@@ -13,2 +13,2 @@
-<field>&sports;</field>
-<gloss>caddie (golf)</gloss>
+<field>&golf;</field>
+<gloss>caddie</gloss>

GG5

@@ -16,0 +17,5 @@
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<field>&comp;</field>
+<gloss>(CD-ROM) caddy</gloss>
+</sense>

@@ -13 +13,2 @@
-<gloss>caddie</gloss>
+<field>&sports;</field>
+<gloss>caddie (golf)</gloss>

@@ -7,0 +7,3 @@
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>キャディ</reb>

prog, chujiten

I don't think we need a gloss for what scuba stands for. "scuba" is a widely known term. A lot of people don't even know it's an acronym.
I don't think the x-ref is needed.

@@ -13 +12,0 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="1068050">スキューバダイビング</xref>
@@ -15 +14,2 @@
-<gloss>self-contained under-water breathing apparatus</gloss>
+<gloss>scuba diving equipment</gloss>
+<gloss>scuba gear</gloss>

It's not really an explanatory gloss, just the unabbreviated form.

@@ -12,0 +13 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="1068050">スキューバダイビング</xref>
@@ -14 +15 @@
-<gloss g_type="expl">self-contained under-water breathing apparatus</gloss>
+<gloss>self-contained under-water breathing apparatus</gloss>

@@ -14 +14 @@
-<gloss>self-contained under-water breathing apparatus</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="expl">self-contained under-water breathing apparatus</gloss>

daijs, koj

Splitting on source language.
Adding ソウル reading from 2027170.

@@ -6,0 +7,3 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ソール</reb>
+</r_ele>
@@ -10,4 +12,0 @@
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<gloss>Seoul (South Korea)</gloss>

twitter
At a quick glance, soul seemed to dominate, with the occassional Seoul mention

@@ -12,0 +13,4 @@
+<gloss>Seoul (South Korea)</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
@@ -17,4 +20,0 @@
-<sense>
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<gloss>Seoul (South Korea)</gloss>
-</sense>

I don't think so. ソウル means soul/Seoul and ソール almost only means sole, with the soul meaning almost a mistake. I think the current split reflects the situation quite well.

Better. I didn't question the original old entry.

daijs, gg5
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ソル

None of the refs have a "sun" sense (unless you include the Roman god).

@@ -10,2 +10,6 @@
-<gloss>the Sun</gloss>
-<gloss>Sol</gloss>
+<xref type="see" seq="1854330">太陽日</xref>
+<gloss>solar day (esp. on planets other than Earth)</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<gloss>sol (currency of Peru)</gloss>

"Sol" means "the Sun". It's used a bit colloquially.

@@ -9,0 +10 @@
+<gloss>the Sun</gloss>
@@ -11 +11,0 @@
-<gloss>the Sun</gloss>

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ソル
https://kotobank.jp/word/ソル-90436

Not sure the meaning of Sol here with capital initial: the god? Surname 'Sol' is in names file.

@@ -10,0 +11 @@
+<gloss>the Sun</gloss>

@@ -15,0 +16 @@
+<gloss>drawn game</gloss>

@@ -7,0 +8,3 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>タイ・ゲーム</reb>
+</r_ele>
@@ -11,0 +15 @@
+<gloss>tied game</gloss>

daij https://kotobank.jp/word/タイゲーム-556831

@@ -9,0 +10 @@
+<field>&sports;</field>

ナイトクラブ	85643
ナイト・クラブ	5080

@@ -7,0 +8,3 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ナイト・クラブ</reb>
+</r_ele>

Splitting off "ruff" (different source).

@@ -22,0 +23 @@
+<misc>&abbr;</misc>
@@ -26,4 +26,0 @@
-<sense>
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<gloss>ruff</gloss>
-</sense>

is abbr?

@@ -21,0 +22 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="1139510">ラフスケッチ</xref>

daijr/s

@@ -24,0 +25,4 @@
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<gloss>ruff</gloss>
+</sense>

gg5, etc.

i really don't think splitting the adj-na is necessary.  the english 'rough' covered them all but 'casual'.

@@ -10,2 +10,1 @@
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<gloss>rough (to the touch)</gloss>
+<gloss>rough</gloss>
@@ -15,12 +14,0 @@
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<gloss>rough (violent behavior)</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&adj-na;</pos>
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<gloss>rough (plan)</gloss>
-<gloss>inexact</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&adj-na;</pos>
-<pos>&n;</pos>

daijr, daijs, nikk: https://kotobank.jp/word/灰色-192911

@@ -15,0 +16,4 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>かいしょく</reb>
+<re_inf>&ok;</re_inf>
+</r_ele>

daij, meikyo, prog

@@ -24,0 +25,7 @@
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<pos>&vs;</pos>
+<pos>&vi;</pos>
+<gloss>being infected (e.g. with harmful ideas)</gloss>
+<gloss>being influenced (by)</gloss>
+</sense>

mk (2 senses, second figurative use of first)

@@ -18,0 +19,2 @@
+<pos>&vi;</pos>
+<field>&med;</field>

gg5, prog
Oxford (infection): "the process of infecting or the state of being infected"

"Infection" is not wrong.

@@ -19,2 +19 @@
-<pos>&adj-no;</pos>
-<gloss>contracting an infection</gloss>
+<gloss>infection</gloss>
@@ -21,0 +21 @@
+<gloss>becoming infected</gloss>

daijr

@@ -20 +20 @@
-<gloss>infection</gloss>
+<gloss>contracting an infection</gloss>

daij, koj
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/闕字
欠字	887
闕字	277

Added sense and kanji form.

@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>闕字</keb>
@@ -12 +15,3 @@
-<gloss>omitted word</gloss>
+<xref type="see" seq="1416500">脱字</xref>
+<gloss>omission of a character</gloss>
+<gloss>omitted character</gloss>
@@ -14 +19,5 @@
-<gloss>missing letter</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<misc>&hist;</misc>
+<gloss>insertion of blank spaces before and after the names of dignitaries (as a sign of respect)</gloss>

* GG5: "a shoji"
* OED: https://www.lexico.com/definition/shoji

That doesn't align with our 「障子」 entry, not to mention that "shoji" is in English dictionaries.

@@ -16 +16 @@
-<gloss>fittings that open and close (doors, windows, shōji, fusuma, etc.)</gloss>
+<gloss>fittings that open and close (doors, windows, shoji, fusuma, etc.)</gloss>

@@ -16 +16 @@
-<gloss>fittings that open and close (doors, windows, shoji, fusuma, etc.)</gloss>
+<gloss>fittings that open and close (doors, windows, shōji, fusuma, etc.)</gloss>

Meikyo vt and vi additions to n,vs entries
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-

@@ -18,0 +19 @@
+<pos>&vi;</pos>

Commenting here or emailing me directly will work. I've seen the two sentences and I'll index them now. One has had an amendment as suggested by an NSJ.

I found two example sentences for this and used them as a base for two new Tatoeba sentences for 出没.
So my question is, if I find or upload a sentence for a word that doesn’t have any example, is this where I should suggest linking to it?
Or do you already have some other process for that?

gg5

Although "infest" is used in some of the example sentences, I think it looks odd as a gloss here.

@@ -19,3 +19,3 @@
-<gloss>appearing frequently</gloss>
-<gloss>infesting</gloss>
-<gloss>appearance and disappearance</gloss>
+<gloss>making frequent appearances</gloss>
+<gloss>appearing often</gloss>
+<gloss>appearing and disappearing</gloss>

mk

@@ -16,0 +17,2 @@
+<pos>&vt;</pos>
+<pos>&vi;</pos>
@@ -22,0 +25,2 @@
+<pos>&vt;</pos>
+<pos>&vi;</pos>

daij, meikyo, gg5

The kokugos have a second sense.

@@ -17,0 +18,7 @@
+<gloss>refining</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<pos>&vs;</pos>
+<xref type="see" seq="1417570">単純化</xref>
+<gloss>simplification</gloss>

I don't see a need for the x-ref.

@@ -19 +18,0 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="1286370">国語・こくご・2</xref>

@@ -19 +18,0 @@
-<pos>&adj-no;</pos>

OK.

@@ -23,6 +22,0 @@
-<sense>
-<stagr>にほんご</stagr>
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<s_inf>esp. as a school or university subject</s_inf>
-<gloss>Japanese as a second language</gloss>
-</sense>

I'm with Jim and Rene. I don't see the need for sense 2 at all. "Japanese (language)" is perfectly sufficient.
We don't have two senses for 英語 or any other language entry.

gg5, meikyo

Not n-adv. I think a single n-suf PoS is sufficient for sense 2. It's always a suffix in modern Japanese.

@@ -13 +13 @@
-<pos>&n-adv;</pos>
+<pos>&n-suf;</pos>
@@ -15,2 +15 @@
-<pos>&suf;</pos>
-<gloss>the end of</gloss>
+<gloss>the end (of)</gloss>
@@ -19,3 +18 @@
-<pos>&n-adv;</pos>
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<pos>&suf;</pos>
+<pos>&n-suf;</pos>

gakken: 《接尾語》 (both senses)
https://kotobank.jp/word/末-136437 : both senses can be noun too

@@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<pos>&suf;</pos>
@@ -19,0 +21,2 @@
+<pos>&suf;</pos>
+<xref type="see" seq="1504880">粉末</xref>

gg5

I haven't used gakken but I would assume literary.
Both GG5 and meikyo have all 3 senses (and the latter doesn't tag any of them as literary) so I think we should leave this untagged for now.

@@ -12,0 +13 @@
+<gloss>order</gloss>
@@ -24,0 +26 @@
+<gloss>fate</gloss>

gakken has the 〔文語・文章語〕 label, does it translate to obsc or literary?

@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="1532160">命令・1</xref>
@@ -16,0 +18 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="1379530">生命</xref>
@@ -20,0 +23 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="1173030">運命</xref>

みょう is kanwa, and i have a hard time believing that the [news1,nf04] usage tags belong here as opposed to いのち (which has no news tags at all--that's obviously incorrect).

splitting senses

@@ -6,2 +6,0 @@
-<ke_pri>news1</ke_pri>
-<ke_pri>nf04</ke_pri>
@@ -11,5 +9,0 @@
-<re_pri>news1</re_pri>
-<re_pri>nf04</re_pri>
-</r_ele>
-<r_ele>
-<reb>みょう</reb>
@@ -21,0 +14,3 @@
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
@@ -22,0 +18,3 @@
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>

OK

shinmeikai, meikyo

honestly, i get that the third sense is more common, but at least historically we have tried to avoid listing abbreviated meanings before the original unabbreviated ones.  to me, this listing of senses makes far, far more sense when looking at the entry and trying to figure it out.  the user should be able to figure out when it means burglary and when not

this just seems like better practice for a dictionary

@@ -23,0 +24,9 @@
+<gloss>empty nest</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<gloss>empty house</gloss>
+<gloss>empty home</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
@@ -31,8 +39,0 @@
-<sense>
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<gloss>empty nest</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<gloss>empty house</gloss>
-</sense>

"空き巣の侵入を防ぐには"
native informant reads this as sense 3.
On "latest" on twitter I agree sense 1 is 
more common, though I see some sense 3 
tweets as well. Yeah, I don't know either. 
The entry might be more pedagogic with 
"empty house" first, but 
"burglary/burglar" do seem more common 
online.

I find that very surprising given the JEs example sentences and top results online. From the first page of Google results: "空き巣の手口を具体的に紹介", "空き巣の侵入を防ぐには", "空き巣対策", "空き巣被害には遭いたくないものですが", "空き巣がどのようにして住居に侵入するか".
Twitter is the same. Virtually all the tweets I skimmed over were sense 1.

2 native speakers (Kyushu, Osaka) 
initially agreed that 空き巣 does NOT refer 
to the burglar and not to the burglary - 
but when given example sentences relented. 
i think thisis a sign "empty house" should 
come first.

gg5, daij, koj

Usually has a negative connotation.

@@ -18,0 +19 @@
+<s_inf>negative nuance</s_inf>
@@ -20,2 +21,2 @@
-<gloss>tradition</gloss>
-<gloss>long-established custom</gloss>
+<gloss>tired tradition</gloss>
+<gloss>old custom</gloss>

Johan said 雑じる is marked as irregular in daijs, but I think daijs is only saying that it's a non-jōyō reading.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーー─┬───────────┬───────╮
│ 混じる │   490,027 │ 91.7% │
│ 交じる │    20,392 │  3.8% │
│ 雑じる │       279 │  0.1% │ 🡠 [iK] to [rK] (daijr/s, koj, meikyo)
│ 交る　 │     2,696 │  0.5% │ 🡠 [io] to [sK]
│ 混る　 │       684 │  0.1% │ 🡠 May as well add?
│ まじる │    20,570 │  3.8% │
├─ーーー─┼───────────┼───────┤
│ 混じっ │ 1,184,134 │ 95.4% │
│ 交じっ │    51,264 │  4.1% │
│ 雑じっ │       266 │  0.0% │
│ 交っ　 │     4,560 │  0.4% │
│ 混っ　 │     1,024 │  0.1% │
│ まじっ │   175,131 │  N/A  │
╰─ーーー─┴───────────┴───────╯

@@ -16 +16 @@
-<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf>
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
@@ -20 +20,5 @@
-<ke_inf>&io;</ke_inf>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>混る</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>

@@ -35 +35 @@
-<gloss>be combined</gloss>
+<gloss>to be combined</gloss>

3 weeks on - no comments.

@@ -30,0 +31 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="2179040">混じる・こんじる</xref>

daij, gg5

Refers to the character itself, not the act of inserting it.

@@ -12 +12,2 @@
-<gloss>(inadvertent) insertion of a character in a text</gloss>
+<gloss>superfluous character</gloss>
+<gloss>character added by mistake</gloss>

Daijr, GG5, ルミナス

A bit more meaningful.

@@ -13 +13,3 @@
-<gloss g_type="expl">type of cusped gable</gloss>
+<gloss>bow-shaped eaves of a gabled roof</gloss>
+<gloss>undulating gable</gloss>
+<gloss>cusped gable</gloss>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karahafu
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/破風
http://kotobank.jp/word/唐破風

@@ -12,1 +12,2 @@
-<gloss>Chinese cusped gable</gloss>
+<gloss>karahafu</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="expl">type of cusped gable</gloss>

@@ -15,0 +16 @@
+<field>&baseb;</field>
@@ -20,0 +22 @@
+<field>&sports;</field>

https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/word/打点/#jn-137758

@@ -18,0 +19,4 @@
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<gloss>position of a ball when struck (e.g. in tennis, volleyball)</gloss>
+</sense>

GG5: thin [cull] (out) 《plants》.

May as well keep"cull". It is also used for plants.

@@ -17,0 +18 @@
+<gloss>to cull</gloss>

gg5 koj daijs
Also compare www images for 間引く and "cull"

間引く is mostly used for plants and "to cull" for animals.

@@ -17 +17 @@
-<gloss>to thin out or cull (plants, seedlings, crops, etc.)</gloss>
+<gloss>to thin out (plants, seedlings, crops, etc.)</gloss>

"Cull" absolutely needs to be in meaning; 
I can see it was previously removed.

@@ -17 +17 @@
-<gloss>to thin out (plants, crops, etc.)</gloss>
+<gloss>to thin out or cull (plants, seedlings, crops, etc.)</gloss>

Could be "arch".

daij, meikyo

Splitting into senses.
Shinmeikai says "(江戸時代、貧困家庭で)" for sense 3. Not sure if this is an appropriate use of the hist tag.

@@ -17,2 +17,5 @@
-<gloss>to thin out</gloss>
-<gloss>to cull</gloss>
+<gloss>to thin out (plants, crops, etc.)</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&v5k;</pos>
+<pos>&vt;</pos>
@@ -19,0 +23,8 @@
+<gloss>to cut down</gloss>
+<gloss>to reduce</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&v5k;</pos>
+<pos>&vt;</pos>
+<misc>&hist;</misc>
+<gloss>to kill a newborn child (due to financial difficulties)</gloss>

Yes, the "that" is better.

daij, 中辞典
prog: 彼はすでに70代だが，その道にかけてはなかなかの男だ He is already in his seventies, but 「he's still quite a playboy [he still has quite an eye for women].

this -> that
The sense 2 glosses need "that" in front of them.
There's another sense we were missing.

@@ -16 +16 @@
-<gloss>this road (path, street, way, etc.)</gloss>
+<gloss>that road (path, street, way, etc.)</gloss>
@@ -21,4 +21,10 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="1454080">道・みち・7</xref>
-<gloss>line (of business)</gloss>
-<gloss>profession</gloss>
-<gloss>trade</gloss>
+<xref type="see" seq="1454080">道・7</xref>
+<gloss>that line (of business)</gloss>
+<gloss>that profession</gloss>
+<gloss>that trade</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&exp;</pos>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<gloss>love affairs</gloss>
+<gloss>romance</gloss>

OK, I'll drop the note and switch senses. Probably better this way.

@@ -15,0 +16,5 @@
+<gloss>this road (path, street, way, etc.)</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&exp;</pos>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
@@ -21,6 +25,0 @@
-<sense>
-<pos>&exp;</pos>
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<s_inf>usual meaning</s_inf>
-<gloss>this road (path, street, way, etc.)</gloss>
-</sense>

I'm OK having this as an entry (and prob. あの道 and この道) but I don't think the 2nd sense should be there. Either we do every single 
sense from 道, or we do just one, or we're being misleading. If it really must be kept, I think the note must go. What does "usual 
meaning" mean? I have my doubts it's actually "usual" as in "more common." But if it were, why isn't it sense 1? I think small 
inconsistencies like these makes the dictionary harder to use.

Probably time to call it a day on this one. I'm leaving it in largely because of its presence in the JEs. I'm also leaving in the "usual meaning" because I'm aware this is primarily a decoding/passive dictionary and there's a risk that learners might think sense 1 is the only meaning of the expression.
I see that GG5 also has この道 entry referencing the same sense of 道 (but not one for あの道.)  [Daijr has a この道 entry too; for the 1927 song "この道はいつか来た道".]

Rejecting fork

Google n-gram counts for various searches:
"可きではない"	108
"冖冠"		96
"ワ冠"		105

可きではない	124
冖冠		128
ワ冠		121

Jisho.org Parsing issues:
可きではない		https://jisho.org/search/可きではない
躊躇す可きではないが	https://jisho.org/search/躊躇す可きではないが

A reply to the comment. (I have quite a bit to say in reply. I'll try to keep it as brief as possible. If such lengthy replies don't belong in these kinds of edit comments, please let me know. I've included my email address if that's useful.)

1. I added a [uk] tag to mirror the same in 可き. That should at least notify that the kanji version(s) are less common.

2. I attempted to replicate your Google n-grams, but I'm not sure of the correct procedure, though I searched around for it. It seems it's just page counts? I assume with 'duplicates omitted', and you go to the last page of the search to get most accurate estimates? If I'm "doin' it rong", please point me to the correct procedure.

  2.1 I could not replicate your exact n-gram counts. Perhaps it depends on prior search history or something. So, instead I just used the same procedure each time, and hopefully my relative counts will give a better-than-nothing data point.

  2.2 I wasn't confident with the counts with 'raw' searches, so I include primarily results with "quotation" marks around them, and 'raw' results underneath. Hopefully the quoted searches provide more accurate results. The counts without quotes were larger, but not wildly out of proportion.

  2.3 There are slight differences between the counts at the top of the page, e.g. "... about 108 results", and at the bottom of the page, e.g. "... we have omitted some entries very similar to the 110 already displayed." For simplicity, since the differences are small, and the top-of-page counts are more obvious, I've used the top counts.

3. I did a simple search for "beki" on Jisho.org (which relies on JMDICT), and it converted the romaji into a search for べき. A direct search for べき returns identical results. I chose this search because that's how I've often used Jisho.org; it seemed natural.

  3.1 The first result was of course 可き. Result #6 was 冖冠, and result #11 was べきではない. A similar search on JMDICT itself gave a different order: #3 冖冠, #12 可き, and #17 べきではない. Not sure why this was the order, just reporting it.

Analysis/Opinion:
A search for べき (on Jisho.org) results in 可き, 冖冠 (kanji "wa" radical at top (radical 14)), and べきではない with roughly equal footing (all in top 15 results), though with べきではない below 冖冠, even on the JMDICT search, even though both 可き and べきではない are vastly more 'popular' than 冖冠, which is a fairly obscure Japanese language terminology (AFAICT).

So, I thought, "How does 冖冠 stack up in Google n-gram results?" Turns out that it's about even with 可きではない. Roughly 100 page counts with duplicates omitted.

That clearly says to me that while Google n-grams will be a useful heuristic, there are clearly additional considerations other than mere internet popularity that factor into whether it's worth including an entry or not. For example, including an entry about the 'wa' radical in a kanji is relevant to the Japanese language itself, so I conclude that -- even though 冖冠 has a low Google n-gram -- considerations of an entry's relevance to the Japanese language itself can overcome that rough rule-of-thumb.

But, just to be certain I wasn't jumping the gun, I noticed that the entry for 冖冠 has a 'see also' reference to ワ冠. Perhaps 冖冠 is obscure, and ワ冠 is actually the more common terminology? But no, as the n-gram counts in the References above show, it's actually nearly identical to 冖冠, and thus to ​可きではない also.

What about 可きではない? Does it have any relevance to the Japanese language itself? I have two lines of reasoning that it does:

1. The first entry on the Google search for "可きではない" is for a book from 2000 titled 徳田秋声全集 (Complete Works of Shūsei Tokuda). 徳田秋声 lived from 1 February 1872 – 18 November 1943, so that seems to me that he would still be considered relatively 'modern', to fit with JMDICT's goal to reflect modern Japanese. According to the English Wikipedia, several of his novels were made into movies. On of his short stories was included in "The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature" (2005), and another in "Modern Japanese Stories: An Anthology" (originally 1962, but with several reprints and a second edition, latest published 2005) by Ivan I. Morris (who himself has a Wikipedia page and academic credentials, etc.).

So, this is at least one case (literally the first Google result) in which 可きではない appears in culturally/historically significant modern (according to scholars at Columbia University) Japanese literature/writing. Since several other of the results are also physical books, I think that may be what's skewing the n-gram so low. While it might not be very common in present day usage, on the Internet especially, it was used in modern literary works whose contents barely show up on Google searches. And most of those results will be marked as 'duplicates' by Google, yet these are popular books, earning themselves many reprints even from the year 2000 and beyond. Clearly, this usage is not so rare as the Google n-gram heuristic at first makes it appear.

I hope that helps to dispense with the Google n-gram objection. More important (IMHO) though is my second point.

2. A major purpose of any Japanese-English dictionary, or especially a Japanese-Multilingual dictionary, is to aid people who are not only using the dictionary as a static tool of reference -- the way most native English speakers would use an English dictionary, or a fluently bilingual person might need to look up the odd word here or there -- but as a dynamic tool to aid in *learning* Japanese from the standpoint of a native English (or whatever language) speaker.

To this end, it makes sense to include 'not so common on the Internet with native Japanese speakers these days' information that nevertheless reflects the structure and consistency of the Japanese language itself, thus to make it 'visible' to the confused beginner and intermediate learners.

The word 可き happens to be one of those particularly confusing words from the standpoint of someone mostly only familiar with English grammar, idioms, and vocabulary. Especially in the way that it connects with the words around it. I know it's confusing, because it's been a stumbling block for me for weeks, more so than most other grammar/vocabulary points I've been able to work through with relative ease.

I use Jisho.org (again, based largely on JMDICT data) more as a User's Manual than as a mere dictionary. It helps me find the similarities between words and kanji that are obscured 'in the wild' where all sorts of Internet idioms used by native speakers would be eternally mysterious to me if I didn't have a tool like Jisho.org to help me parse out the meanings, and see the connections between kana-from-the-wild and the corresponding kanji in my 'User's Manual'.

As it stands, Jisho.org itself runs into stumbling blocks when one tries to learn about 可き and how to use it properly (regardless whether with kanji or kana). I will give you a perfect example:

Jisho.org uses the JMDICT entries and part-of-speech metadata to help you understand a text fragment (word, phrase, sentence, whatever) by pasting in the entire text fragment into the search box and it will do its best to parse the text, classify each word or expression in the sentence, and allow you to click on each parsed word to see what it means in context. So, in order to help me understand 可き better, I wanted to learn how it connects with ではない grammar (and not, for example, がない or some other idiom).

So, I searched on Jisho.org for "可きではない", as seems very natural to do. But instead of getting the actual entry for "べきではない", as you'd expect, instead Jisho doesn't find that entry (because the kanji is not included in that entry) so it tries to parse-out this text fragment as best it can. The results are quite discouraging. Link to this example in References above. It splits up the text like this:

か
可 き で は ない 

In other words, it is forced to interpret the 可 kanji as か ('possible') instead of being べ as part of べき. This confusion is no doubt caused by the other characters ではない being forced to be interpreted as で, は, and ない, rather than as part of the idiomatic way that べき joins with ではない instead of something like がない.

Likewise, if we try to find an example sentence using 可きではない, a quick google search turns up that Shūsei Tokuda book, with a handy text fragment "躊躇す可きではないが". Sadly, this extra context doesn't seem to do the parser any good. It botches the parsing as:

ちゅうちょす	か 
躊躇す		可 き で は ない が 

The same issue arises: The べきではない entry simply *lacks* the crucial piece of information that it *can* be written as 可きではない.

But, critically, it's not that 可きではない is all that popular. In fact it has probably fallen out of current usage, for the most part. But the more important point, which is the entire point I'm trying to make here with point #2, is that 可きではない is *correct* Japanese. So, from my perspective as a Japanese learner, I would wish for my 'User's Manual' Jisho.org to be able to recognize this correct Japanese and tell me what it means without sending me on a wild goose chase trying to figure out what the connection to 可 (possible) has to do with anything, and why き is marked as an unknown noun (perhaps 'tree', perhaps 'spirit', who knows?).

Summing Up

Now, this may seem like a lot of hullabaloo about one measly entry in JMDICT. What's the big deal?

Well, as I mentioned in my initial comment, this is just *one* example of where a minor touch-up to the JMDICT data could help others who come after me to not have to trip up and get confused and run around in circles. There are many other examples I've run across over the past couple of months, and I held off trying to make any edits, since it seemed a little too risky at the time (not knowing much about the innards of JMDICT at the time); didn't want to mess anything up. But this example with 可きではない seemed like a perfect little test-case to try out a small edit that would smooth out the learning experience for anyone else following a similar learning path.

And just today, I was trying to understand the system of こんな, そんな, あんな, どんな, and how they connect to related words like こういう, etc., and I found yet more instances where the JMDICT entries are simply incomplete (from a learner's point of view), and where 'current popularity on the Internet' should probably not be the main guide as to whether some minor changes are accepted/rejected, but rather whether those changes would improve the quality of all the various tools used by a Japanese language learner (not just Jisho.org, but several other learning sites I'm using as well), that all inevitably depend on the JMDICT data itself.

I finally understand that こんな system, but it took quite a while, and it really didn't need to if the JMDICT entries just had a little additional information, and the correction of a few inconsistencies between all the different related entries. All of which I'd feel much more confident to try to fix if this particular 可きではない test proves worthwhile.

So, I apologize for this huge comment. But it seems like an important enough point, that I felt it necessary to justify it at some length: that dictionaries, especially language-to-language dictionaries, aren't just about 'what's being used most frequently', but also about being language-learning toolkit/documentation/user-manual for language learners.

Hopefully this doesn't annoy the heck out of ya. If you got this far, thanks for your patience and time. Cheers! And take care these days.

@@ -12,0 +13 @@
+<misc>&uk;</misc>

A quick google search for "可きではない" found 6000+ hits. I briefly scanned a few to make sure I didn't mess up the search, and they were legitimate.

Just adding a kanji version, to parallel 可き. This is my first edit, so if there are any problems, please let me know. I've been tempted to make some similar edits in the past, but wasn't sure about it, so this is a test for me. 

The motivation to add this kanji reading is that I'm learning kanji via different sites that indirectly use JMDICT data, and having these additional kanji 'readings' would assist in this learning process.

@@ -3,0 +4,3 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>可きではない</keb>
+</k_ele>

G n-grams 1197451

@@ -5,0 +6 @@
+<re_pri>spec1</re_pri>

〈可／べ〉きでは〈無／な〉い

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーー─┬───────────┬───────╮
│ べきでは無い │    18,958 │  1.6% │ - add, sK
│ 可きではない │       210 │  0.0% │ - add, sK
│ 可きでは無い │        33 │  0.0% │
│ べきではない │ 1,197,884 │ 98.4% │
├─ーーーーーー─┼───────────┼───────┤
│ べきでは無く │       248 │  0.3% │
│ 可きでは無く │         0 │  0.0% │
│ 可きではなく │         0 │  0.0% │
│ べきではなく │    74,530 │ 99.7% │
╰─ーーーーーー─┴───────────┴───────╯

I didn't read the long discussion in this entry but I don't think we have a problem with these sorts of kanji forms anymore.

@@ -3,0 +4,8 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>べきでは無い</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>可きではない</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
@@ -9,0 +18,2 @@
+<pos>&adj-i;</pos>
+<misc>&uk;</misc>

I've responded to Rob directly.

Thanks for the explanations on your decision. And sorry for the long reply. I was just worried that if I didn't go into the whole thought process, it might seem like I was arguing for a very nit-picky thing, when really for me it's much more of a big-picture kind of question.

With that in mind, I notice that no one has yet responded to the point I made about JMDICT being the data source for many Japanese language learning tools, and even if data may not reflect popularity (as in the example of "(wa) katakana at top"), it may still be worthwhile for the sake of documenting the language itself.

All that said, I respect and accept your decision on this particular entry; but I'm still interested in hearing your thoughts/opinions about this more 'philosophical' point about how JMDICT should (or should not) attempt to support language learners, rather than just reflect current-day usage.

Is such discussion appropriate in these comments or is there another/better way I can ask about this kind of thing?

Jim, I'll look for your email address and try to email you. Thanks for the offer. [D'oh! I see it now at the top of the confirmation page.]

Thanks, Marcus. I think that covers it, and I'll close this off now. I don't mind having the kanji form shown on the basic forms (GG5 has 可き in the べき entry), but I do think it is inappropriate to have them in the virtually-always-kana expressions.
Re この/此の/etc. I see Daijirin and GG5 have the 此の, but the other JEs don't.
Marcus: I've added a GitHub issue for [rare]
Rob: if you want to find out more about the n-grams, email me. They are not the counts you get from Google searches, which are almost useless.

@@ -4,3 +3,0 @@
-<k_ele>
-<keb>可きではない</keb>
-</k_ele>
@@ -13 +9,0 @@
-<misc>&uk;</misc>

gg5, daij

Splitting on source language (added ソール reading to 1075370).

@@ -9,6 +9 @@
-<gloss>sole</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<xref type="see" seq="1075370">ソウル・1</xref>
-<gloss>soul</gloss>
+<gloss>sole (of a shoe, golf club, etc.)</gloss>

@@ -12,0 +13 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="1075370">ソウル・1</xref>

Entry created

@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+<xref type="ant" seq="2845752">暗</xref>

gg5, daij

@@ -16,2 +16,3 @@
-<gloss>clarity</gloss>
-<gloss>acumen</gloss>
+<gloss>discernment</gloss>
+<gloss>insight</gloss>
+<gloss>an eye (for)</gloss>
@@ -22 +23,2 @@
-<gloss>power of vision</gloss>
+<gloss>eyesight</gloss>
+<gloss>vision</gloss>

@@ -20,0 +21 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="1911740">明を失う</xref>

https://www.dosokai.ne.jp/wachutoin/hyo.html
https://iss.ndl.go.jp/books/R100000002-I000002381873-00
"福島県社会福祉史年表 : 1907(明40)年"
https://www.shibusawa.or.jp/SH/denkijigyo/np062.html
"1881(明14)年
5月3日～"
https://www.keio.co.jp/company/corporate/summary/history/history_01.html
"当社の前身である京王電気軌道株式会社は、1910（明43）年9月に設立され、3年後の13（大2）年4月に笹塚～調布間が開通しました。"

@@ -22,0 +23,6 @@
+<sense>
+<pos>&pref;</pos>
+<xref type="see" seq="1611970">明治</xref>
+<misc>&abbr;</misc>
+<gloss>nth year in the Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)</gloss>
+</sense>

daijr

I think this is better without an x-ref. It's used in contexts where 足跡 is not applicable.

@@ -9 +8,0 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="1581330">足跡・1</xref>

@@ -8,0 +9 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="1581330">足跡・1</xref>

not limited to computing
daijr, daijs: https://kotobank.jp/word/フットプリント-682478

@@ -9 +8,0 @@
-<field>&comp;</field>

Entry created

That "arch" was the result of an old bug which moved the tag from another sense when it was formated (back in 2008).

@@ -9 +8,0 @@
-<misc>&arch;</misc>

should sense 1 really br arch? if so, 
shouldn't it be the last sense?

@@ -10 +10,2 @@
-<gloss>unh (sound of physical exertion)</gloss>
+<s_inf>expression of physical exertion</s_inf>
+<gloss>unh</gloss>

OK. I'll push that split through.

@@ -25,17 +24,0 @@
-<sense>
-<pos>&aux-v;</pos>
-<misc>&arch;</misc>
-<s_inf>after a -nai stem, pronounced ん in modern Japanese</s_inf>
-<gloss>probably</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&aux-v;</pos>
-<misc>&arch;</misc>
-<gloss>will</gloss>
-<gloss>intend to</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&aux-v;</pos>
-<misc>&arch;</misc>
-<gloss>would like to have done (for me)</gloss>
-</sense>

sorry, i've been dealing with the university transition from in-person classes to online, so i haven't had much time to look at this recently.

i don't know how we would normally handle such a case.  i think i'm okay if it is split?  seems more consistent with how we've been doing things lately

Yes, maybe. Any views, Rene? You put this one in in 2008.

That "arch" was the result of an old bug which moved the tag from another sense when it was formated (back in 2008).

@@ -9 +8,0 @@
-<misc>&arch;</misc>

should sense 1 really br arch? if so, 
shouldn't it be the last sense?

@@ -10 +10,2 @@
-<gloss>unh (sound of physical exertion)</gloss>
+<s_inf>expression of physical exertion</s_inf>
+<gloss>unh</gloss>

OK. I'll push that split through.

@@ -25,17 +24,0 @@
-<sense>
-<pos>&aux-v;</pos>
-<misc>&arch;</misc>
-<s_inf>after a -nai stem, pronounced ん in modern Japanese</s_inf>
-<gloss>probably</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&aux-v;</pos>
-<misc>&arch;</misc>
-<gloss>will</gloss>
-<gloss>intend to</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&aux-v;</pos>
-<misc>&arch;</misc>
-<gloss>would like to have done (for me)</gloss>
-</sense>

That "arch" was the result of an old bug which moved the tag from another sense when it was formated (back in 2008).

@@ -9 +8,0 @@
-<misc>&arch;</misc>

should sense 1 really br arch? if so, 
shouldn't it be the last sense?

@@ -10 +10,2 @@
-<gloss>unh (sound of physical exertion)</gloss>
+<s_inf>expression of physical exertion</s_inf>
+<gloss>unh</gloss>

OK. I'll push that split through.

@@ -25,17 +24,0 @@
-<sense>
-<pos>&aux-v;</pos>
-<misc>&arch;</misc>
-<s_inf>after a -nai stem, pronounced ん in modern Japanese</s_inf>
-<gloss>probably</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&aux-v;</pos>
-<misc>&arch;</misc>
-<gloss>will</gloss>
-<gloss>intend to</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&aux-v;</pos>
-<misc>&arch;</misc>
-<gloss>would like to have done (for me)</gloss>
-</sense>

さいたかね is 最+高値 and さいこうち is 最高+値. AFAICT the さいこうち reading only applies to the "maximum value" meaning (which is rather rare). This needs to be split. I'll create the さいこうち entry.

@@ -10,3 +9,0 @@
-<r_ele>
-<reb>さいこうち</reb>
-</r_ele>
@@ -20,5 +16,0 @@
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<stagr>さいこうち</stagr>
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<gloss>maximum value</gloss>

https://nandokukanji.jp/kanji/037/037196.htm
https://ja.hinative.com/questions/18959334

@@ -9,0 +10,3 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>さいこうち</reb>
+</r_ele>
@@ -16,0 +20,5 @@
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<stagr>さいこうち</stagr>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<gloss>maximum value</gloss>

gg5, daij

Specifically a price.

@@ -13 +13,2 @@
-<gloss>all-time high (e.g. in trading, shopping)</gloss>
+<field>&finc;</field>
+<gloss>all-time high (price, in trading)</gloss>

GG5, etc. too

daij, koj
落字	134
脱字	448837

Aligning.

@@ -13 +13 @@
-<gloss>omitted word</gloss>
+<misc>&obsc;</misc>
@@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<gloss>omitted letter</gloss>

@@ -12,1 +12,3 @@
-<gloss>omitted word or character</gloss>
+<xref type="see" seq="1416500">脱字</xref>
+<gloss>omitted word</gloss>
+<gloss>omitted character</gloss>

daijr
http://www.weblio.jp/content/落字

Daijr, GG5

@@ -16 +16 @@
-<gloss>girl</gloss>
+<gloss>girl (esp. Chinese)</gloss>
@@ -18 +17,0 @@
-<gloss>Chinese girl</gloss>

see nikk quotation: https://kotobank.jp/word/姑娘-482548
クーニャン	4223
クウニャン	594

@@ -8,0 +9,3 @@
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>クウニャン</reb>

GG5 too.

wiki, daijs, nikk, daijr
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/兵隊シ�
%8A%E8%AA%9E
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gūniang

I was googling for カイカイデ because I was wondering why it 
ended up in both daijs and nikk when I cam across this 
article:
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/兵隊シ�%
83%8A%E8%AA%9E
"兵隊シナ語"
quite interesting.

@@ -8,0 +9,3 @@
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ふー</reb>

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/woohoo

@@ -20 +20 @@
-<gloss>wohoo</gloss>
+<gloss>woohoo</gloss>

@@ -12 +12 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="1010970">ふうふう・1</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="1010970">ふうふう・2</xref>

@@ -12 +12 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="1010970">ふうふう</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="1010970">ふうふう・1</xref>

@@ -21,0 +22 @@
+<misc>&hist;</misc>

@@ -22 +22 @@
-<gloss>Keijou (name given to Seoul during the Japanese occupation)</gloss>
+<gloss>Keijō (name given to Seoul during the Japanese occupation)</gloss>

@@ -21 +21 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="1075370">ソウル・2</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2843957">ソウル</xref>

@@ -21 +21 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="1075370">ソウル・3</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="1075370">ソウル・2</xref>

Closing.

冥鈔	< 20

I doubt it's appropriate as an entry. The reference is an explanation of a Chinese term.

世界大百科事典 https://kotobank.jp/word/冥鈔-1425902
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_money

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fGrqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=Daihi+Kannon&source=bl&ots=CtAppJLUQe&sig=ACfU3U2eoTn-eXKGAjJmWkmUilHdxd53yw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjl-Kaxx8joAhXt4jgGHbxWDDAQ6AEwCnoECAoQKw#v=onepage&q=Daihi Kannon&f=false - 
"Daihi Kannon" or the "Kannon of Great Mercy"

Maybe this works better.

@@ -14 +14,3 @@
-<gloss>Greatly Compassionate Kannon (alt. name for Avalokiteshvara)</gloss>
+<gloss>Kannon of Great Mercy (alt. name for Avalokiteshvara)</gloss>
+<gloss>Greatly Compassionate Kannon</gloss>
+<gloss>Daihi Kannon</gloss>

Does this work?

@@ -14 +14 @@
-<gloss>Daihi Kannon (alt. name for Avalokiteshvara)</gloss>
+<gloss>Greatly Compassionate Kannon (alt. name for Avalokiteshvara)</gloss>

@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="1214800">観音様・かんのんさま・1</xref>
@@ -13 +14 @@
-<gloss>Daihi Kannon (alternative name for Avalokiteshvara)</gloss>
+<gloss>Daihi Kannon (alt. name for Avalokiteshvara)</gloss>

daijr https://kotobank.jp/word/大悲観音-558167

i think sense 1 is off

@@ -12 +12 @@
-<gloss>this sub-temple</gloss>
+<gloss>head temple (of a branch temple)</gloss>

daijr https://kotobank.jp/word/本坊-632539

Daijs has another sense I didn't quite understand

花頭窓	1928
火灯窓	402
華頭窓	293
架灯窓	< 20
瓦灯窓	< 20

@@ -13,6 +12,0 @@
-<k_ele>
-<keb>架灯窓</keb>
-</k_ele>
-<k_ele>
-<keb>瓦灯窓</keb>
-</k_ele>
@@ -24 +18 @@
-<gloss>bell-shaped window oft. seen in temples</gloss>
+<gloss>bell-shaped window (usu. in temples)</gloss>

https://kotobank.jp/word/花頭窓-45582
https://kotobank.jp/word/火灯窓-464876
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/火灯窓

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karamon#Mukaikaramon

No "guessing" or "personally" - I was trying to nudge you in the direction of putting together a more relevant translation, rather than doing one of my own. The key (for me) is to relate it to the 唐門 entry.

@@ -16 +16,2 @@
-<gloss>traditional Japanese gate with a cusped gable (usu. in temples and shrines)</gloss>
+<xref type="see" seq="1774750">唐破風</xref>
+<gloss>karamon gate with karahafu eaves at the front and back</gloss>

Jim, I'm not going to try to guess how you personally want this entry to be. Just make the changes you want and move on. This back and forth is a waste of time for both of us.

- we don't bother with "traditional Japanese" for the 唐門 entry. Why have it here?
- how does a 向唐門 differ from a 唐門?

@@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="1774700">唐門</xref>

How's that?

@@ -15 +15 @@
-<gloss>type of traditional Japanese gate at temples and shrines</gloss>
+<gloss>traditional Japanese gate with a cusped gable (usu. in temples and shrines)</gloss>

http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta/m/mukaikaramon.htm
向唐門	515

I suggest you revise this proposed entry, avoiding the rather opaque "type of ..." gloss. Relating it to the current 唐門 and  唐破風 entries might be a good idea: 
唐門 （からもん） (n) karamon; large gate with a karahafu gable (typically at a temple, shrine or castle)
唐破風 （からはふ） (n) karahafu; bow-shaped eaves of a gabled roof; undulating gable; cusped gable

Koj, Daijr

@@ -12 +12 @@
-<gloss>small buildings at the ends of a two-storied Zen gate containing the stairs to the second story</gloss>
+<gloss>small buildings at the sides of a Zen temple gate (containing stairs to the upper storey)</gloss>

daijr https://kotobank.jp/word/山廊-515119

daij, koj
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_cutting

@@ -13,2 +13,2 @@
-<gloss>selective cutting (of trees)</gloss>
-<gloss>selection cutting</gloss>
+<gloss>selection cutting (of trees)</gloss>
+<gloss>selective cutting</gloss>

https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/択伐
daijs https://kotobank.jp/word/択伐-559882

Well, it's there in Gakken. Quite a few hits, a lot related to "Google Scholar".

Not in any of my refs as "scholar". Adding tag per wiki: "It is also particularly appropriate to add it to a term if there are other more common terms with the same meaning."

@@ -8,0 +9,2 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="1206800">学者</xref>
+<misc>&obsc;</misc>

gakken katakana

Indeed.

you wouldn't expect to see
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
as an entry in an ei-wa 
dictionary, I suppose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKdvvlz-ibU
あかさたなはまやらわ	13834
アカサタナハマヤラワ	695
あかさたなはまやらわん	408
アカサタナハマヤラワン	< 20

Interesting. The gloss would be better as "a, ka, sa, ta, ...". It's nothing to do with "ABC".
Anyway, I don't think this is a suitable dictionary entry.

daijr

@@ -8,0 +9 @@
+<field>&cloth;</field>

Split from  1139490.

Thanks.

行かんと	39260
行かむと	294
行かんため	25
行かむため	No matches
行かんがため	46
行かむがため	No matches

@@ -5 +5 @@
-<reb>む</reb>
+<reb>ん</reb>
@@ -8 +8,2 @@
-<reb>ん</reb>
+<reb>む</reb>
+<re_inf>&ok;</re_inf>
@@ -13 +14 @@
-<s_inf>after a -nai stem, pronounced ん in modern Japanese</s_inf>
+<s_inf>after a -nai stem</s_inf>

Split from 2406530. See discussion there.

GG5
懲罰的損害賠償	4169

daijs https://kotobank.jp/word/懲罰的損害賠償-1740811
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punitive_damages

Koj. 0 n-grams.

daijr, daijs, nikk: https://kotobank.jp/word/生は死の始め-544369
google has only three pages of search results

Daijr and jitenon use a comma, but kanjipedia does not.

https://github.com/JMdictProject/JMdictIssues/issues/122
Adding commas to readings to align with kanji forms.

@@ -8,0 +9 @@
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -11 +12 @@
-<reb>せいあいちかしならいあいとおし</reb>
+<reb>せいあいちかし、ならいあいとおし</reb>

That seems to work.

I thought "by human nature beings are ..." was rather clumsy.

@@ -17 +17 @@
-<gloss>by human nature beings are close, through practice they grow far apart</gloss>
+<gloss>by human nature we are close, through practice we grow apart</gloss>

Good point. I've put in two other versions that I have found.

@@ -17 +17,2 @@
-<gloss>human nature is alike, practice makes them apart</gloss>
+<gloss>by human nature beings are close, through practice they grow far apart</gloss>
+<gloss>by nature, near together; by practice far apart</gloss>

Isn't there a singular/plural mismatch going on in the English 
translation? It doesn't read as idiomatic English to me.

daij, koj

Not sure about the translation. "Harvesting" is a forestry term.

daijr, koj, eij

As a style point, we usually lead with the non-nakaguro version.

@@ -5 +5 @@
-<reb>カーボン・フットプリント</reb>
+<reb>カーボンフットプリント</reb>
@@ -8 +8 @@
-<reb>カーボンフットプリント</reb>
+<reb>カーボン・フットプリント</reb>

daijs: https://kotobank.jp/word/カーボンフットプリント-887677
カーボン・フットプリント	130
カーボンフットプリント	76

saw on NHK news az
"広がる「ソーシャルディスタンシング」
（社会的距離）"
plenty of tweets

daijs: https://kotobank.jp/word/ウェアラブルカメラ-685460
ウェアラブルカメラ	390
ウエアラブルカメラ	No matches
ウェアラブル・カメラ	No matches
ウエアラブル・カメラ	No matches

nvm, see Robin's edit.

@@ -12 +11,0 @@
-<field>&med;</field>

@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+<field>&med;</field>

See 2843970.

@@ -12 +11,0 @@
-<field>&med;</field>

Daijr, GG5

daijs: https://kotobank.jp/word/サイレントキラー-508669
サイレントキラー	4973
サイレント・キラー	1404

I don't think this or サイレントキラー are medical terms. "Silent killer" wouldn't be considered a medical term in English.

@@ -14 +13,0 @@
-<field>&med;</field>

ＫＯＤ追加語彙

@@ -10,0 +11 @@
+<pos>&exp;</pos>

https://kotobank.jp/word/沈黙の殺人者(サイレントキラー)-1127424
サイレントキラー	4973
サイレント・キラー	1404
沈黙の殺人者	1022

daijs: https://kotobank.jp/word/マイクロプラスチック-1693346

daijs: https://kotobank.jp/word/マイクロビーズ-1724775
マイクロビーズ	10971
マイクロ・ビーズ	23

daijs: https://kotobank.jp/word/ラミダス猿人-1693714
ラミダス猿人	762

daijs: https://kotobank.jp/word/アルディピテクスラミダス-1689801
アルディピテクスラミダス	No matches
アルディピテクスラミドゥス	No matches
アルディピテクス	208
ラミダス猿人	762

Not a computing term.

@@ -12,2 +12 @@
-<field>&comp;</field>
-<gloss>smart speaker</gloss>
+<gloss>smart speaker (speaker with integrated virtual assistant)</gloss>

no n-gram hits

@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>スマート・スピーカー</reb>

daijs: https://kotobank.jp/word/スマートスピーカー-1823594

Daijr, GG5

daijs: https://kotobank.jp/word/バイオプラスチック-161522
バイオプラスチック	6181
バイオ・プラスチック	129

ＫＯＤ追加語彙

@@ -13,0 +14,2 @@
+<gloss>organic plastic</gloss>
+<gloss>vegetable-based plastic</gloss>

バイオマスプラスチック	3556
バイオマス・プラスチック	367
daijs: https://kotobank.jp/word/バイオマスプラスチック-184197

gakken katakana
グリーン・プラ
[語源] green plastics [和製]
生分解性プラスチック．微生物によって水と炭酸ガスに分解されるため，使用後は土や肥料にすることができる．

gakken katakana dictionary explicitly calls it 和製, and as per Jim's examples, this is consistent with our style

if you are feeling confused as an uninitiated member, the advice since the dawn of the internet has always been "lurk more".
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lurk more

don't remove things without a reference.  if you're arguing that we're being inconsistent, then give explicit examples as references (as Jim did)

if you post using a name and provide references for your submissions, you'll find us rather welcoming so long as you avoid lobbing insults.  with the exception of Jim, the entire editorial team was assembled literally by welcoming contributors.

The absolute majority of the ハラ (harassment) entries are not tagged as wasei. And while the obscure パ_ス_コン might be, パ_ソ_コン is not. I'm also 100% sure I've seen this mentioned in the comments of a similar entry where the consensus was that words that contain gairaigo abbreviations that aren't themselves used in English should not be marked as wasei, and I'm pretty sure I saw you, Jim, participate in that discussion too. I'm pointing out this inconsistency for the sake of the dictionary, not because I have anything to gain from it, and the sort of overbearing attitude on display here is very unbecoming. I think this is a bigger issue for jmdict, how non-editors are more often than not treated like unwelcome riff-raff. I see disparaging comments directed towards Nicolas Maia all the time, for example, and it just makes me shake my head. I also don't get why it seems to provoke you guys so much that people many times submit entries without references. It's almost as if you don't want the project to grow. Do you want the dictionary to be as complete as possible or not?

I get the editing team consists of a bunch of grumpy middle-aged to old men doing this in their spare time, but you might want to think about how this comes across to the uninitiated. I'm 100% sure you would have many more people participating in a positive way if you worked on being more welcoming. (and the dictionary would both be more complete and its entries of a higher standard too)

Look at: パスコン, メットイン, アカハラ, エアロバイク, アジビラ, ....

The dictionary style (in other similar 
entries) is to not mark words that include 
abbreviations as wasei. Marking this as 
wasei is inconsistent.

Hardly necessary

@@ -12,0 +13 @@
+<lsource ls_wasei="y">green pla(stic)</lsource>

gg5, koj
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polylactic_acid

@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+<field>&chem;</field>
@@ -12,0 +14 @@
+<gloss>polylactide</gloss>

daijs: https://kotobank.jp/word/ポリ乳酸-8868
wikipedia (ja:ポリ乳酸 <=> en:Polylactic acid)

G n-grams:
フーフー言って	2917
ふうふう言って	1842

We already have a ふう entry (2828104). I'll add the フー reading.

@@ -3,0 +4,3 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ふう</reb>
+</r_ele>

Hard to find sources for this but I
know it's right, check with any native 
speaker

中辞典

Not a small ship carrying oil.

@@ -6,0 +7,3 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>オイル・ライター</reb>
+</r_ele>
@@ -9 +12 @@
-<gloss>oil lighter</gloss>
+<gloss>oil lighter (for cigarettes)</gloss>

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ライター#燃焼式

gg5, daijr

@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>サバイバル・ナイフ</reb>

https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=サバイバルナイフ

gg5, daijr/s
これと言う	6173
これという	56693

This appears to be archaic. No examples in aozora. The online hits are for an unrelated meaning.

@@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<misc>&arch;</misc>

叩き別け	< 20
叩き分け	799 <- in Daijirin

The quoted references were for different surface forms, and the form proposed was by far the less common one.

@@ -3,0 +4,3 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>叩き分け</keb>
+</k_ele>

daijs https://kotobank.jp/word/叩き別け-560720
daijr https://kotobank.jp/word/叩き分け-320312
nikk https://kotobank.jp/word/叩別-2059488

Adding spec1
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-

@@ -5,0 +6 @@
+<re_pri>spec1</re_pri>

Yes!

@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-<ent_seq>1068160</ent_seq>
-<ent_corp>jmdict</ent_corp>
+<ent_corp>jmnedict</ent_corp>
@@ -11,2 +10,2 @@
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<gloss>skin food</gloss>
+<misc>&company;</misc>
+<gloss>Skin Food</gloss>

It's a korean cosmetic manufacturer. Should this entry be moced to name files?

Added additional dotted reading(s) via batch update.Added additional dotted reading(s) via batch update.
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-

@@ -6,0 +6,3 @@
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>スキン・フード</reb>