掲示板 Forums - [Discussion] Community Project - new grammar entries in the library

So, I will (at a rate of 2-3 a month) get requests from users to add more grammar entries to renshuu's library. We've already got close to 1,000, but there's no end to grammar!

I had hoped to clean out that list periodically and add them myself, but life and the rest of renshuu has kept me from doing that, and I have requests that are over a year old :(.

I'm wondering if there is any interest from the intermediate/advanced learners to help me in crowdsourcing the information we need for the new entries? I would do a final check on all content (and native checks on any Japanese content), so it would not be straight user-to-publication.

Here's an example of a user submission:

JPN: とて

Other: 名詞について、それも例外ではなく他と同じであることを表します。

even [noun] is not an exception

Now, from this, in order to turn it into a full submission, I need the following

Grammar title (which is usually the basic phrase, so pretty easy)

Main meaning + possible secondary info: these are the first two lines of text here. Main is "While A, B", and secondary it the sentence below that:

JLPT Level:

Grammar syntax. I use a specific set of coding that is fairly easy to copy/paste, but in this case, it would be

[N] とて

(Often, an expression will have multiple ones to cover adjectives, verbs, different particle usage, etc.)

Model sentences (at least 2):

These cannot be taken from anywhere else. Usually, Saki will come up with these, but if we go through this project, we'd want to come up with our own (English and Japanese), and they'd be followed by a check on both the English and Japanese by Saki and myself. They absolutely must be original sentences, though.

Advanced notes (if needed) - any paragraph level discussions.

If there is interest in the community to help with this, I'll set up an excel sheet online that we can collaborate on. It would require non-anonymous logins to google sheets so we can contributions, but I'd like to see if this is something that others want to help with.

Oops I didn't see this when I submitted an entry the other day.

I would like to add some grammar points from Tobira textbook. Do we have to re-phrase the explanations due to copyright?

I'd definitely be interested to join in on a collaborative sheet.