User talk:JacobAronson

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Happy editing! --Macrakis (talk) 13:10, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your contribution of "Hunger makes people resourceful" to the list of proverbs. I've removed it, because it's extremely rare, even historically. Our goal isn't to list every phrase that has ever been used once as a proverb! Thanks,

--Macrakis (talk) 13:10, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Good question about "moderately different proverbs". I think it's best to group related proverbs under the most common version. See for example how we handle Straw that broke the camel's back (most of which I wrote). It is not useful to include a long list of versions in other languages, though it can be useful to mention different ways of expressing the same concept.

If there is not an article about a family of proverbs, you might want to start one (if there's enough to say).

I don't think there's anything wrong with adding proverbs to the list of proverbs, but I would avoid proverbs or variants that are rare or unfamiliar to most English speakers, e.g., The hunter does not rub himself in oil and lie by the fire to sleep, though Until lions have their own historians, accounts of the hunt will always celebrate the hunter could be covered under "History is written by the victors" (but we don't have such an article).

For Talk conversations, I'm afraid there are multiple conventions. As you say, it's more likely that you'll catch your correspondent's attention if you post on their page, though you can also use Template:Ping (e.g., {{ping|Macrakis}}) both on Talk pages and on article discussion pages to notify people. --Macrakis (talk) 16:42, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]