Disputatio:Mercury

Dialect pronunciations are a tough thing. In general it might be better to list American, British, and Australian pronunciations separately, as they can't always be as easily superimposed as they may be for this word, especially where r and the low back vowels are concerned. A couple of things:

I wouldn't put ɹ in phonemic slashes for any kind of English—generally simpler symbols are used when possible.
I generally go with an IPAfied version of SAMPA.
Dialect-based phonematizations are probably preferable due to NPOV issues ("you're saying I should have an /r/ in this word?"—compare the fate of the so-called “Well-Enunciated American English” on en:).

So i would rather something like...

Appellatio[+/-]

/ˈmɜːkjəri/ (Britannice)
/ˈmɝkjəri/ (Americane)

...with whatever degree of phonetic representation you like, especially those that aren't immediately obvious, e.g.

/ˈmɝkjəri/ [ˈmɝkʰj(ə)ɻi] (Americane)

appendix: vowels of various dialects

American:	ɪ ɛ æ ɑ (ɔ) ʌ ʊ i e u o aɪ ɔɪ aʊ ə ɝ ɚ
British:	ɪ ɛ æ ɑː ɒ ʌ ʊ iː eɪ uː əʊ ɔː aɪ ɔɪ aʊ ə ɜː ɪə eə uə i u
Australian:	ɪ e æ ɐː ɔ ɐ ʊ iː æɪ ʉː əʉ oː ɑe ɔɪ æɔ ə ɜː ɪə eː ʊə

...british following sampa; american following sampa, with all mergers; Australian following Harrington. Similar as they may look, I understand that the difference between them is intractable, and that the correspondences between vowels otherwise apparently similar doesn't always hold up. —Myces Tiberinus 05:25 nov 12, 2004 (UTC)

Rightio. I'll stick to adding Australian pronunciations, since that's what I know best. And if I can manage to get my hands on a mic, I might even upload some recording.. --Vladisdead 08:22 nov 12, 2004 (UTC)

Cool if you can do it :) Not sure if you know about it yet but the page where the gathering of pronunciations for wiktionary is being coordinated is commons:Commons:Pronunciation files requests.

Actually, I'd like to vary from the standard a bit. There's a long æ, æː or æə, which is phonemic. SAMPA for American English recommends it be written /E@/ or /e@/, but Harrington doesn't have it. --Vladisdead 08:31 nov 12, 2004 (UTC)

All right. —Myces Tiberinus 15:03 nov 12, 2004 (UTC)