Twice I've edited the definition of the word 雞肉 from "chicken" to "chicken (meat)". Both times I submitted the change as a correction. Both times my new definition appeared in the list of my custom definitions under "my words" for a little while, but then disappeared. If I study 雞肉 in Scratchpad now, it offers the definition "chicken".

I have two questions:

1. If my submission for correction gets rejected, does my custom definition also revert back to the original definition?

2. Why would this particular suggestion be rejected (assuming this is indeed the case)? The definition "chicken" is misleadingly general, when in fact 雞肉 only refers to chicken meat, and not to live chickens.

Hey Dependable Skeleton,

Scott's out climbing a mountain for a few days here, but when he gets back he can take a look at why your definition isn't being preserved on this one.

On first glance, it seems that it's probably a problem with our traditional variant system, since the simplified 鸡肉 already has "chicken (meat)", and the traditional should be just inheriting that definition, but instead has just "chicken". So I'm guessing that some wires are getting crossed in terms of what correction is pointing at what version of the word. This would not happen for most traditionals, just those containing a character with multiple traditional variants.

The other day I added a previously undefined word to a list, and defined it. After coming back a few days later I'd noticed the definition had been changed. Is this an exceptional circumstance? I understand generally the definitions you make don't get changed.

Thanks

It's set up now that if your correction is accepted as-is, and then later the definition is changed, then you get that update, too. We went with this so that you'd get any improvements made to the official definition, although it does have downsides if you don't want those "improvements".

If your correction is modified before being accepted, then you keep your definition forever.

Good to know, thanks!

@Dependable Skeleton: Looks like it was a bug where your correction for the traditional version was accepted but ended up being applied to the simplified version of the definition only, and then you'd be back to getting the old traditional version of the definition. I fixed it so the clarified definition is properly set up for both.

Thanks for the report!

Great! Thanks!