| | :: Can you find an example where either of those hold true? I don't think I've ever seen a case of an unlinked translation where <nowiki>{{t|foo|barrrrrr}}</nowiki> wasn't what the editor intended. Additionally, I think equating technical ineptitude with linguistic ineptitude is ridiculous ("they don't know what they're doing"). —[[User:Metaknowledge|Μετάknowledge]]<small><sup>''[[User talk:Metaknowledge|discuss]]/[[Special:Contributions/Metaknowledge|deeds]]''</sup></small> 15:24, 4 November 2012 (UTC) | | :: Can you find an example where either of those hold true? I don't think I've ever seen a case of an unlinked translation where <nowiki>{{t|foo|barrrrrr}}</nowiki> wasn't what the editor intended. Additionally, I think equating technical ineptitude with linguistic ineptitude is ridiculous ("they don't know what they're doing"). —[[User:Metaknowledge|Μετάknowledge]]<small><sup>''[[User talk:Metaknowledge|discuss]]/[[Special:Contributions/Metaknowledge|deeds]]''</sup></small> 15:24, 4 November 2012 (UTC) |
| | ::: Re: "I think equating technical ineptitude with linguistic ineptitude is ridiculous": Then it's a good thing I didn't. ;-) All I mean is, someone who doesn't understand even the basics of wiki-editing is very likely to miss important things, such as gender, (non)-capitalization, and the use of separate translations-tables for separate senses. —[[User: Ruakh |Ruakh]]<sub ><small ><i >[[User talk: Ruakh |TALK]]</i ></small ></sub > 15:40, 4 November 2012 (UTC) | | ::: Re: "I think equating technical ineptitude with linguistic ineptitude is ridiculous": Then it's a good thing I didn't. ;-) All I mean is, someone who doesn't understand even the basics of wiki-editing is very likely to miss important things, such as gender, (non)-capitalization, and the use of separate translations-tables for separate senses. —[[User: Ruakh |Ruakh]]<sub ><small ><i >[[User talk: Ruakh |TALK]]</i ></small ></sub > 15:40, 4 November 2012 (UTC) |
| | + | :::: Re: very likely. Um, evidence? Because the evidence I'm seeing is showing the opposite. I the case of neptunium my best guess is the editor was trying to avoid writing '''neptunium''' because of the automatic black link. [[User:Mglovesfun|Mglovesfun]] ([[User talk:Mglovesfun|talk]]) 15:43, 4 November 2012 (UTC) |
