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Just a casual Wiktionarian.
I created this user page just so that my username no longer shows up as red.
Personal guidelines
[edit]- Quotes used and words created do not imply endorsement of any ideology.
- My primary language is English.
- I may occasionally add etymologies or create pages for non-English terms, but these are either documented or self-evident.
- Find a word that needs quotes.
- Search the word in quotation marks on Google.
- If the word is in major dictionaries, but you need a use, search the word with the
site: parameter to specify a site to look through.
- Use a quote template like this
2000 July 1, <author>, “<title>”, in <website>[<url>]:<passage>
- For this template, dates are in the YYYY-MM-DD format.
Good sites for quotes
[edit]- New York Times (nytimes.com)
- For American spellings
- Has an aggressive paywall, so use the Wayback Machine (for articles before 2025) or archive.ph to bypass it.
- CNN (cnn.com)
- For American spellings
- No paywall
- BBC (bbc.com)
- For British spellings
- No paywall
- The Guardian (theguardian.com)
- For British spellings
- No paywall
- Dexerto (dexerto.com)
- For video game-related terms.
- No paywall
- Other gaming websites also work.
- Scientific American (scientificamerican.com)
- For scientific terms as well as animal species.
- Aggressive paywall
- Google Books (books.google.com)
- Works in the public domain.
- Copyright law varies by country, make sure the material is public domain in your home country.
- While quotes from copyrighted material can be used via fair use, it's best not to include more text than is necessary.
- BBC Pidgin (bbc.com/pidgin)
- CNN en Español (cnnespanol.cnn.com)
- El País (elpais.com)
