@@ -29 +29,2 @@
-<gloss>to be (usu. of inanimate objects)</gloss>
+<s_inf>usu. of inanimate objects</s_inf>
+<gloss>to be</gloss>

Daijr, GG5, etc. n-grams

This was reported in 2007. Sorry it's taken so long to tidy up.

@@ -3,0 +4,6 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>有る</keb>
+<ke_pri>news1</ke_pri>
+<ke_pri>nf23</ke_pri>
+<ke_pri>spec1</ke_pri>
+</k_ele>
@@ -9,5 +14,0 @@
-</k_ele>
-<k_ele>
-<keb>有る</keb>
-<ke_pri>nf23</ke_pri>
-<ke_pri>spec1</ke_pri>
@@ -34,0 +36 @@
+<misc>&uk;</misc>
@@ -39,0 +42 @@
+<misc>&uk;</misc>
@@ -44,0 +48 @@
+<misc>&uk;</misc>
@@ -49,0 +54 @@
+<misc>&uk;</misc>

fixing xref

@@ -26,1 +26,1 @@
-<xref type="see">居る</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="1577980">居る・いる・1</xref>

G n-grams:
泥	1637331
どろ	1075615

gg5 uses kanji in examples

@@ -19 +18,0 @@
-<misc>&uk;</misc>

Google n-grams:
泥	1637331
どろ	1075615
ドロ	820364
下着どろ	190
下着ドロ	10758
下着泥	913
泥棒	1206051
どろぼう	146287
ドロボウ	53531

I think 下着ドロ is a special case. I've looked at WWW hits for ドロ and most of the hits are not for 泥 in the thief sense.

N-Grams
下着どろ	4
下着ドロ	327
下着泥	100

The "thief" meaning tends to be written with katakana.

GG5, 新和英中辞典, ルミナス

@@ -21,0 +21,3 @@
+<gloss>slush</gloss>
+<gloss>(wet) dirt</gloss>
+<gloss>mire</gloss>

daijs & daijr: "水が混じって軟らかくなった土."
新和英中辞典 for example does list "dirt"
google images

I don't think the 国語 definitions go well with "dirt", though 
新和英中辞典 does list it. Google images for "dirt" and "泥" 
also show 2 completely different sets of images.

@@ -19,0 +19,1 @@
+<misc>&uk;</misc>
@@ -21,0 +22,6 @@
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<xref type="see" seq="1599340">泥棒</xref>
+<misc>&abbr;</misc>
+<gloss>thief</gloss>
+</sense>

Should this also be "dirt"?  I've seen it used that way, and looking at http://ejje.weblio.jp/content/どろ, some of the referenced definitions just have "mud" but some have both "mud" and "dirt".

Squillion hits.

@@ -18,0 +18,1 @@
+<pos>&adj-no;</pos>

Conjugates like a adj-ku, rather than a verb.

@@ -16 +16 @@
-<pos>&aux-v;</pos>
+<pos>&adj-ku;</pos>

not a noun...  it conjugates.  助動 in all sources

@@ -16,2 +16 @@
-<pos>&n;</pos>
-<pos>&suf;</pos>
+<pos>&aux-v;</pos>

KM ngrams:
如し	10591
若し	7861   (also もし)
ごとし	7557

@@ -19 +18,0 @@
-<misc>&uk;</misc>

Can't we use "cop" for the PoS here? I don't think the fact that it's a polite form makes it any less of a copula.
I don't think the であります x-ref is needed.

@@ -11 +10,0 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="2255600">であります</xref>

restoring lost xref

@@ -10,0 +11 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="2255600">であります</xref>

we usually treat polite forms of verbs as [exp]

@@ -9 +9 @@
-<pos>&aux;</pos>
+<pos>&exp;</pos>
@@ -11 +11 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="1008340">である</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2255600">であります</xref>

Accepting, but see comments on だ.

GG5, ルミナス

See comments on だ (2089020)

@@ -13,0 +13,1 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="1008340">である</xref>
@@ -15,1 +16,2 @@
-<gloss>to be</gloss>
+<gloss>be</gloss>
+<gloss>is</gloss>

gg5

providing an actual translation, synching with recommended amendment to だ

@@ -13,1 +13,2 @@
-<gloss>polite copula in Japanese</gloss>
+<s_inf>polite copula</s_inf>
+<gloss>to be</gloss>

It has just caught my eye that both [5] and [6] are marked as conjunctions, have similar glosses, and both link back to て. It seems there was both a cross-reference from で to て and one from て to で, and that the previous [4] snatched the one coming て when I raised it to [5].
I shifted them around to circumvent this and have also removed the cross-reference leading from here as it was seemed redundant to have them go both ways.

@@ -32,0 +33,7 @@
+<pos>&prt;</pos>
+<pos>&conj;</pos>
+<s_inf>forms conjunction, compound verb or connects auxiliary; alternative form of 〜て used for some verb types</s_inf>
+<gloss>and</gloss>
+<gloss>then</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
@@ -36,11 +42,0 @@
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&prt;</pos>
-<pos>&conj;</pos>
-<xref type="see" seq="2654270">て</xref>
-<xref type="see" seq="2654270">て・1</xref>
-<xref type="see" seq="2654270">て・1</xref>
-<xref type="see" seq="2654270">て・1</xref>
-<s_inf>forms conjunction, compound verb or connects auxiliary; alternative form of 〜て used for some verb types</s_inf>
-<gloss>and</gloss>
-<gloss>then</gloss>

Approving to match the にて split, then reopening in case we want to consider Nonさん's amendments.

Splitting it out.

@@ -8,4 +7,0 @@
-<r_ele>
-<reb>にて</reb>
-<re_pri>spec1</re_pri>
-</r_ele>
@@ -14 +10 @@
-<s_inf>indicates location of action; にて is the formal literary form</s_inf>
+<s_inf>indicates location of action</s_inf>
@@ -42 +37,0 @@
-<stagr>で</stagr>
@@ -54 +48,0 @@
-<stagr>で</stagr>

I agree with Marcus that にて should be split out. We've moved away from these sorts of merges in recent years.

daijs, daijr
https://kobun.weblio.jp/

で Is itself a contraction of にて, hence the meanings are identical*. I think keeping it in one entry reinforces the notion that they are related and used as alternates of one another - plus it saves the need for an additional entry that would be essentially copy-and-pasted from this one.

*I cannot recall ever seeing にて used for the sense I have just added and indeed upon searching for an example I could not find many. 
Further, that sense is not even listed under the にて entry for the daij's, which at the very least implicates にて is not commonly used for it.

I also went over to the classical Japanese dictionary of the link above, and it seems にて did not originally hold that meaning.
Still, I do not think much would be gained from a split. Worst case scenario, someone will start using にて left right and centre, but even then, they would at most sound odd while still being understood by any native speaker*. 

*Dialectal variation sold separately.

Separate issue but I think we should undo the にて merge. Even if the meaning is identical (I'm not sure whether that's the case or not), it's a different register.

daijr, particularly on（イ）: 〚（２）動作・作用が行われる時を表す。（ア）動作が行われる時期を表す。「では」「でも」の形をとることが多い。「現在―は，簡単に解決する問題だ」（イ）動作・作用の期限・限度を表す。「新幹線は一時間―二百キロも走る」「一〇分間―答えてください」〛

Added a new sense, made it [4] and moved the previous 4th-6th senses up a number. I acknowledge the note is rather long but "quantifies limits of action" by itself seemed too abstract to be informative and I could not devise anything better. Also made minor alterations to 6 as it was misleading: "indicates continuing action" implicates a progressive action, which is not the case here. I still would like to move [6] over to the て entry as another reading.

Anyhow, as justification for the new sense a few sentence fragments:
”あと十人で終わる” = "Will end/(after)  in ten (more) people"
"五分ですべてを話す" = "Speak everything in/within 5 minutes"
"一回で済む" = "Settle/end in one instance" 
”五人で行く”　= "Go in five (people)"
The existing senses cannot properly account for these uses in the manner they are currently distributed and explained, they could be overhauled but I think this use is sufficiently distinct to warrant another sense.

@@ -30,0 +31,6 @@
+<pos>&prt;</pos>
+<s_inf>quantifies limits of action; e.g. time spanned, instances, number of participants, etc.</s_inf>
+<gloss>within</gloss>
+<gloss>in</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
@@ -37 +43,2 @@
-<pos>&aux;</pos>
+<pos>&prt;</pos>
+<pos>&conj;</pos>
@@ -41 +48 @@
-<s_inf>indicates continuing action; alternative form of 〜て used for some verb types</s_inf>
+<s_inf>forms conjunction, compound verb or connects auxiliary; alternative form of 〜て used for some verb types</s_inf>

@@ -39 +39 @@
-<s_inf>indicates continuing action; alternate form of 〜て used for some verb types</s_inf>
+<s_inf>indicates continuing action; alternative form of 〜て used for some verb types</s_inf>

"note-ifying." I'm not sure sense 5 belongs in here.

@@ -14,2 +14 @@
-<s_inf>にて is the formal literary form</s_inf>
-<gloss>indicates location of action</gloss>
+<s_inf>indicates location of action; にて is the formal literary form</s_inf>
@@ -21 +20,3 @@
-<gloss>indicates time of action</gloss>
+<s_inf>indicates time of action</s_inf>
+<gloss>at</gloss>
+<gloss>when</gloss>
@@ -25,2 +26 @@
-<gloss>indicates means of action</gloss>
-<gloss>cause of effect</gloss>
+<s_inf>indicates means of action</s_inf>
@@ -27,0 +28 @@
+<gloss>with</gloss>
@@ -38,2 +39,3 @@
-<s_inf>alternate form of 〜て used for some verb types</s_inf>
-<gloss>indicates continuing action</gloss>
+<s_inf>indicates continuing action; alternate form of 〜て used for some verb types</s_inf>
+<gloss>and</gloss>
+<gloss>then</gloss>
@@ -45 +47 @@
-<s_inf>at sentence-end</s_inf>
+<s_inf>at sentence-end; indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.</s_inf>
@@ -47 +49,2 @@
-<gloss>indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.</gloss>
+<gloss>let me tell you</gloss>
+<gloss>don't you know</gloss>

Proposing merger of にて. See discussion on 2039380.

@@ -7,0 +8,4 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>にて</reb>
+<re_pri>spec1</re_pri>
+</r_ele>
@@ -9,0 +14 @@
+<s_inf>にて is the formal literary form</s_inf>
@@ -29,0 +35 @@
+<stagr>で</stagr>
@@ -35,0 +42 @@
+<stagr>で</stagr>

I agree. That sort of thing is more relevant to a dictionary of grammar and usage.

I don't think　で itself in that sentence has any meaning 
beyond "is". You could say "Carl being Carl" in English 
for example. 

That said, I think "is" could be more explicitly define. 
I mean just like with the -て form there's a suggestion 
of causality/time but basically, doesn't it mean "is x, 
and..." rather than just "and then"?

https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/21167

this entry probably should have ～は～で (also ～も～で) but I'm unsure how to phrase it

please use proper notes when appropriate

@@ -38,0 +38,1 @@
+<s_inf>at sentence-end</s_inf>
@@ -39,1 +40,1 @@
-<gloss>(at sentence end) indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.</gloss>
+<gloss>indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.</gloss>

not really used for request in the same way as　よ
○「来てよ」　×「来てで」

@@ -39,1 +39,1 @@
-<gloss>(at sentence end) indicates certainty, emphasis, contempt, request, etc.</gloss>
+<gloss>(at sentence end) indicates certainty, emphasis, etc.</gloss>

大阪弁普及会
"そうやで"　504,000 results
etc.

@@ -35,0 +35,6 @@
+<sense>
+<pos>&prt;</pos>
+<xref type="see" seq="2029090">よ・1</xref>
+<dial>&ksb;</dial>
+<gloss>(at sentence end) indicates certainty, emphasis, contempt, request, etc.</gloss>
+</sense>

adding a note

@@ -32,0 +32,1 @@
+<s_inf>alternate form of 〜て used for some verb types</s_inf>

Matching 2654270.

@@ -29,0 +29,8 @@
+<sense>
+<pos>&aux;</pos>
+<xref type="see" seq="2654270">て</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2654270">て</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2654270">て</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2654270">て</xref>
+<gloss>indicates continuing action</gloss>
+</sense>

Entry created

I don't think it's indicating a question; it's more of an abbreviation of ですか. (We 
wouldn't split an entry like this.)

I might be wrong but is だ sometimes used to indicate a question？ see  phrases like だれだ？ どこだ？
I see the argument that these are just examples sense 1, "be, is" but I'm not really sure that's the case.
Not for example how だ can not be followed by か (while verbs, na-adjectives, i-adjectives, nouns, can all come before a "か")
e.g. X だれだか？X どこだか？ 
on the other hand X お前だ？  doesn't work as a question. so if it's a "question particle", it's only with interrogatives.
Btw shouldn't senses 2 & 3 be a separate entry, maybe together with た?

@@ -19,2 +19,3 @@
-<s_inf>た after certain verb forms</s_inf>
-<gloss>indicates past or completed action</gloss>
+<s_inf>た after certain verb forms; indicates past or completed action</s_inf>
+<gloss>has</gloss>
+<gloss>have</gloss>
@@ -25 +26,3 @@
-<gloss>indicates light imperative</gloss>
+<s_inf>indicates light imperative</s_inf>
+<gloss>please</gloss>
+<gloss>do</gloss>

Changing POS as per discussion.

@@ -9 +9 @@
-<pos>&aux;</pos>
+<pos>&cop-da;</pos>

Yes, you are seeing a flaw in WWWJDIC as it can't focus xrefs very well. I should try and work in a way of making them more exact. If I ever get the time....

No change to the above, but when I search for "だった" nothing comes up, save that the following is on display:-

だったら (conj) (See だ・1) if it's the case; (P)

As a passing interest, if I click on "だ" in the above, I get back to the main headword above, which is OK.

As a matter of concern, if I click on "た" [both] in the main entry above, I get referred to:-

誰 【だれ(P); たれ(ok); た(ok)】 (pn,adj-no) who; (P)

[At least, it is a concern if my thinking is that I should have been referred to something which told me about the past tense of verbs.]

If, of course, I search down the page, I do find the following:-

た (aux-v) (1) (だ after certain verb forms) (See だ・2) indicate past completed or action; (2) (See だ・3) indicates light imperative

However, when one clicks a link I think that the link should be the first on display without more searching.

What I am suggesting is that there should be an entry for "だった" with a link to the main entry above.

However, as another point, in the main entry above there is no "[V]" link for conjugating so even if I thought that "だった" may be the past for "だ", I would not get confirmation from that link.

I have seen the comments between yourself and Rene about what is a verb or not, but I don't think I should go there in this context.

Well, having taken your time to read the above, I hope that I am correct about "だった" and my other comments.

Okay.  But I think users may be confused why all verbs use 'to' except for です/だ.  (I'm not really clear on why we'd draw the distinction myself.  GG5, of course, does not use "to ..." for any of its verbs.)

GG5, ルミナス

Minor change; removing the "to", which makes it more like the JEs. "to be" sort-of implies it can be conjugated, which I suppose it can in a way. 
I have good friends who are far more learned in Japanese than I will ever be, who will not accept that です or だ are verbs or even copulas (a Latinate grammatical concept.) I think having a translation is better than what was there before.

@@ -10,0 +10,1 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="1008340">である</xref>
@@ -13,1 +14,2 @@
-<gloss>to be</gloss>
+<gloss>be</gloss>
+<gloss>is</gloss>

gg5

providing an actual translation

@@ -11,1 +11,2 @@
-<gloss>plain copula</gloss>
+<s_inf>plain copula</s_inf>
+<gloss>to be</gloss>

Aligning with 2654250.

@@ -13,0 +13,19 @@
+<sense>
+<pos>&aux-v;</pos>
+<xref type="see" seq="2654250">た・1</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2654250">た・1</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2654250">た・1</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2654250">た・1</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2654250">た・1</xref>
+<s_inf>た after certain verb forms</s_inf>
+<gloss>indicates past or completed action</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&aux-v;</pos>
+<xref type="see" seq="2654250">た・2</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2654250">た・2</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2654250">た・2</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2654250">た・2</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2654250">た・2</xref>
+<gloss>indicates light imperative</gloss>
+</sense>

Entry created

Well, my approach to dealing with the additive versus sequential distinction was to add that other sense. Personally, I feel that if distinguishing those two is too much, then we cannot really justify all the other senses, which arguably bear a less important contrast. And if that is so... we might as well just reduce them all to a single sense.
As to the terminology, I am not sure if "additive relation" is immediately intuitive, but probably should be fine given that it is accompanied by a translation.
In any case, my input on how to word this can be found under my older proposal - just scroll down a bit and you will find an obscenely large change log under an edit by Mr. Breen, which was that proposal being reverted. Sadness, sadness.

Now; the reason why I made で a reading and the others not, is because it makes the entry and its notes shorter. 
て and で are the endings of all て forms; so - in theory - one should be able to identify all instances by those endings. Thence my note says "becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ" instead of "becomes いで after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ; becomes んで after 五段 verbs ending in ぬ、ぶ or む". 
Consider also that adding って means that we are missing んで, いで and いて in the readings and notes. Needless to say, the readings might be fine but such notes would end up covering a metric mile - which I am not necessarily against, but I am not the one you will need to convince anyway so...

Regarding your first point, I had that in mind, but I hadn't yet thought of a way to deal with that. I feel like having two senses may be a bit much. 
Perhaps having "indicates sequential or additive relation" works? That should be somewhat clear then with the glosses.
Or maybe "indicates simple conjunction or sequential relation"?

The "forming compound verbs" also checks out.

＞ I also have reverted the term 'subsidiary' to 'auxiliary' as I think the latter is more common and more likely to be immediately understood (plus, it is 1 letter shorter, which will surely make all the difference)
   ＞ I can live with that, it's indeed more common and easier to understand. I prefer to make the distinction (as do the references), but it's not typically done in JMdict AFAICS. 
      Then that xref can also go again

Regarding the attachment note, I agree it's probably better to leave it out here. It'd be more of a matter of formality rather than practicability.
＞ (maybe do something on the 音便形 page and cross reference it here?)
   ＞ I was thinking along these lines as well, but that'd most likely turn out as a very long and windy explanatory gloss.
      I believe this is fine

Since we are at 音便 already, this entry also needs to mention って, as in 知りて ＞ 知って, 立ちて ＞ 立って and 買ゐて＞買って.
I propose just adding that to the note. 

I have added って as a surface form

@@ -9,0 +10,3 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>って</reb>
+</r_ele>
@@ -13 +16 @@
-<s_inf>after the continuative form; indicates sequential relation; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
+<s_inf>indicates sequential relation; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ; って after 五段 verbs ending in る, う or つ</s_inf>
@@ -15 +18 @@
-<gloss>then</gloss>
+<gloss>(and) then</gloss>
@@ -20 +23 @@
-<s_inf>after the continuative form; indicates causal relation; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
+<s_inf>indicates causal relation; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ; って after 五段 verbs ending in る, う or つ</s_inf>
@@ -28 +31 @@
-<s_inf>after the continuative form; indicates instrumental relation; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
+<s_inf>indicates instrumental relation; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ; って after 五段 verbs ending in る, う or つ</s_inf>
@@ -35 +38 @@
-<s_inf>after the continuative form; indicates contrastive relation; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
+<s_inf>indicates contrastive relation; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ; って after 五段 verbs ending in る, う or つ</s_inf>
@@ -42,2 +45 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="1514640">補助動詞</xref>
-<s_inf>after the continuative form; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
+<s_inf>becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ; って after 五段 verbs ending in る, う or つ</s_inf>
@@ -44,0 +47 @@
+<gloss>particle used to form compound verbs (as in やって来る)</gloss>
@@ -49 +52 @@
-<s_inf>at sentence end; indicates request or light imperative; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
+<s_inf>at sentence end; indicates request or light imperative; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ; って after 五段 verbs ending in る, う or つ</s_inf>

Regarding [1]: The conjunction is not necessarily always sequential, it often its, and て has a tendency to chosen over the 連用形 if the relation between the conjuncts is sequential, but it is not restricted to those uses.
The most obvious case is with adjectives: 「黒くて高い」can be freely rephrased as 「高くて黒い」since no sequence is implied. This is why my older proposal had 7 senses as opposed to the current 6 - it had an extra one for the bare, non-sequential conjunction, which was [1].


Regarding compound verbs： I am referring to cases wherein verb + て + verb is analysed as just one verb. This use, like pretty much all others, is rooted in sense 1. Albeit rarer than the 連用形 compounds, it works under the same principles.
For example, 遣って来る, despite clearly being made from やる＋て＋くる、is given its own entry in Daijirin, Daijisen, Shinmeikai and Koujien. In all of these cases, it is listed as a カ変, rather than the expected 連語. There are more entries like this such as 取って代わる.
Perhaps an even better example is 打って変る, whose meaning is not really the sum of its parts.

Regarding the [conj] particle: As briefly mentioned above, pretty much all senses of て are rooted in its role as a conjunctive (which itself is rooted in its origin as the 連用形 of the ancient perfective auxiliary つ), with the exception being senses [5] and [6] of the current proposal wherein it cannot really be analysed as a conjunction - which is why I did not put in the tag and am thus removing it from [5]. 
I also have reverted the term 'subsidiary' to 'auxiliary' as I think the latter is more common and more likely to be immediately understood (plus, it is 1 letter shorter, which will surely make all the difference).

And lastly, stem connection: While the stem for the て form is regarded as being the 連用形 due to the etymological origins of the 音便形 as a sound change of the 連用形 + て, in practice the 音便形 is its own inflection.
As such, writing either 連用形, continuative form, or -masu stem, will not allow a reader to correctly deduce the inflection - instead they would end up producing an inflection right out of Old Japanese, such as 書きて instead of 書いて, etc. - this is why both foreign Japanese textbooks and native Japanese textbooks aimed at foreigners almost unanimously teach it as "て-form" or て形、 as an inflection itself.
I am not sure if there is a good way to convey that in this dictionary (maybe do something on the 音便形 page and cross reference it here?) as this is complicated by the fact that the "音便 stem" involves alteration of the verbal root.
I.e. Kak-, the root 書く, must lose the final k, receive the left-over -i from the 連用形, turn into Ka-i- and only then connect to て - which is unlike the other stems that are all simply concatenated onto the root: Kak-a/i/e/o/u.
Either way, I would drop that part of the note.

@@ -42 +41,0 @@
-<pos>&conj;</pos>
@@ -45 +44 @@
-<gloss>particle used to connect to subsidiary verbs (as in て-いる, て-いく, etc.)</gloss>
+<gloss>particle used to connect to auxiliary verbs (as in て-いる, て-いく, etc.)</gloss>

(See also Shinsen's entry for this, I can't add it here right now due to the issue described below)

Progressive 4：
－て

1〔事を終えて次に連続する意〕and
私は朝食を済ませて出掛けた
I had my breakfast and went out.／After finishing my breakfast, I went out.

2〔原因・理由を表す〕
重くて持ち上がらない
It's so heavy (that) I can't lift it.／It's too heavy for me to lift.
うれしくて飛び上がった
I jumped for joy.

3〔手段・方法を表す〕
フランス語を教えて生計を立てている
She earns her living by giving lessons in French.

4〔…のに〕
知っていて黙っていた
He knew about it, but he did not tell me.／Although he knew, he didn't tell me.

5〔軽い命令を表す〕
やめて
Stop it.

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Firstly, I intended to submit my draft for this entry in this comment box at the bottom instead of outright changing all you have proposed (which I do agree with). 
However, when then attempting to submit that I get the error "The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity limit for this server.", which I haven't encountered so far.

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＞ As I am editing this, [3] Is being shown as "[prt][col]" in the preview instead of "[prt,col]" despite having been formatted like the latter [...]
I reckon that is because they belong to different tag classes. [prt] belongs to the POS tags, while [col] is a misc tag.

＞ I fear that might lead a reader to believe that said note applies only to [1], which would be misleading.
I fear so too
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Being a (relatively) new contributor to JMdict, I've never really looked at this entry, but I absolutely agree that the former version is very much insufficient. 
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Also, I see that you've brought up the point about 接続助詞 below. The good news is that a [conj-prt] tag will most likely arrive in the near future, as I've raised that topic in the github issues.

Could you elaborate on sense 2 "particle used to form compound verbs"? I don't quite see that in references, since it's usually the bare 連用形 used for this purpose.

Stem attachment information tends to be included. However, adding the typical "after the -masu stem of a verb" doesn't suffice here. Perhaps "After the continuative form" is appropriate.
   連用形 and the likes are typically not used in sense notes in JMdict. Note that "continuative form" is searchable in JMdict and leads directly to the entry for 連用形.

The references I consulted (Shinsen, Sankoku, Daijirin) class the current sense 2 as "接続助詞" as well, so I added [conj] for now.

I see that the support has previously been lacking, but I believe that having separate senses for the different uses of the conjunctive aspect is necessary. 
   Compare shinsen above, which is quite neat, but not achievable in JMdict in that fashion.  
   I would argue that the entries for the most used "words" (items would be better), deserve the most care, i.e. specificity. And that does take time in some cases
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Thus I propose something along the lines of this (subject to refinement)

@@ -13 +13 @@
-<s_inf>joins two sentences; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
+<s_inf>after the continuative form; indicates sequential relation; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
@@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<gloss>then</gloss>
@@ -18,2 +19,27 @@
-<s_inf>becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
-<gloss>particle used to connect auxiliary verbs or to form compound verbs</gloss>
+<pos>&conj;</pos>
+<s_inf>after the continuative form; indicates causal relation; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
+<gloss>because (of)</gloss>
+<gloss>so</gloss>
+<gloss>since</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&prt;</pos>
+<pos>&conj;</pos>
+<s_inf>after the continuative form; indicates instrumental relation; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
+<gloss>through (that)</gloss>
+<gloss>by</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&prt;</pos>
+<pos>&conj;</pos>
+<s_inf>after the continuative form; indicates contrastive relation; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
+<gloss>although</gloss>
+<gloss>but</gloss>
+<gloss>(and) yet</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&prt;</pos>
+<pos>&conj;</pos>
+<xref type="see" seq="1514640">補助動詞</xref>
+<s_inf>after the continuative form; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
+<gloss>particle used to connect to subsidiary verbs (as in て-いる, て-いく, etc.)</gloss>
@@ -24 +50 @@
-<s_inf>at sentence end; used to make a request; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
+<s_inf>at sentence end; indicates request or light imperative; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>

Well, I did say that they were there to be picked out, and that only [1], [6] and [7] were strictly necessary. I still stand by what I said that this entry cannot stay like this, so, let us try that.
Repeating the note on で in every sense might be unneeded, maybe remove it from [2] and [3], leaving it only on [1]. However, I fear that might lead a reader to believe that said note applies only to [1], which would be misleading. Really wish we had notes that went over the entire glossary...

As I am editing this, [3] Is being shown as "[prt][col]" in the preview instead of "[prt,col]" despite having been formatted like the latter, hopefully it will actually be like that when I submit it, but if it does not, I do not know why it is like this.

@@ -6,0 +7,3 @@
+<r_ele>
+<reb>で</reb>
+</r_ele>
@@ -8,3 +11,15 @@
-<pos>&aux;</pos>
-<s_inf>で after certain verb forms</s_inf>
-<gloss>indicates continuing action</gloss>
+<pos>&prt;</pos>
+<pos>&conj;</pos>
+<s_inf>joins two sentences; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
+<gloss>and</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&prt;</pos>
+<s_inf>becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
+<gloss>particle used to connect auxiliary verbs or to form compound verbs</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&prt;</pos>
+<misc>&col;</misc>
+<s_inf>at sentence end; used to make a request; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
+<gloss>please (do)</gloss>

This long edit obviously is not getting any support. I'm switching it back to the predecessor, but leaving Non's suggestions visible. I found it to be far to detailed and complex to be a useful entry.

@@ -7,3 +6,0 @@
-<r_ele>
-<reb>で</reb>
-</r_ele>
@@ -11,39 +8,6 @@
-<pos>&prt;</pos>
-<pos>&conj;</pos>
-<s_inf>joins two sentences; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
-<gloss>and</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&prt;</pos>
-<pos>&conj;</pos>
-<s_inf>connects sentences in order of occurrence</s_inf>
-<gloss>and (then)</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&prt;</pos>
-<pos>&conj;</pos>
-<s_inf>connects sentences in causal relation</s_inf>
-<gloss>and (because of that)</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&prt;</pos>
-<pos>&conj;</pos>
-<s_inf>connects sentences in instrumental relation; preceding sentence is means by which following sentence takes place</s_inf>
-<gloss>and (through that)...</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&prt;</pos>
-<pos>&conj;</pos>
-<s_inf>forms contrastive conjunction</s_inf>
-<gloss>but...</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&prt;</pos>
-<xref type="see" seq="1577980">いる・3</xref>
-<gloss g_type="expl">used to connect to auxiliary verbs or to form compound verbs</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&prt;</pos>
-<misc>&col;</misc>
-<s_inf>at sentence end</s_inf>
-<gloss g_type="expl">used to make a request</gloss>
+<pos>&aux;</pos>
+<xref type="see" seq="2028980">で・5</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2028980">で・5</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2028980">で・5</xref>
+<s_inf>で after certain verb forms</s_inf>
+<gloss>indicates continuing action</gloss>

I made somewhat of a revision of my proposal. As this has been drifting for months and nobody seems to want to touch it, I would like to highlight that I was not saying all these senses are needed, I made them in bulk so that an editor could pick them out if needed - the entry could be reduced to only [1], [6] and [7].

At any rate, I think the earlier versions of this unapproved entry should be closed, at least.

@@ -13,2 +13,2 @@
-<s_inf>forms plain conjunction; 1-7 become ～で after godan verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
-<gloss>and...</gloss>
+<s_inf>joins two sentences; becomes で after 五段 verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
+<gloss>and</gloss>
@@ -20 +20 @@
-<gloss>and then...</gloss>
+<gloss>and (then)</gloss>
@@ -26 +26 @@
-<gloss>and because of that...</gloss>
+<gloss>and (because of that)</gloss>
@@ -31,2 +31,2 @@
-<s_inf>connects sentences in instrumental relation</s_inf>
-<gloss>and through that... (preceding sentence is the means by which following sentence takes place)</gloss>
+<s_inf>connects sentences in instrumental relation; preceding sentence is means by which following sentence takes place</s_inf>
+<gloss>and (through that)...</gloss>
@@ -43 +43 @@
-<gloss g_type="expl">used to connect verbs to auxiliary verbs or to form compound verbs</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="expl">used to connect to auxiliary verbs or to form compound verbs</gloss>
@@ -48 +48 @@
-<s_inf>used at sentence end</s_inf>
+<s_inf>at sentence end</s_inf>

Proposing adding で to readings to go along with the proposal of deleting the sense of the cross-reference leading here.

@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>で</reb>

daijr, daijs

Changed [aux] to [prt] as it is classed as a 接続助詞. Completely changing glossary as "Indicates continuing action" will likely lead anyone learning of this word through this entry to think of a continuous verb rather than a conjunction.
Senses are based on the references listed, mainly daijr, they are not absolutely exhaustive but these should be the main ones. I opted to make [1] what it is as most other senses can be imposed upon it by context.

If accepted, I would like to suggest deleting the 5th sense of the entry on ～で that leads here: it is same word and the changes to notes in this entry should make it unnecessary.

@@ -8,4 +8,39 @@
-<pos>&aux;</pos>
-<xref type="see" seq="2028980">で・5</xref>
-<s_inf>で after certain verb forms</s_inf>
-<gloss>indicates continuing action</gloss>
+<pos>&prt;</pos>
+<pos>&conj;</pos>
+<s_inf>forms plain conjunction; 1-7 become ～で after godan verbs ending in ぐ, む, ぶ or ぬ</s_inf>
+<gloss>and...</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&prt;</pos>
+<pos>&conj;</pos>
+<s_inf>connects sentences in order of occurrence</s_inf>
+<gloss>and then...</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&prt;</pos>
+<pos>&conj;</pos>
+<s_inf>connects sentences in causal relation</s_inf>
+<gloss>and because of that...</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&prt;</pos>
+<pos>&conj;</pos>
+<s_inf>connects sentences in instrumental relation</s_inf>
+<gloss>and through that... (preceding sentence is the means by which following sentence takes place)</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&prt;</pos>
+<pos>&conj;</pos>
+<s_inf>forms contrastive conjunction</s_inf>
+<gloss>but...</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&prt;</pos>
+<xref type="see" seq="1577980">いる・3</xref>
+<gloss g_type="expl">used to connect verbs to auxiliary verbs or to form compound verbs</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&prt;</pos>
+<misc>&col;</misc>
+<s_inf>used at sentence end</s_inf>
+<gloss g_type="expl">used to make a request</gloss>

@@ -9,1 +9,1 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="2028980">で</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2028980">で・5</xref>

I wonder about the "aux". UniDic has "助詞,接続助詞" for this. I guess "aux" covers a multitude of sins.

@@ -9,0 +9,2 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="2028980">で</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2028980">で</xref>
@@ -10,1 +12,1 @@
-<gloss>used to indicate continuing action</gloss>
+<gloss>indicates continuing action</gloss>

actually, come to think of it, れる and られる could be merged with a note.  they're already sufficiently well-documented.

they have to be merged because one is merely an alternate pronunciation of the other that occurs with certain verb forms. れる and られる are clearly more divergent than て and で.

in addition, there is already an existing entry for で, and we try to avoid having entries with identical headword/reading combos.

@@ -7,3 +7,0 @@
-<r_ele>
-<reb>で</reb>
-</r_ele>
@@ -12,0 +9,1 @@
+<s_inf>で after certain verb forms</s_inf>

If these 2 needs to be merged as RENE suggested, I have no 
idea why れる・られる　or せる・させる are not merged.

All these require to follow complicated conjugation rule but 
the same word for each.

Criteria for an entity is a bit unclear.

@@ -6,0 +6,3 @@
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>で</reb>

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/助詞
http://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/て

used with -masu stem verbs except for v5g, v5n, v5b, v5m

@@ -6,0 +7 @@
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>

daijr

@@ -3,0 +4,4 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>耶路撒冷</keb>
+<ke_inf>&ateji;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
@@ -11,0 +16 @@
+<misc>&uk;</misc>

G n-grams:
イェルサレム	6950
エルサレム	263129
Daijr has イェルサレム pointing to エルサレム, but the others only have エルサレム.

JMnedict has 7 versions.

capital (albeit controversially so) → jmdict

Daijr

Text glossing is currently matching on the name 二穴 【ふたあな】 (p,s) Futaana

@@ -12 +12 @@
-<gloss>ninth level (martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)</gloss>
+<gloss>ninth level (of a practitioner; in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)</gloss>

Degree does not sound right for this term - at least in shogi where it's a rank.

@@ -12 +12 @@
-<gloss>ninth degree (martial arts, go, shoji, etc.)</gloss>
+<gloss>ninth level (martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)</gloss>

Daijisen

Broader.

@@ -12,2 +12 @@
-<field>&MA;</field>
-<gloss>ninth-degree black belt</gloss>
+<gloss>ninth degree (martial arts, go, shoji, etc.)</gloss>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_(rank)

always wondering how to pronounce this (for othello players). can't quickly find another source.

I don't see a need for this. We wouldn't have entries for other combinations of particles like からの, までの, からへ, etc.

In the ngrams listed, "life in tokyo" etc. seems like better translations than "life that is in Tokyo".
には and よね have the PoS [exp, prt].　では on the other hand doesn't. (No surprise that we aren't consistent).

@@ -9,2 +9,2 @@
-<gloss>that is in</gloss>
-<gloss>that is at</gloss>
+<gloss>(that is) in</gloss>
+<gloss>(that is) at</gloss>

Could you elaborate on what other discussion you hope to find? As the person on the second yahoo link said, it is just genitive の glued onto で in order to use it attributively.
I have changed the tag to [exp] and added to the glosses as 'in/at' by themselves do not properly convey that this modifies a noun.

@@ -8,3 +8,3 @@
-<pos>&prt;</pos>
-<gloss>in</gloss>
-<gloss>at</gloss>
+<pos>&exp;</pos>
+<gloss>that is in</gloss>
+<gloss>that is at</gloss>

Top 10 N-grams Lookup for 東京での (Frequency Order)
東京での	275916	  
東京での生活	16639	  
東京でのライブ	8789	  
東京での仕事	7386	  
東京でのお	4940	  
東京での放映	4016	  
東京での開催	3980	  
東京での放映も	3861	  
東京での生活を	3336	  
東京でのイベント	3246	  
東京での一人暮らし	3238	  

https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q12156839427
この「で」は「に（場所）」+「て（提示）」の転訛です。

「にて」
意味：において
・日本での意味＝日本語にての意味＝日本語においての意味。
・会社での役割＝会社にての役割＝会社においての役割。

https://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q10287194410
Q: 「への」「での」「との」は、複合助詞とは言わないんだ。辞書にも、その形では載ってないね。
単に、「へ」「で」「と」という助詞が、後ろにある名詞につながるために、「の」とくっついてると、それだけのことか。

でも、なんだろ…もう少しちゃんとした説明が欲しいな？
A: 定義によりますが、複合助詞は「にあたって」「とともに」など、動詞や名詞を含む複数の語が結びついて一つの助詞として働くものです。

「への」などは元から助詞であるものの連語ということでしょう。

https://www.japanistry.com/particle-combinations/

I'm having a hard time finding much discussion of the word online.

(nikk has two senses that seem to be archaic and unrelated to this use)

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

さてと	288510
Tanaka sentence

Please provide references/examples

@@ -9,5 +9,3 @@
-<gloss>Well then...</gloss>
-</sense>
-<sense>
-<pos>&exp;</pos>
-<gloss>Now, let’s see</gloss>
+<gloss>well then...</gloss>
+<gloss>well now ...</gloss>
+<gloss>now, let’s see</gloss>