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Hello,

Welcome to Wikipedia. I hope this doesn't come across as too suspicious, but... are you a new editor, or an alternate of an existing editor's account? Also, can I ask what the intent / use of this maintenance category for glossaries you've created is? It's just rather unusual for new editors to dive into maintenance categories, a rather obscure corner of Wikipedia... SnowFire (talk) 00:00, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@SnowFire: I am not new to Wikipedia, but I would like to keep this account separate from my main because I'm planning to associate it with my real-world identity, but would prefer to maintain anonymity on my main. I think this falls within WP:VALIDALT, but if it doesn't, I'll be happy to stop using this account altogether.

The main reason I wanted to categorise glossaries by format was that it would make it possible to automatically process glossaries into a machine-readable format, something I'm interested in for personal projects, specifically generating Anki decks. I also think it will be useful for identifying the many poorly formatted glossaries to fix them (in the process of identifying <dl> glossaries I've already done this for glossary of sake terms, for example.) Afkirby (talk) 01:07, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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