Wikipedia talk:Stress marks in East Slavic words/Archives/ 1

Helpful and Harmless
I find stress marks helpful and harmless. I've been using Wiktionary to help learn Russian for a few months now (that's mostly what it's used for, right?). I eventually guessed that stress marks were non-standard and Googling to confirm that led me to this essay. The suggested footnote would help shorten this trail of discovery. Not having learned IPA in elementary school, it's a hell of a lot easier to read полоте́нце than pəɫɐˈtʲent͡sə. This essay presents an interesting opinion but it would be much more interesting if it included the counter-arguments from Taurus's "new essay". I would appeal to Mr. Novikoff to adopt a pragmatic rather than dogmatic approach. DenisHowe (talk) 21:31, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for being interested. You are already taking a right approach in learning Russian, which is to use Wiktionary along with Wikipedia. To conclude this, just see a policy that says what Wikipedia is not: not a dictionary.As for Taurus, I'm sorry to inform you that his account is indefinitely locked in all the Wikimedia projects, the last drop being his attitude to this very issue. See this discussion and this if you want to know more. (And perhaps I should configure a bot to archive the old flood on this talk page.)
 * Thanks for your reply and your kind words re FOLDOC.
 * Sure, wikIPEDIA isn't a dictionary but I use wikTIONARY, which is. Removing stress marks would be unnecessary, unhelpful and harmful, like going through a paper dictionary and tippexing them out, but, hey, who am I to argue, I just use the thing. DenisHowe (talk) 10:28, 21 May 2022 (UTC)