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Edit on the Gilmith page
Thank you for your interest in Tolkien Gateway and for trying to help to improve the content on Tolkien Gateway. I checked your edit on the Gilmith page and noticed that you made some errors in your edit and that you did not include a reference that supports the statements that you made. I already corrected those problems on the Gilmith page and also changed the existing references to be more precise to make it easier for readers to find the information in the sources in the references. To speak at bit like Treebeard, I advise you not to be so "hasty" in the future and to use the preview function to check whether there are any errors and whether all the statements that you added are supported by a reference. You misspelled Gilmith as Gimlith (probably a typo) at the beginning of the etymology section. In addition you used capitalized versions of pages for the Sindarin words gil and mith, which have uncapitalized page names (but the links to those pages worked anyhow). Furthermore you only used the code for italics for the alternative text in the links instead of using italics outside the links (which is usually done, but your method creates the same result). The most important problem is that you did not include a reference that supports your statement that Gilmith is probably a Sindarin name and that it probably consists of the compounds gil ("star") and mith ("grey"). We ususually first check publications, which were written by J.R.R. Tolkien or his son Christopher Tolkien if they ever wrote anything about which language a name is in, if they ever provided the meaning of the name in english and if they ever provided the components of the name. Many entries in etymology sections on Tolkien Gateway use an entry in eldamo.org as a reference, which is a high quality dictionary for names/words in Sindarin (or Quenya, etc.) and which in turn discloses which publications written by J.R.R. Tolkien or others it uses as a reference for its translations. Furthermore you did not provide a translation for the name, although eldamo.org does provide a probable translation "Grey Star". I hope that this feedback helps you with future edits. Akhôrahil (talk) 08:15, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you very much. I understand my errors entirely and I will try to not move too hastily through edits. There is one thing I am confused about though, and that is italics in links. I am not sure what you meant by having italics outside the link. Anyways, thank you again for helping me with some amateur errors, and I have already bookmarked eldamo.org. QuickbeamTheGreen (talk) 03:38, 19 March 2024 (UTC)