek GTB ID (P5938), Oudnederlands Woordenboek GTB ID (P5937) and Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal GTB ID (P11942)).

To address this, I have been proposing properties for the other dictionaries, but I am currently stuck on Vertaal­woordenschat (Q137916170), a translation dictionary between Dutch and Arabic, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Modern Greek, and Portuguese (in both directions). Could you help me set up the proposal(s)?

JhowieNitnek (talk) 00:51, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

@JhowieNitnek: I would not recommend adding properties for these dictionaries in the first place. (With some exceptions proposed by a now-locked user, the existing dictionary properties going between two languages were added to define words from a generally lower-resourced language into a generally higher-resourced one.) Mahir256 (talk) 20:30, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

@Mahir256 thank you for your reply but I don't think I am following? Why don't you recommend adding properties for these dictionaries in the first place?

JhowieNitnek (talk) 20:40, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

@JhowieNitnek: I am reminded of the experience of an individual who created numerous dictionary proposals going from English to another language simply because it was possible to do so; some of those proposals were rejected and some of which were created but remain largely unused. Those don't add much to English entries beyond just another number (especially when there are already other good references like the OED and Merriam-Webster that may be pointed to on English lexemes), and I fear the dictionary site you're asking about is similar in that respect (since for Dutch lexemes you already have the WNT, woordenlijst, and perhaps soon the ANW which are other good references that may be pointed to). Mahir256 (talk) 20:45, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

@Mahir256 I understand, thank you. I think you are right then. Best not to propose these properties. JhowieNitnek (talk) 20:48, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Wiktionary as a reference

Howdy! I'm sure there is some policy/guideline that I have missed for doing such a thing on laŭ. Can you point me in the right direction, so I know what I should/should not do? TranqyPoo (talk) 23:56, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

@TranqyPoo: From Help:Sources#Different_types_of_sources: "Please note that while pages on Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia sites) can and should be added as sitelinks, they are not appropriate as sources for Wikidata statements. As per the Wikipedia policy on verifiability, the content of articles in Wikipedia must be verifiable; it should be supported by sources also (in the form of citations). However, just because something is stated on a Wikipedia page, does not mean that it is acceptable to consider the Wikipedia page itself as a source; it's much better to locate the actual citation and use that instead." Mahir256 (talk) For the purposes of lexemes, substituting "Wikipedia" with "Wiktionary" in the quoted sentences would be appropriate when considering lexemes. 23:57, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

বানান নিয়ম

আপনি দেখলাম L1556056 অপসারণ করেছেন 'বানান নিয়ম অনুসারে অপ্রয়োজনীয়' বলে। কিন্তু উইকিঅভিধানে তো ওই নাম ভুক্তি রয়েছে। তবে কি উইকিউপাত্তে এই বিষয়ে কোনো বিশেষ নীতিমালা রয়েছে? ধন্যবাদ। Redmin (talk) 16:56, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

@Redmin: এখানে দেখতে পারেন; চেষ্টা করছি যে প্রকাশিত বাংলা বানান নিয়ম অনুসারে লেমা ও শব্দরূপ লেখা হোক—এবং একাডেমি ও আকাদেমি দুটিই 'রং' লিখে। (হৃদয়ঙ্গম/হৃদয়ংগম (L308189) এরকম করে নিয়মের তুলনা দেখানো যায়।) Mahir256 (talk) 17:02, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

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Lexeme:L1557131

Is the reason "not the most important lexeme in this language" exactly the right reason to delete a lexeme of the capital of the country where all native speakers live? Таёжный лес (talk) 11:51, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

@Таёжный лес: The problem is more so where this, the third lexeme ever created in this language, is merely a direct unchanged proper noun borrowing from Russian. There is already a Russian lexeme for the city, of which you are aware; that has been left alone, and simply duplicating it for all languages doesn't really help those languages much, especially (in this case) when there are likely so many other more relevant words to the average Alyutor speaker that don't have lexemes yet (and when most Alyutor speakers don't live in Moscow). Perhaps you can try creating lexemes in this language for concepts that frequently appear across languages instead. Mahir256 (talk) 12:02, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Is this definitely matter? It's a word, which exists in the language (see wikt:Москва#Alutor, and the entry isn't empty — it contains non-trivial information about the word stem (Москва- instead of the original Москв-). Please, restore it. I can even add more linguistical information (such as declension). Таёжный лес (talk) 12:08, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

@Таёжный лес: I'll restore it if you can both add a sense with an item link pointing to the item for the city (in the same way that the Russian lexeme does) and also add the quotation and citation from the Wiktionary page you link to the lexeme as a usage example (P5831) (so that we on Wikidata know it has an existence outside of Wikimedia projects). Mahir256 (talk) 12:13, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Okay, I'll do it. Таёжный лес (talk) 12:17, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

@Таёжный лес: Ok, please make haste with those improvements. Mahir256 (talk) 12:20, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

I have implemented your suggestions. Is there anything else I should add? Таёжный лес (talk) 12:39, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

@Таёжный лес: No I think you've done enough for now on the lexeme; thank you! Maybe add some sources to the noun class item that the lexeme is pointing to? (What off-wiki books/references define the noun classes in this language?) Mahir256 (talk) 12:44, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Did i made it right? Таёжный лес (talk) 13:08, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

@Таёжный лес: That's enough of a start, thank you! Mahir256 (talk) 13:10, 28 February 2026 (UTC)