| | You created a large number of entries for German compound words recently. Please note that in German, compound words are used very frequently but as far as I understand the consensus has been so far that not every compound word meets the criteria for inclusion (this is how all German dictionaries handle it, otherwise there would be an exponential explosion of entries because you can build new compound words from almost any components). For example [[Ernährungssicherung]] ("food security") has no additional meaning that cannot be derived from the components and therefore should not have an entry as well as the English word "food security" does not meet the criteria for inclusion. --[[User:Zeitlupe|Zeitlupe]] ([[User talk:Zeitlupe|talk]]) 08:43, 31 January 2013 (UTC) | | You created a large number of entries for German compound words recently. Please note that in German, compound words are used very frequently but as far as I understand the consensus has been so far that not every compound word meets the criteria for inclusion (this is how all German dictionaries handle it, otherwise there would be an exponential explosion of entries because you can build new compound words from almost any components). For example [[Ernährungssicherung]] ("food security") has no additional meaning that cannot be derived from the components and therefore should not have an entry as well as the English word "food security" does not meet the criteria for inclusion. --[[User:Zeitlupe|Zeitlupe]] ([[User talk:Zeitlupe|talk]]) 08:43, 31 January 2013 (UTC) |
| | + | *I only add words that I come across in the real world (well, German Wikipedia). Our criteria is very different from other dictionaries - "all words in all languages". But, even so, I don't add all the compound words that I see - only the ones that have some sort of extra meaning, or that seem to be very frequent. [[User:SemperBlotto|SemperBlotto]] ([[User talk:SemperBlotto|talk]]) 09:25, 31 January 2013 (UTC) |
