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I'm all in favour of more automation but I fear a simple "s"-detection won't do the trick. There are just too many words that are plural by themselves like steel, cloth, chemfuel etc. Or rather their plural has a different meaning. Maintaining a list of such words would be a pain. --[[User:Ickputzdirwech|Ickputzdirwech]] ([[User talk:Ickputzdirwech|talk]]) 00:12, 18 September 2022 (UTC) | I'm all in favour of more automation but I fear a simple "s"-detection won't do the trick. There are just too many words that are plural by themselves like steel, cloth, chemfuel etc. Or rather their plural has a different meaning. Maintaining a list of such words would be a pain. --[[User:Ickputzdirwech|Ickputzdirwech]] ([[User talk:Ickputzdirwech|talk]]) 00:12, 18 September 2022 (UTC) | ||
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| + | :[[User:Harakoni|@Harakoni]] I changed my mind and implemented your suggestion and also started a list of nouns that are usually used as uncountable nouns on this wiki. That still needs some major expansion however. I would imagine, that as soon as someone uses this template in another (automated) template, one would get an overview of the words that need to be adden. --[[User:Ickputzdirwech|Ickputzdirwech]] ([[User talk:Ickputzdirwech|talk]]) 10:32, 28 October 2022 (UTC) | ||
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Smarter plural[edit]
I'm all in favour of more automation but I fear a simple "s"-detection won't do the trick. There are just too many words that are plural by themselves like steel, cloth, chemfuel etc. Or rather their plural has a different meaning. Maintaining a list of such words would be a pain. --Ickputzdirwech (talk) 00:12, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
- @Harakoni I changed my mind and implemented your suggestion and also started a list of nouns that are usually used as uncountable nouns on this wiki. That still needs some major expansion however. I would imagine, that as soon as someone uses this template in another (automated) template, one would get an overview of the words that need to be adden. --Ickputzdirwech (talk) 10:32, 28 October 2022 (UTC)