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= January 2011 = == [[rule of three]], [[Rule of Three]] == I noticed that the Wicca definition was on both pages, I am thinking it should probably only be on the Rule of Three page. Thoughts? - {{User:TheDaveRoss/sig}} 20:34, 7 January 2011 (UTC) :[[Citations:rule of three]] contains both "rule of three" and "Rule of Three" as meaning the Wiccan tenet, so the existence of that definition on both pages seems natural. Another reasonable alternative would be defining one of these entries as an "Alternative spelling of..." --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 21:05, 7 January 2011 (UTC) :: As a rule I don't trust usenet cites to evaluate accurate capitalization, there are probably more "george bush"es than "George Bush"es, as an example. For discerning meaning usenet can be helpful, for proper grammar it is mostly useless. Do Wiccan texts and edited works use one over the other? - {{User:TheDaveRoss/sig}} 21:47, 7 January 2011 (UTC) :::I, differently, trust Usenet cites to evaluate accurate capitalization if and only if the writers in question use accurate capitalization in the rest of their texts, particularly if these texts are long. :::My personal analysis is that the orthography of the current citations of [[Citations:rule of three]] is trustworthy. :::In addition, after a quick search by Google Books, I noticed that both capitalizations appear on multiple books. The poem "Ever mind the rule of three, what you give out comes back to thee." appears in various books with this capitalization, while Rule of Three is also common. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 23:03, 7 January 2011 (UTC) == Inflection > Headword line == [[Wiktionary:Votes/2010-12/Renaming categories for inflection or headword templates]] has passed. Could you update {{temp|tempcatboiler}} to accept the new naming system? --[[User:Yair rand|Yair rand]] ([[User talk:Yair rand|talk]]) 01:01, 13 January 2011 (UTC) :Sure. Done. I also created [[:Category:English headword-line templates]] with that template. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 01:39, 13 January 2011 (UTC) = February 2011 = == prefixcat == Two years ago, you created {{temp|prefixcat}} and [[:Category:English words prefixed with pre-]]. The entry [[pre-]] is four years older and contains a list of words having this prefix. The category links to the entry, but the entry doesn't link to the category. Shouldn't it? Are there any good examples for how to do this? --[[User:LA2|LA2]] 00:35, 2 February 2011 (UTC) :You can use {{temp|prefixsee}}. --[[User:Yair rand|Yair rand]] ([[User talk:Yair rand|talk]]) 00:38, 2 February 2011 (UTC) ::Wonderful. Thanks! --[[User:LA2|LA2]] 09:26, 2 February 2011 (UTC) == More topical category trees == Yes, I think everything should be in all parent categories as well as its own category. If that makes "overcrowded" categories, well, that's just an issue of how the software displays them on a screen; we'd need to find a better way to display them, splitting the items into many pages, or using a zoom feature, etc. The categories will be accurate, i.e. everything in each category really belongs to it. (Think of taxonomies: if I'm a ''Felis silvestris'' then I am a ''Felis''. Yes, the top levels like ''Plantae'' may hold thousands or millions of items, but that's valid, and pernickety software restrictions shouldn't change the categorisation.) [[User:Equinox|Equinox]] [[User_talk:Equinox|◑]] 20:55, 2 February 2011 (UTC) == [[Start]] et al. == My main question is why would this be [[Start]] and not [[start]]? [[User:Mglovesfun|Mglovesfun]] ([[User talk:Mglovesfun|talk]]) 16:28, 3 February 2011 (UTC) :It is [[Start]] because I've attested [[Citations:Start]]. Why not [[start]] too? --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 16:45, 3 February 2011 (UTC) == {{temp|list}} == The list template doesn't appear to be able to take more than 40 syn parameters (See {{temp|list:Latin script letters/hu}}). Would you be able to fix this? --[[User:Yair rand|Yair rand]] ([[User talk:Yair rand|talk]]) 07:57, 7 February 2011 (UTC) :Yes, done. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 14:10, 7 February 2011 (UTC) == Entries with no definition == What is the point in adding loads of entries with no definition. Why not just add an entry to [[:Wiktionary:Requested entries (English)]]? [[User:SemperBlotto|SemperBlotto]] 19:33, 9 February 2011 (UTC) :I don't see much difference between mentioning undefined English terms as new entries or as items of [[Wiktionary:Requested entries (English)]], except the fact that creating and formatting these entries is a natural part of this work that ought to be done sooner or later. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 19:42, 9 February 2011 (UTC) ::The difference is that you get a blue link for an entry with no definition, and a red link if it's only in the wanted list. [[User:SemperBlotto|SemperBlotto]] 19:48, 9 February 2011 (UTC) :::Both the ability to turn all links to a page into red text and the existence of that page as a member of [[:Category:Definitionless terms]] are pretty good ways to show that a term is not defined yet. The latter is particularly more likely to be found by people, especially because my entries with {{temp|rfdef}} are not linked very much from other pages. :::Ah, we also have [[café noir]] as a blue link but without an English section... Until I created that section seconds ago. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 20:09, 9 February 2011 (UTC) :::: I think you should avoid creating entries with no definition. A minimum entry should contain a definition. --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 22:16, 9 February 2011 (UTC) :::::Well, surely I am already avoiding creating entries with no definition; if I remember correctly, I barely added {{temp|rfdef}} into one hundred entries in 2011, and approximately 0 in previous years. And, differently from what you said, Dan, a minimum entry may be definitionless and contain categories, inflections, a link to Wikipedia perhaps... as long as it is expected to have a good, simple, and preferably uncontroversial sense in the future. I try never using {{temp|rfdef}} to ask for controversial definitions such as place names or anything from fiction. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 00:33, 10 February 2011 (UTC) ::::::I sometimes, rarely, create entries with no definition, but only if there is something that can help other editors to define it, like a citation or two, or three, pronunciation, etymology. For an entry to be better than nothing it can't have no definition and no other linguistic information at all. [[User:Mglovesfun|Mglovesfun]] ([[User talk:Mglovesfun|talk]]) 01:05, 10 February 2011 (UTC) == [[Coke]] == I'm pretty sure this can also refer to soft drinks other than Coca-Cola... --[[User:Yair rand|Yair rand]] ([[User talk:Yair rand|talk]]) 11:24, 15 February 2011 (UTC) :As a "by extension" sense, maybe. Anyway, we should have a sense of "Coke" meaning "Coca-Cola". For an example of this usage, see this: [http://books.google.com/books?id=wUB9cczGxiAC&pg=PA43&dq=%22coke+or+pepsi%22&hl=pt-BR&ei=b2NaTZPmGYfrgQefgtnmDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22coke%20or%20pepsi%22&f=false] --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 11:32, 15 February 2011 (UTC) == [[obrigado]] == I'm pretty sure that [http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=obrigado&action=historysubmit&diff=11307539&oldid=9008800 this edit] is wrong. Can you confirm? —'''[[User:Internoob|Internoob]]''' ([[User talk:Internoob|Disc]]•[[Special:Contributions/Internoob|Cont]]) 03:06, 18 February 2011 (UTC) :This edit is definitely wrong, so I reverted it. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 03:10, 18 February 2011 (UTC) == symbcatboiler/theList == {{temp|langcatboiler}} seems to still transclude {{temp|symbcatboiler/theList}}, despite it not existing anymore. --[[User:Yair rand|Yair rand]] ([[User talk:Yair rand|talk]]) 00:01, 28 February 2011 (UTC) :Yes, {{temp|langcatboiler}} was still transcluding {{temp|symbcatboiler/theList}}. It isn't anymore. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 11:50, 2 March 2011 (UTC) = March 2011 = == [[Template talk:pt-noun/new]] == What would you do with this? I'd prefer like {{temp|fr-noun}} that it always gives a plural by default, and it always gives the feminine plural when the feminine is specified. The way I've currently done it is ugly; in fact I've just spotted a 'bug' that could be solved with even more #if: expressions, but I'd rather not solve it that way, but rather in the way I've given above. [[User:Mglovesfun|Mglovesfun]] ([[User talk:Mglovesfun|talk]]) 11:10, 2 March 2011 (UTC) :The code can be found at [[Template:es-noun/new]], simply changing es to pt and Spanish to Portuguese. [[User:Mglovesfun|Mglovesfun]] ([[User talk:Mglovesfun|talk]]) 11:25, 2 March 2011 (UTC) ::I basically like this template and how it makes easier to type plurals with -s or -es. ::I've fixed a link that was pointing to [[:Category:Portuguese adjectives]]. ::However, the book Moderna Gramática Portuguesa, by Evanildo Bechara, is a well-known book and an authority on Portuguese grammar, and it specifically affirms that nouns of that language don't have inflected forms, only derivations, to address different genders (37th edition, page 132). In the absence of opposing views, I propose removing the parameters for feminine forms, or at least never using them by now. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 06:02, 4 March 2011 (UTC) :::Masculine nouns can have feminine equivalents. I don't think we should be removing information that is both lexical and useful to the reader. [[User:Mglovesfun|Mglovesfun]] ([[User talk:Mglovesfun|talk]]) 14:10, 4 March 2011 (UTC) ::::Feminine equivalents would be antonyms or hyponyms of masculine nouns, like in English. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 17:38, 4 March 2011 (UTC) == [[Template:headtempboiler:suffix]] == This templates using this aren't categorizing entries. --[[User:Yair rand|Yair rand]] ([[User talk:Yair rand|talk]]) 00:33, 4 March 2011 (UTC) :No, they are. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 06:05, 4 March 2011 (UTC) ::I can't find the standard {lang} suffixes categories in the entries that use it. Note that {{temp|en-suffix}} isn't using this anymore... --[[User:Yair rand|Yair rand]] ([[User talk:Yair rand|talk]]) 14:03, 4 March 2011 (UTC) :::The entry [[-mente]] is categorized into [[:Category:Portuguese suffixes]] by {{temp|pt-suffix}}. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 17:40, 4 March 2011 (UTC) :::: It looks like it's only capable of categorizing when <tt>option=masculine_feminine_singular_plural</tt>; so it works for Portuguese, but not for English. —[[User: Ruakh |Ruakh]]<sub ><small ><i >[[User talk: Ruakh |TALK]]</i ></small ></sub > 18:29, 4 March 2011 (UTC) :::::I believe it ''would'' work for English as well, because <tt><nowiki>|#default=[[Category:{{langname/cat|{{{lang|}}}}} suffixes|{{#if:{{{2|}}}|{{{2}}}|{{PAGENAME}}}}]]</nowiki></tt>, but there isn't any English template that uses {{temp|headtempboiler:suffix}}. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 18:53, 4 March 2011 (UTC) :::::: As Yair said, {{temp|en-suffix}} was using it, but had to be changed, because the categorization wasn't happening. We're not just speaking theoretically here. (I ''think'' the code-snippet that you just listed is nested within the wrong number of <tt><nowiki>{{#switch:</nowiki></tt>es, so doesn't do what you think.) —[[User: Ruakh |Ruakh]]<sub ><small ><i >[[User talk: Ruakh |TALK]]</i ></small ></sub > 19:25, 4 March 2011 (UTC) :::::::You was right, Ruakh, there was a bug of switches. I've fixed it, so {{temp|headtempboiler:suffix}} became able to categorize English suffixes properly. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 20:41, 4 March 2011 (UTC) == [[template:alternative form of]] == Since you've converted this to use deftempboiler, it's opaque. (That is, one used to be able to look at the source code of the template and see what the parameters did, so documentation wasn't quite as necessary as it is now.) Please fix the template or add its documentation.<span class="Unicode">​—[[User:Msh210|msh210]]℠</span> ([[user talk:Msh210|talk]]) 17:26, 25 March 2011 (UTC) :Well, you ''can'' still look at the source code to see what the parameters are. Anyway, OK, I'll try to remember to make a documentation within the next few days. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 14:29, 31 March 2011 (UTC) == Protecting old vote pages? == Why? There are plenty of good reasons to edit old vote pages. I don't think they should be protected. —[[User: Ruakh |Ruakh]]<sub ><small ><i >[[User talk: Ruakh |TALK]]</i ></small ></sub > 14:23, 31 March 2011 (UTC) :My personal interpretation is that presumably the 17 old vote pages that I protected would be easy targets of unwanted edits if the proposal of [[WT:BP#Sourced policies]] is implemented. The additional proposal of protecting them was introduced in that very discussion. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 14:27, 31 March 2011 (UTC) :: Unwanted edits can be reverted. Those pages are not policy, they're just informative. —[[User: Ruakh |Ruakh]]<sub ><small ><i >[[User talk: Ruakh |TALK]]</i ></small ></sub > 14:30, 31 March 2011 (UTC) :::OK. From your participation in that BP discussion, I see you want to unprotect them. [[be my guest|Be my guest]]. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 14:33, 31 March 2011 (UTC) :::: Thanks. Sorry for commenting here before there; I saw the protections before I saw your comment there. By the way, I should add — the reason that WT:CFI etc. are protected is because editors were making ''sensible'' changes, and we have a rule that even sensible changes are forbidden. They weren't targets of vandalism, or anything like that. So I don't think it's likely that the votes that they link to will be targets of vandalism, either. But if one or more of them do become targets of vandalism, then sure, we can protect them at that point. (Or, more likely, semiprotect them.) —[[User: Ruakh |Ruakh]]<sub ><small ><i >[[User talk: Ruakh |TALK]]</i ></small ></sub > 14:35, 31 March 2011 (UTC) = April 2011 = == In case you're still looking for more types of categories to template-ify... == ...the subcategories of [[:Category:Requests for audio pronunciation]] still don't have a template, and it would be helpful if they did, IMO. --[[User:Yair rand|Yair rand]] 00:47, 4 April 2011 (UTC) :Done. Enjoy. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 02:28, 5 April 2011 (UTC) == symbcatboiler categorizing bug == {{temp|symbcatboiler}} is categorizing incorrectly on [[:Category:American Sign Language symbols]]. --[[User:Yair rand|Yair rand]] 05:15, 5 April 2011 (UTC) :Fixed. Its parent is [[:Category:American Sign Language]] rather than "Category:American Sign Language language" now. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 17:45, 3 May 2011 (UTC) == Poll subsections == Please do not add subsections to a poll that I have created. I dislike the subsections in your polls, but there I do not remove them. --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 10:20, 6 April 2011 (UTC) :I see. Sorry for adding the subsections to the poll that you have created. I won't alter the design of your polls in this manner again until further discussion. I may, however, formally ask for multiple opinions of the community about this subject, to know if there is a format more comfortable for everyone, and then expect it to be applied if possible. I, personally, just find a little harder to spot the right place to edit when a poll is big and subsectionless. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 11:36, 6 April 2011 (UTC) :: I acknowledge that finding the right place to place your vote is a bit harder in a poll without subsections. But there are also significant benefits to avoiding subsections. The L3 headings of the subsections are too conspicuous in the table of contents. Without L3 headings, each poll takes only a single line in the table of contents. Furthermore, the way you design the subheadings, each L3 heading repeats the heading of the poll, and is immediately followed by a longer text in boldface, which introduces a lot of redundancy and a typographically busy page. Using only text in boldface makes it possible to make a longer statement of an option, a statement that would be too long in an L3 heading. --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 12:07, 6 April 2011 (UTC) == Sequences of edits == Would you consider reducing the number of edits when creating a new entry, such as in Wikisaurus:fictional character, which has been created in 16 edits? I was making needlessly many subsequent edits for a long time, but I have been trying to reduce the number of edits recently. One thing is, the revision history gets longer. Another thing is, each revision is stored as a new copy in the database, so Wikisaurus:fictional character now has some 9 kB. The latter consideration is one on which most people have already given up, I guess; Beer parlour is crazy in this regard. Anyway, this is just a hint at what I think would be an improvement of practice; slowing down a bit could save you several edits, so the number could get down to 5 to 7 in WS:fictional character. IOW, not a big deal. --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 09:22, 15 April 2011 (UTC) :That page probably doesn't have some 9kB, because it's compressed. Nonetheless, yes. I surely can avoid making needless streaks of subsequent edits. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 16:47, 15 April 2011 (UTC) :: When you download a compressed dump with revision history and uncompress it, you get the uncompressed size on the disk, with each revision stored as a copy rather than as a diff. --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 17:08, 15 April 2011 (UTC) == Wikisaurus:Aries == I am bit scared of seeing individual constellation in Wikisaurus. That aside, the def "astronomy; the constellation" seems odd, as, in definitions, semicolon separates synonymous definitions. What makes you think "Zodiac" is a hypernym of "Aries"? --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 09:27, 15 April 2011 (UTC) :OK, the defs of [[WS:Aries]] and [[WS:grammatical person]] can be changed to something better. Maybe the contexts "astronomy" and "grammar" should be between parentheses? :While I don't see the possible existence of 88 WS pages for modern constellations as a particularly scary phenomenon, these pages may become very big if the community decides that ''[[α Ari]]'' and similar names aren't SOP. Anyway, I thought it would be a good idea at least list Hamal, Sharatan, etc. together. :I thought of Zodiac and Aries as particular areas of the [[celestial sphere]], to conclude that one of them is... well, a ''holonym'' of the other. Sorry for listing it as an hypernym; it's fixed now. The set of definitions of ''[[constellation]]'' explains that Aries may also be defined as the group of stars instead of the area surrounding them, in which case Zodiac would be a holonym too. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 16:38, 15 April 2011 (UTC) :: Okay, so can you turn the defs into real defs? Neither "astronomy; the constellation" nor "grammar; linguistic reference" looks like a def; I don't understand the latter def in the least. --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 17:03, 15 April 2011 (UTC) :::Yes; done. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 04:57, 16 April 2011 (UTC) == [[Greek mythology]] == When you add long lists of trreqs, please put them in alphabetic order. --[[User:Hekaheka|Hekaheka]] 15:25, 15 April 2011 (UTC) :When I add long lists of trreqs, yes, I always put them in alphabetic order. However, if I remember correctly, [[Greek mythology]] was the only exception, because... Don't we have a bot to do that? --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 16:14, 15 April 2011 (UTC) == Wikisaurus:moon of Eris == Huh? Eris is "the most massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System (provisional designation 2003 UB313)". What for does a thesaurus need a page with moons of a dwarf planet? The other entries for particular instances that you have created in Wikisaurus are ridiculous. "Wikisaurus:country of Central America" does not need to exist at all; countries could be meronyms of "WS:Central America". So after you have been prevented from creating mess in the mainspace, you move into Wikisaurus, right? I am so tired of you! --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 07:56, 16 April 2011 (UTC) :Please. When I try to replicate the psychological reasoning that apparently made you angry with me, I get "Bwahahaha! I'm so evil that I'm going to ''make perfectly appropriate contributions'', and I'll make sure that ''people will disagree with some of their titles''!", find it ridiculous and stop. :I've added a few technical synonyms to [[Wikisaurus:moon of Eris]]. "Eris I" smells like SOP, but I'd say not, simply because it refers specifically to Dysnomia. I may change my mind if we possibly get a good astronomical definition of [[I]]. However, at least we have [[Sol III]] since 2009. :When you moved to "Wikisaurus:South America" from "Wikisaurus:country of South America", you created an incomplete page in the process; South America has other things, such as dependent territories. In fact, it has rivers and forests, possibly making the existence of a number of Wikisaurus pages justifiable. One possibility is having simultaneously [[WS:country of South America]], [[WS:dependent territory of South America]], [[WS:forest of South America]] and [[WS:river of South America]]. Alternatively, we may implement your already implemented proposal of [[WS:South America]] listing countries, and perhaps add dependent territories to it as well, and create separate pages for other things of South America. :The coverage of place names in the main namespace, when compared to the coverage of place names in Wikisaurus, suggests that the latter is a very immature project. Any of these ideas may be implemented if necessary and accepted. And these are all good ideas. I can see merit on supporting and improving yours, despite your rude remarks being poor arguments. :One advantage of having "WS:country of..." is making it clear what geographical boundaries should be listed and what should not. If fact, by keeping things that are not countries away, one can flood the pages with old names of countries such as Yugoslavia, instead of flooding them with names of dependent territories. Again, there are many different possibilities, such as even creating [[WS:former country of Europe]], which [[w:Category:Former countries in Europe]] suggests that would be huge enough. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 16:26, 16 April 2011 (UTC) :: Having simultaneously "WS:country of South America", "WS:dependent territory of South America", "WS:forest of South America" and "WS:river of South America" is inappropriate for a thesaurus, as is "WS:former country of Europe". Having "WS:South America" is already questionable. I am horrified that you sincerely planned to create "WS:dependent territory of South America" and the other mentioned entries. As I said, when you cannot continue in the mainspace, you move to Wikisaurus. You know very well that your creation of tiny categories has turned controversial and that some of these categories were already deleted. :: Place names do not need to be covered in Wikisaurus at all. Wikisaurus is a very incomplete and fledgling project, to be sure, but the last thing that makes it incomplete is lack of coverage of geographic names. :: Can you tell me which thesaurus you have consulted as an example to follow when creating WS:country of South America? What thesauri have you have had a look at, if any? --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 08:20, 18 April 2011 (UTC) :: Wikisaurus:Portuguese language, Wikisaurus:English language, and Wikisaurus:Irish language? Are you crazy? I ask you to immediately stop adding entries for names of specific entities to Wikisaurus. --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 08:34, 18 April 2011 (UTC) :::No other thesaurus comes to my mind, and I don't have the intention of adding geographic names to Wikisaurus if they're inappropriate content. I've already ceased to edit countries and continents per your complaint, and I can also stop to edit names of languages until further discussion. :::One result of [[User talk:Daniel./Archive 2#New idea/s|this old discussion between two people]] was the decision to eventually create a neat yet complex categorization scheme for place names of various levels, which I didn't do after months. My plan was to take advantage of the Wikisaurus scheme to organize the place names before categorizing them, if they should be categorized. :::One rationale for using Wikisaurus is naturally the fact that these places have a considerable number of meronyms and holonyms. Since we have relaxed criteria for including place names, and many entries defined as place names, it seems natural to display their relationships, either at Wikisaurus or somewhere else. A reader of the entry "Minnesota" may want to see a list of other names of US states. This reasoning applies to a number of languages as well, with their multiple names, dialects, families and macrolanguages. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 08:52, 18 April 2011 (UTC) :::: I am exploring the possibilities of including names of specific entities in Wikisaurus and arguments for and against various approaches. It takes some time, hence no further response from me so far on this subject. I still think there should be no "WS:country of South America" and no "WS:moon of Mars". :::: Re: "One result of this old discussion between two people was the decision to eventually create a neat yet complex categorization scheme for place names of various levels, which I didn't do after months. My plan was to take advantage of the Wikisaurus scheme to organize the place names before categorizing them, if they should be categorized.": :::: My tentative reading: You had a discussion in July 2010 with User:Dick Laurent AKA Opiaterein AKA RIC after which you had decided that you were going to create a neat yet complex categorization scheme for place names of various levels. You decided that you could use Wikisaurus as a working ground or workplace before you continue to create categories for geographic names, meaning things named "Category: ...". Is that right? If so, what makes you think Wiktionary editors would be okay with that? Have you published that categorization scheme anywhere so its application to Wikisaurus can be discussed? --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 17:04, 19 April 2011 (UTC) :::::Creating a complex categorization scheme and creating the resulting categories are different things, and the approval of other Wiktionarians is expected to occur exactly between these two steps, or earlier. So I don't have to present anything yet to other people, and I would certainly propose clearly the new categorization scheme once I'm ready, as I've been doing multiple times. :::::Differently, I assumed that adding proper nouns to Wikisaurus was already inherently appropriate, for aforementioned reasons and the fact that proper nouns existed there before my interference, so I didn't bother to ask for that specific approval. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 17:46, 19 April 2011 (UTC) :::::: Wow. Can you tell me which proper nouns had entries in Wikisaurus before you started? Furthermore, "moon of Jupiter" is not even a proper noun; it is a non-elementary sum-of-parts term that selects individuals based on their class and based on their relationship to an individual. Were there any entries before you started on which the creation of "WS:moon of Jupiter" could be modeled? --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 18:03, 19 April 2011 (UTC) :::::::You added names of moons to [[WS:moon]], names of stars to [[WS:star]] and Milky Way to [[WS:galaxy]]. The name "WS:moon of Jupiter" could easily have been written as "WS:Jovian moon", which is similar to various other sum-of-parts names such as "WS:promiscuous woman" and "WS:card suit". --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 18:42, 19 April 2011 (UTC) : {{outdent}} Well yes, I have placed some proper names ''inside'' of entries of common nouns. You see the difference to what you are doing with Wikisaurus:Aries, Wikisaurus:Botein (not even in the mainspace) and WS:country of Africa, right? "Jovian moon" looks superficially similar to "promiscuous woman" but it is fundamentally different in that "Jovian moon" really only means "moon of Mars" and is a relational term, one that picks objects by their relation to another object. The number of such relational terms is huge. Also, there should be as few terms like "promiscuous woman" as possible; the term has one-word synonyms rather than instances in the entry, and is used only for the sake of clarity of the headword. WS:card suit is a term of disambiguation; "WS:suit" could be used otherwise and is the page name under which I have created the entry before you have moved it elsewhere. In general, sum of parts terms should be used with great caution in Wikisaurus. --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 19:00, 19 April 2011 (UTC) ::I interpreted the existence of listed proper nouns as an implied permission to list more proper nouns. This fact applies to all parts of speech, by the way. However, now I see more clearly that whether Wikisaurus should fulfill the function of being an abrangent or complete compendium of proper nouns that are attestable and have a number of semantic relations is a delicate subject. ::I added a few new pages of proper nouns (Few, really! From the point of view of someone who disagrees with their existence, they probably must have been a lot, but I see them as a small bunch of pages today. I'm sorry if this cognitive conflict that I described is accurate.), learned about your disagreements, got the chance to discuss them, and exposed a number of relevant proposals to you, at least. ::One example of Wikisaurus page of a "relational term", as you described it, is [[WS:European]]. It means person of Europe. If all pages created by you are appropriate, and if there are a number of arguments able to prove that "WS:moon of Mars" is inappropriate by comparison with pages created by you, this is not one of them. If, more specifically, you actually was criticizing the concept of a list of proper nouns that are related to another proper noun, then this is really a novel concept along with the basic idea of creating Wikisaurus pages defined as proper nouns. In this case, I acknowledge that there is a huge number of possible relational lists and support the generic idea of don't creating Wikisaurus pages for most of them. This reflects in the fact that my proposals don't involve the existence of "WS:moon of the Solar System" and "WS:state of South America", which would be redundant with closer relations such as "WS:Brazil" and "WS:Venezuela" with states and "WS:South America" with countries. ::I support, however, an inclusionist approach that, from my current long-term mindset, involves the creation of at least one Wikisaurus page per country, among an even higher number of other pages for certain groups of proper nouns, which I believe you dislike. Like I mentioned before, many place names, including countries, have a high number of meronyms, an arbitrary number of holonyms, a high rate of inclusion in the main namespace and the perceived need to list these holonyms and meronyms somewhere; appendices are a fairly good place to do that, except for the fact that this alternative proposal involves making the appendices function as Wikisaurus pages, which is a function better fulfilled by actual Wikisaurus pages. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 09:09, 20 April 2011 (UTC) : {{outdent|1}} "abrangent" is not an English word; have you not noticed? You must know very well that I have to look up that word and find that it is not in the dictionary, right? See also {{R:OneLook|abrangent}}. : Few pages? You have added 50 Wikisaurus pages between 15 April and 19 April that either represent names or terms for specific entities or are meant to group them under one sum-of-parts head: WS:Hercules, WS:Andromeda, WS:Pisces, WS:Aquarius, WS:Sagittarius, WS:Capricornus, WS:Scorpius, WS:Aldebaran, WS:Virgo, WS:Leo, WS:Zodiac, WS:Ophiuchus, WS:Bharani, WS:Scottish Gaelic language, WS:Irish language, WS:Cancer, WS:Botein, WS:English language, WS:Portuguese language, WS:moon of Eris, WS:moon of Earth, WS:United States, WS:Carina–Sagittarius Arm, WS:Orion–Cygnus Arm, WS:Mesarthim, WS:Sheratan, WS:Milky Way, WS:Hamal, WS:universe, WS:Gemini, WS:Venezuela, WS:Brazil, WS:Central America, WS:Oceania, WS:Asia, WS:Africa, WS:Europe, WS:South America, WS:North America, WS:Taurus, WS:Moon, WS:Dysnomia, WS:moon of Haumea, WS:moon of Saturn, WS:moon of Pluto, WS:moon of Neptune, WS:moon of Uranus, WS:moon of Mars, WS:moon of Jupiter, WS:Solar System. : You are not going to claim that "European" is a sum-of-parts term, are you? It is in a way a relational term, I admit, but it is not a sum-of-parts one, and it is there to host such hyponyms as "Frenchman", which is a ''common noun''. : You have created "WS:state of South America", yet now you claim that it is not part of proposal. After correction: my mistake, you have created "WS:country of South America". What you are saying is that you have not intended to create such list pages for any meaningful combination of common noun and a proper noun. : Your pretense that your actions were an extension of what was already being done in Wikisaurus is ridiculous. --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 09:51, 20 April 2011 (UTC) ::Sorry, I must have mentally mixed Portuguese with English by accident when typing one word. When I said "abrangent", I meant "comprehensive". ::My actions are indeed an extension of what was already being done in Wikisaurus. They don't have to be in order to be acceptable, but they are. "European" is not a sum-of-parts; "moon of Mars" is. However, last year you said "A Wikisaurus entry does not stand for a term or a syntactic entity; it stands for a semantic entity or a semantic cluster." I perceived a semantic entity and created a Wikisaurus page for that. Your disagreement came later. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 10:15, 20 April 2011 (UTC) : {{outdent|1}} Sure, it was a mere accident. That is why you have written this, including the wikilink to Portuguese "abrangente": "The Wikisaurus version is more restricted and more sophisticated by displaying various types of relationships of English nouns ([...]), and the topical category is more [[abrangente|abrangent]] and more simple by simply listing all the terms that involve tea in the easily readable and editable standard used by numerous sites powered by MediaWiki. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 20:24, 17 April 2011 (UTC)". I see you have invented a new form of obscurantism. You are trying to tell me that, when entering that wikilink, you have not found out that there is no "abrangent" in English, right? --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 10:57, 20 April 2011 (UTC) ::''DCDuring'' inserted the link into the sentence you quoted from me. There is no link in the original discussion. Diff: [http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary:Requests_for_deletion/Others&diff=12877054&oldid=12876942]. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 11:10, 20 April 2011 (UTC) ::As a side note: Who cares about one mistaken word, especially one subsequently immediately clarified? You listed few Czech names of planets instead of English ones on Wikisaurus, among a number of other minor mistakes and I'm not accusing you of "inventing obscurantism" for this reason. I corrected them quietly. You must know very well that my skills are "en-3", since you read babel boxes enough to ask people to add them to their user pages. By the way, you are being needlessly aggressive. I prefer when you aren't. Now let me re-answer one of your questions: Wikisaurus pages that were created by you, and whose main purpose is listing proper nouns, include [[WS:Titan]] and [[WS:astrological sign]]. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 03:23, 21 April 2011 (UTC) : {{outdent|1}} I admit that I am angry and picking needless minor fighting points, of which "abrangent" is the clearest instance. Sorry for misreading your post; that is what happens when people modify other people's posts without notification. : WS:Titan is a common noun (mainspace says it is a proper noun but I do not see why) and non-relational one, meaning not like "country of Africa"; it is like listing ''some'' names of stars in WS:star, which I did. I have placed names of specific entities to some entries for ''common nouns'' rather than ''relational terms''. I was not in the process of flooding Wikisaurus with names of specific entities. You said that you have created a "few" Wikisaurus entries when you have in fact created 50. I see no retraction or correction on your side. You continue to create entries for single countries in Wikisaurus. You are taking advantage of the fact that I am not an admin and that very few people take interest in Wikisaurus, so you can flood Wikisaurus with exactly that content that people reject in categories, including entries dedicated to individual stars. : You have not had a look at any other thesaurus, and you continue recklessly expand Wikisaurus along any line as you see fit, just because the relations of meronymy and holonymy and the unclear rules of the game as regards scoping allow you to do so. Yes, I am angry because of that. --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 07:45, 21 April 2011 (UTC) ::You said that I am taking advantage of the fact that you are not an admin. However, I fail to see this particular point, because: (1) I am not using admin tools against you, such as blocking you, and (2) using admin tools against me, such as blocking me, would be a poor strategy of solving disagreements. ::It is unfair to say that people reject categories that would contain the contents that we are discussing; nonetheless, it would be equally unfair to assume that people support these categories. The reason is: as far as I know, such categories were not exposed and discussed yet. However, a simple poll could hopefully display a consensus, or tendencies of consensus. Both you and me have experience in creating polls, so if this idea suits you, please be my guest and create one. ::You questioned the existence of entries, and Wikisaurus pages, for individual stars, in a current RFDO discussion. It seems fruitful. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 08:48, 21 April 2011 (UTC) : {{outdent|1}} The RFDO discussion does not seem fruitful at all. I wholly reject the arguments made by you and MG in that RFDO request. For me, that discussion and this discussion with you is mostly a waste of my time and attention, that is, my scarce resources. I engange in this discussion in the hope that it will have non-zero effect on the usefulness and greatness of Wikisaurus, but that is a very uncertain proposition. --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 09:15, 21 April 2011 (UTC) ::You may always counterargue the arguments that you reject. Unfortunately, this does require time and attention. On the other hand, one possible, optimistic long-term result for your plans would be setting rules in stone for Wikisaurus, that would only be able to be undone by votes, for example. Just note how CFI and ELE are virtually eternal in essence. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 09:36, 21 April 2011 (UTC) : {{outdent|1}} Re: "You may always counterargue the arguments that you reject": Which is just another waste of resources and, in addition, does not necessarily lead to conviction of other people. Obviously, you have too much time on your hands for endless discussions (so do I, in a way); your university courses are not making you busy enough. Setting up rules for a thesaurus via RFDO is the last thing I would like to do. I would like to discuss with people who have shown the ability to create real and good Wikisaurus entries, and have taken the bussiness of building a thesaurus seriously enough to study other available thesauri. --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 09:46, 21 April 2011 (UTC) ::I'd appreciate if two of your assumptions about my life from your last message were clarified. First of all, did I someday reveal publicly on the Internet that I am currently engaged in university courses? Second, I ''did'' read other thesauri and studies about semantic relations; I did not, however, see the list "country of South America" in any of them before introducing it to Wikisaurus. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 10:03, 21 April 2011 (UTC) : {{outdent|1}} As regards the first statement, I arrived at it in my own way; feel free to deny it. : The second statement is my reading of your answer to my two questions, your answer being "No other thesaurus comes to my mind, ...". Feel free to clarify this by stating which thesauri you have consulted. --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 10:56, 21 April 2011 (UTC) == Wikisaurus:afterlife == What the heck is this? * Wikisaurus:afterlife ** Synonyms *** afterlife ** Hyponyms *** Heaven *** Hell Do you sincerely believe that "Heaven" is a hyponym of "afterlife"? I have seen so many similar bad edits in Wikisaurus from you. You have no idea of semantic relations. I would be so relieved not to see you editing Wikisaurus again. --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 19:30, 19 April 2011 (UTC) :Technically not yet, because it isn't defined on Wiktionary; "heaven" is. The version with the capital letter has yet to be created and attested. The list of terms you copied from WS:afterlife is not, however, erroneous. If afterlife (or a similar name, such as Afterlife, Hereafter or the Other Side) simply means the universe inhabited by deceased people, and usage implies that Heaven is the only form of afterlife of a belief or doctrine, then Heaven is a hyponym of afterlife. Same thing with Hell. The common belief of Heaven and Hell as two simultaneously existent places in, for example, Catholicism, would make them able to be ''meronyms'' of another, more strict list of semantic relations, which is highly unlikely to be created but could be named "WS:Catholic afterlife". One simple way to list all forms of afterlife together at "WS:afterlife" would be using the keyword "Various"; however, ideally, all varieties should be explained eventually. Another simple way of listing them all together would be adapting the page named "WS:afterlife" to cover the alternative meaning of "any of various places believed to be populated by deceased people" (whose plural is "afterlives") and where all versions may be listed as ''instances''. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 07:37, 20 April 2011 (UTC) :: Great; you do not figure the thing even after I point it out. "afterlife" is "life after death". "heaven" is "the paradise of the afterlife in certain religions, considered to be the home of the god or gods of those religions, and often the home, or one of various possible homes, of souls of deceased people". Heaven is a place while afterlife is not a place. Hence, heaven is not a hyponym of afterlife. QED. --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 09:47, 20 April 2011 (UTC) :::Afterlife is a place. By saying otherwise, I assume you dismissed my last message of this thread. Your definition of afterlife is also correct. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 10:20, 20 April 2011 (UTC) :::: afterlife is defined as a place neither in Wiktionary, nor in MWO, nor in Encarta. --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 10:37, 20 April 2011 (UTC) :::::Now it is defined as an entry of Wiktionary, and attested. I didn't check the other sources that you mentioned. The Wikisaurus page, however, had a good definition mentioning a "place" even before you started this discussion. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 11:55, 20 April 2011 (UTC) :::::: Point taken: some authors refer to "afterlife" as if it were a place, whether that attests to a new sense that has "place" as a hypernym or not. --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 07:28, 21 April 2011 (UTC) == Wikisaurus entries for countries == I find it rather doubtful to create individual Wikisaurus entries for countries, as [[WS:Ecuador]] and [[WS:Venezuela]]. The entries for countries that you have created contain a lot of redlinks. What makes you think that these entries, which will amount to some 200 judging from Wikipedia, can host interesting thesaurus content? What sort of meronyms are you planning to list? --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 08:01, 21 April 2011 (UTC) :I created and populated the hidden [[:Category:Wikisaurus items with red links]], which shows the fact that many entries listed on Wikisaurus have red links. The first-level administrative divisions such as states and provinces seem to me good information to be listed on pages of individual countries of that namespace. And they are interesting content. Other interesting information, that can be found on [[WS:Brazil]], includes: Northern Region and BRIC, which are terms directly related to that country. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 09:00, 21 April 2011 (UTC) :: The distinction between "contain a lot of redlinks" and "has at least one redlink" is one that you should be able to make. The category contains the latter while I spoke of the former. For instance, WS:diagram listed in your category has two redlinks among many bluelinks. :: Okay, so you intend to list at least states and provinces of some countries as meronyms. Should there be a Wikisaurus entry for every country in the world, per your plan? Should there be a Wikisaurus entry for each state of the U.S., per your plan? What is the estimated number of entries for place names that should be created in Wikisaurus, per your plan? --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 09:10, 21 April 2011 (UTC) :::"contain a lot of redlinks" is a subset of "has at least one redlink". Logically, the category contains both possibilities. Pages with many redlinks include [[Wikisaurus:anticonvulsant]], [[Wikisaurus:bird]], [[Wikisaurus:bird of prey]] and [[Wikisaurus:chav]]. However, in addition to the fact that Wikisaurus pages with many redlinks are not unheard of, there is the fact that the number of redlinks is meaningless if they are attestable. The pages may simply be created, and that's one purpose of categorizing their respective lists together. :::[[:Category:Wikisaurus]] has 1173 pages. In other words, there are approximately 1100 WS pages if we don't count the entries of proper nouns and few anomalies such as an archive of beer parlour listed there. :::I tried to reach an approximate result for your numerical question, and ended up with a very high number, reaching four digits too. I acknowledge that this would be an extreme flood of proper nouns in comparison with the current contents, and I see this as a very strong argument against suddenly creating these WS entries of geographical divisions. However, places to list and organize proper nouns are still needed, they are interesting information, are connected by semantic relations and already flood the main namespace extensively. Wikisaurus is still better than appendices like [[Appendix:Place names in France]] that would be expected to serve the same purpose. These Wikisaurus pages could, however, in principle, be completely replaced by categories such as "Category:States of Brazil" to display the same relations of holonymy/meronymy if you prefer Wikisaurus pages to avoid a huge set of proper nouns. I can see a number of reasons for wanting Wikisaurus devoid of that content, including but not limited to the arguments you said to me in various discussions. :::As you mentioned, having one page for each state of the U.S. would indeed fit my plans of using Wikisaurus to display relations of geographical divisions, because the main namespace contains definitions of subdivisions of these states (for example, [[Saint Paul]] as the capital of Minnesota). :::First of all, the current, relaxed practice indicates that Wiktionary accepts two levels of administrative divisions per country. Here are some examples: :::* country > province > city :::* country > state > city :::* country > federal district > city :::* country > state > town :::Judging from your estimate of 200 countries, ''and'' the approximate fact that they tend to have 30 first-level divisions each, and 30 second-level divisions for each first-level division, then it amounts to 180000 definitions in the main namespace. Wikisaurus pages would be restricted to the first-level entries, resulting in 6000 WS pages or equal categories to list the 180000 aforementioned main namespace ones. :::I didn't count third-level and fourth-level divisions, such as subdistricts and municipalities, because their physical existence and their coverage are more irregular; and the current results are irregular enough. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 10:34, 21 April 2011 (UTC) : {{outdent|2}} This high number of Wikisaurus entries that you are about or at least pondering to create raises two key questions: (a) why are these pages important for a thesaurus AKA word finder, and (b) why is it important to have them in a dictionary? Related questions: (c) what thesauri contain such pages or so many pages for geographic names, (d) what thesauri have you had a look at, and (e) what dictionaries contain pages that interrelate geographic names by meronymy? --[[User:Dan Polansky|Dan Polansky]] 10:48, 21 April 2011 (UTC) == {{temp|list linker}} == <nowiki>{{#switch:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|{{{1}}}|{{{2}}}=<!-- -->{{#if:{{{cat}}}|[[Category:{{{cat}}}]]}}<!-- -->{{#if:{{{cat2}}}|[[Category:{{{cat2}}}]]}}<!-- -->}}</nowiki> I'm a bit confused by this piece of code in {{temp|list linker}}. The second parameter given from {{temp|list helper}} is the language code, so I don't think this gives the intended result. I'm not completely sure what the intended result is, but if it's to check whether any of the parameters given to list helper match the page name, wouldn't it simplify the whole thing to just do that through one large switch function in list helper, rather than having many small switch functions in every list linker, so that it could minimize the use of parserfunctions and not have to pass the cat/cat2 into list linker every time in the first place? --[[User:Yair rand|Yair rand]] 16:11, 21 April 2011 (UTC) = May 2011 = == category idea == Hullo sir ¶ Since we have [[:Category:Informal]], should we also have [[:Category:Formal]]? I just thought I would propose this before it is creätèd. Regards, --[[User:Pilcrow|Pilcrow]] 05:19, 6 May 2011 (UTC)Pilcrow. :If you can be so kind as to provide a few examples of possible members of Category:Formal, it would be immensely easier to support your proposal. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 05:23, 6 May 2011 (UTC) :Please note that [[Wiktionary:Votes/2011-04/Lexical categories]] proposes splitting "Category:Informal" into "Category:Informal terms by language" and "Category:English informal terms", which certainly doesn't exclude the idea of a category for formal terms, but it might be named "Category:English formal terms", for example. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 05:54, 6 May 2011 (UTC) ::¶ ''Exemplorum [[gratia]]'': [[whom]] (already tagged), [[sir]], [[madam]], [[may#Verb|may]] (versus [[can#Verb|can]]), [[child]] (versus [[kid]]), [[urinate]], [[discussion]] and [[discuss]] (versus [[talk]]), [[welcome]] or [[greetings]] (versus [[hey]] or [[sup]]), [[canine]] (versus [[dog]]), [[congratulate]] (versus [[congrats]]) [[how are you doing]] (versus [[what's up]]). ¶ You may express yourself as you like; I will not be upset if you decline. --[[User:Pilcrow|Pilcrow]] 06:04, 6 May 2011 (UTC) :::Thank you for your examples, and for being prepared for not being upset if I decline your proposal. That said, I liked your choice of terms, and I personally support the idea of having a category for formal terms. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 06:12, 6 May 2011 (UTC) == Making verbatim copies of Wikipedia content == Hey, I don't understand at all the purpose of [[Appendix:Etymology/escalator|this page]]. I reduced it to a redirect to Wikipedia, as it appears a verbatim copy. If new information was added to the wikipedia article, the wiktionary article would become obsolete, as the editor has no way of knowing the information has been duplicated to the wiktionary. Unless you can provide a good reason not to, I will ask this page to be deleted and render the sole backlink in [[escalator]] to a normal inter-wiki link as well. Thanks, --[[User:Hydrox|Hydrox]] 22:00, 7 May 2011 (UTC) :Copying contents between Wikimedia projects isn't ''per se'' wrong. That said, feel free to ask for the deletion of the appendix in question; the right place to do it would be [[Wiktionary:Requests for deletion/Others]]. However, please don't blank that page before doing that, because by doing so you give the impression (to people that fail to see the history) that you are merely wanting the deletion of a needless soft redirect to Wikipedia. I'm going to revert your reversal in order to facilitate any future decision. Thanks in advance for understanding. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 22:16, 7 May 2011 (UTC) == Template:humorously == Isn't this sort of redundant to [[Template:humorous]]? [[User:TeleComNasSprVen|TeleComNasSprVen]] 05:56, 11 May 2011 (UTC) :No. One is an adjective and other is an adverb. Please see the "what links here" page of both templates to check how they are used. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 06:01, 11 May 2011 (UTC) ::He isn't talking about part of speech - {{temp|figurative}} redirects to {{temp|figuratively}} for example, and has done so for years. --[[User:Mglovesfun|Mglovesfun]] ([[User talk:Mglovesfun|talk]]) 12:27, 12 May 2011 (UTC) :::I know he isn't; I am. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 12:35, 12 May 2011 (UTC) == Twice-borrowed terms == In theory, any entry that has {{temp|etyl|xx|xx}} where xx is the same in both cases, is a twice-borrowed term. Dutch {{term|mannequin|lang=nl}} is an example of that, and it's categorised in [[:Category:nl:Dutch derivations]]. Do you think it should be a subcategory of twice-borrowed terms? —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 10:36, 12 May 2011 (UTC) :Sure, apparently the two categories that you mentioned are supposed to have exactly the same terms (since I can't think of any entry that would justify a [[:Category:Dutch four times borrowed terms]], for example.) :In this case, perhaps {{temp|etyl|xx|xx}} should categorize entries automatically into ''Category:Dutch twice-borrowed terms'', rather than into ''Category:nl:Dutch derivations'', because the latter is very ambiguous. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 10:46, 12 May 2011 (UTC) :: I tried that, but Ruakh just reverted it with no explanation. :/ —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 11:19, 12 May 2011 (UTC) :::Wow. By reading only the quick exchange between you and Ruakh, it would be difficult to know what you two were thinking; I, personally, see a comedy of errors. :::Well... I suggest explaining this simple proposal at BP before doing that change to a highly used template. A little bureucracy usually works well for noncontroversial changes here. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 11:32, 12 May 2011 (UTC) == Etymology categories == Now that we have a special category tree for etymology, do you think the derivation categories should be moved under them as well? It would probably need a vote, but it does make sense under the circumstances. —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 11:37, 12 May 2011 (UTC) :I, personally, would require further discussion before supporting a merger of categories of derivations with the new category tree of etymology (such as, for example, making "Category:French derivations" be a member of "Category:French etymologies"). It is a complex proposal, and we don't need to rush. :That said, feel free to take a look at [[Wiktionary:Votes/2011-04/Derivations categories]], which is good in essence but has very much room for improvement, just like the current categories of derivations. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 11:46, 12 May 2011 (UTC) :: I meant it the other way around actually. That French derivations would be renamed to something like "English derivations from French" and be placed under English etymologies. I think that it also should be placed under the French tree somewhere, but I don't know where. —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 12:03, 12 May 2011 (UTC) :::Renaming "French derivations" to "English derivations from French" is already a huge enough project because it involves moving literally thousands of categories (since I strongly assume that many other names would be consistently implemented too, like "German derivations from Japanese"). :::While I basically like this proposed new naming scheme (it seems to be the most natural choice, really), I (and presumably other people) would feel much more inclined to support it if I knew exactly what would be the place of each and every category. The vote in question has some ideas to consider. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 12:23, 12 May 2011 (UTC) :::: Ok let me see... currently, the top category for (as an example) Dutch is called "nl:Etymology", but we now also have "Dutch etymologies. So at the very least, we should rename the former so that it fits into the latter. How does "Dutch terms by etymology" sound? Or maybe "Dutch terms by origin"? That category would then contain the categories of the etymology tree. We could leave it at that for now and just integrate the two etymology trees into one. :::: If we decide to make the tree match the rest, then we would need to rename the subcategories as well. As a rule so far, all language-specific categories have names that begin with the name of the language of the terms it contains. So that means that all etymology categories containing Dutch terms must begin with "Dutch" instead of "nl:". We currently have "nl:Indo-European derivations", so we might rename it to "Dutch terms derived from Indo-European". :::: But then there is the second tree, which is the tree of the language of origin. Currently that tree overlaps with the English terms, so it's a bit of a mess. One top category might be "Terms derived from Indo-European by language", or a similar but more concise name. The category containing Dutch terms derived from Indo-European would then be in both that category and the category of Dutch terms by origin. In short, we would have two trees, that overlap one another, as we do now more or less, one sorted "by origin" and one sorted "by language". —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 20:24, 12 May 2011 (UTC) :::: I propose that for the time being, we create a template {{temp|derivcatboiler}} which would replace {{temp|topic cat}} for etymology categories. Its parameters would be two language codes, like {{temp|etyl}} - the first would be the source language, and the second would be the target language. So, [[:Category:nl:Indo-European derivations]] would use {{temp|derivcatboiler|ine|nl}}. Or maybe the parameters should be the other way around, since other boilerplate templates have the target language as the first parameter? For now, we wouldn't need to make this template work any differently from how {{temp|topic cat}} currently does, except that we can make the internals work before we start changing the category names themselves. It would give us a bit of a head start by having a working template. Ideally, we would make the internal 'storage' of the tree in such a way that it can be used in both the original and the new situation. —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 20:30, 12 May 2011 (UTC) :::::Having a an additional template named {{temp|derivcatboiler}} is a great idea, and its parameters should be {{temp|derivcatboiler|nl|ine}}, in this order, for "Category:Dutch terms derived from Indo-European", at least for the reason you gave. :::::In particular, I disagree with your last idea: creating a template that is not {{temp|topic cat}} and works with the current categories of derivations (such as "Category:nl:Japanese derivations) is just unnecessary work if they're going to be changed ''en masse'' anyway and the current template works just well, although not perfectly. :::::I naturally support eventually renaming "Category:nl:Etymology" to fit "Category:Dutch etymologies", but again I'd prefer if ideally everything else were decided first, so the former name may act as a perfect cleanup category when the moment comes. :::::In my opinion, the category "Dutch terms by etymology" to fill that gap is a really bad choice because it is so generic it could be identical to "Dutch etymologies" or "nl:Etymology". Your other suggestion, "Dutch terms by origin" is not bad, but I think I have a better, more intuitive, idea: :::::Having "Category:Dutch terms derived from Japanese" with at least two parent categories: "Category:Terms derived from Japanese" and "Category:Dutch terms derived from other languages". --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 09:28, 14 May 2011 (UTC) :::::: Ok, so we have this proposal now for the "origin" tree: ::::::* Dutch etymologies ::::::** Terms derived from Dutch (< Dutch derivations) ::::::*** English terms derived from Dutch (< Dutch derivations, just the entries) ::::::*** Japanese terms derived from Dutch (< ja:Dutch derivations) ::::::* English etymologies ::::::** Terms derived from English (< English derivations) ::::::*** Dutch terms derived from English (< nl:English derivations) ::::::*** Japanese terms derived from English (< ja:English derivations) ::::::* Japanese etymologies ::::::** Terms derived from Japanese (< Japanese derivations) ::::::*** English terms derived from Japanese (< Japanese derivations, just the entries) ::::::*** Dutch terms derived from Japanese (< nl:Japanese derivations) :::::: And for the "target" tree: ::::::* Dutch etymologies ::::::** Dutch terms derived from other languages (< nl:Etymology) ::::::*** Dutch terms derived from English (< nl:English derivations) ::::::*** Dutch terms derived from Japanese (< nl:Japanese derivations) ::::::* English etymologies ::::::** English terms derived from other languages (< Etymology, just the non-language categories) ::::::*** English terms derived from Dutch (< Dutch derivations, just the entries) ::::::*** English terms derived from Japanese (< Japanese derivations, just the entries) ::::::* Japanese etymologies ::::::** Japanese terms derived from other languages (< ja:Etymology) ::::::*** Japanese terms derived from Dutch (< ja:Dutch derivations) ::::::*** Japanese terms derived from English (< ja:English derivations) :::::: That leaves just two points left to figure out. Does "Dutch terms derived from other languages" have a parent other than "Dutch etymologies"? Since it is a sister category to "Dutch blends" which is in "Blends by language", the natural choice would be "Terms derived from other languages by language". And parallel to that is the question what parents "Terms derived from Japanese" has other than "Japanese etymologies". It is already a "by language" category even if not named so, so "Terms derived from Japanese by language" would be the same category. I'm not sure where it would go. —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 12:01, 14 May 2011 (UTC) :::::::That's an excellent category tree in my opinion. The umbrella categories are a relatively minor issue, that can be resolved this way: "Terms derived from other languages by language" is good enough, so we can have them. :::::::I copied these ideas to [[Wiktionary:Votes/2011-04/Derivations categories]]. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 07:20, 15 May 2011 (UTC) :::::::: The source language categories still don't have an umbrella category, though. Which category will contain "Terms derived from Dutch", "Terms derived from English" and "Terms derived from Japanese"? —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 09:53, 15 May 2011 (UTC) :::::::::Then I suggest having "Derivations by target language" and "Derivations by source language". I updated the vote to mention them. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 10:10, 15 May 2011 (UTC) :::::::::: I just realised something. We've looked at the 'leaf' categories for individual languages, but we haven't considered what to do with the categories for language families, such as "Germanic derivations". Under our new system it would be renamed to "English terms derived from Germanic", which in turn would go in both "English terms derived from other languages" and "Terms derived from Germanic". But where would the latter category go? Since Germanic isn't a language, there is no "Germanic etymologies". Perhaps it would be necessary to distinguish languages from families in the tree, so that we can categorise accordingly. There is a [[:Category:Germanic languages]] category, but does every language family have its own category in that way? :::::::::: Furthermore, now that we're looking at it, maybe we should distinguish the names of language families as well? Perhaps instead of "(English) terms derived from Germanic", we could make use of the fact that the template will 'know' that Germanic is a family, and name it "(English) terms derived from a Germanic language" instead? —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 19:52, 15 May 2011 (UTC) ::::::::::: 2cents: "(English) terms derived from Germanic languages" sounds better to me than "(English) terms derived from a Germanic language". If you're crazy specific like I am, the latter seems potentially misleading. — <font face="Lucida console">[ '''[[User:Dick Laurent|R·I·C]]''' ] <small>[[User talk:Dick Laurent|Laurent]]</small></font> — 20:16, 15 May 2011 (UTC) :::::::::::: I would say the former is more misleading since it gives the impression that the words may be derived from several languages at the same time. And there is also the special "Substrate" language which is an unknown language that influenced another language. "Terms derived from a substrate language" sounds better to me than "Terms derived from substrate languages". —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 20:26, 15 May 2011 (UTC) (unindenting) Yes, our tradition indicates that every language family should have a category like [[:Category:Germanic languages]] (e.g. "Category:North Germanic languages", "Category:Romance languages", etc.) As few exceptions, we have anomalies like [[:Category:All constructed languages]] where "all" doesn't mean anything, but this huge problem doesn't have to be discussed now. We can have "Category:Terms derived from Germanic languages" without an additional "Category:Germanic etymologies", because we don't want to create the common etymological subcategories for families, such as "Category:Germanic calques" or "Category:Germanic neologisms". OK, I'm going to edit the vote again to conform with my new conclusions drawn by this discussion. Feel free to agree with me, or change the vote too, or whatever. "(English) terms derived from Germanic languages" sounds better to me than "(English) terms derived from a Germanic language". If you're going to say that the plural version means strictly "two or more", then the singular version means strictly "exactly one", so both names would be technically untrue. However, we simply don't need to make that distinction, because the only actually useful quantity is "nonzero" Germanic languages, and the plural version indicates that nicely. (In addition, there are endless possibilities if one wants to unnecessarily challenge the accuracy of these names: one may argue that "(English) terms derived from Germanic languages" is a category ''only for terms that don't have any other family among their roots'', which would be a false assumption too.) --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 10:52, 17 May 2011 (UTC) : The [[Wiktionary:Votes/2011-05/Replacement for Xyzy, langscript, langfamily, langprefix and others|vote I just created]] would help in making this work, if it passes. That way we could read the derivation tree information from the language templates themselves, and we wouldn't need to keep a separate tree just for {{temp|derivcatboiler}}. —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 12:06, 17 May 2011 (UTC) ::Since the system needs to know that "Germanic" is a child of "Indo-European", then I assume that the vote is supposed to create subpages for family codes too (like {{temp|etyl:gem/fam}}. This fact should probably be mentioned there. There are other issues that can be discussed when the time comes. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 12:16, 17 May 2011 (UTC) ::: But that would create a chicken and egg problem, because then the calling template would need to know the type before it can find the template (since it uses a prefix). I think we should get rid of prefixes on language templates altogether, to be honest. But that might need another vote... —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 12:22, 17 May 2011 (UTC) ::: And if we drop prefixes, it would mean we can no longer distinguish between 'gem' as the Germanic family and the current practice of using the language family code for that language's common proto-language. So we would need new language codes for proto-languages. —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 12:24, 17 May 2011 (UTC) ::: I have started a discussion [[WT:GP#Dropping prefixes from language templates|here]]. —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 12:30, 17 May 2011 (UTC) == nonstandard - slang == Hi Daniel. Why would [[:Category:Danish slang]] be in [[:Category:Danish nonstandard terms]]? Is slang per definition nonstandard? What exactly is meant by the term "nonstandard term" anyway? I would presume nonstandard forms, -spellings and -terms was synonymous terms. We don't have (thankfully) [[:Category:Slang by language]] in [[:Category:Nonstandard terms by language]].--[[User:Leolaursen|Leo Laursen]] – ([[User talk:Leolaursen|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Leolaursen|contribs]]) 11:56, 12 May 2011 (UTC) :Hi. We also don't have [[:Category:Noun forms by language]] in [[:Category:Nouns by language]]; not categorizing umbrella categories inside other umbrella categories is a ''de facto'' practice — at least, it's my style, and it's just widely implemented by people who use templates created by me. :The page [[:Category:English nonstandard terms]] already contains a description of what "nonstandard term" means. I made that description but I did not introduce the use of that term on Wiktionary, so I may have been wrong when describing it; but I don't think I am. Something is nonstandard when it is not standard. I just assumed (with help of old descriptions of categories) that the point of view of standardness is the "formal and pedantic language". --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 12:10, 12 May 2011 (UTC) ::''About umbrella categories'': That depends whether they are meant to include pages, or just categories. I like to traverse the category tree when I'm looking for something I just can't remember what's called. So I'd actually prefer [[:Category:Noun forms by language]] in [[:Category:Nouns by language]], as is [[:Category:Plurals by language]] and other like it. ::''About standardness'': How on earth should we decide whether slang is standard or not? (and why?) There's loads of slang in standard Danish. Most entries in [[:Category:Danish slang]] and all except one in [[:Category:Danish colloquialisms]] are standard Danish terms, despite being in a subcategory of [[:Category:Danish nonstandard terms]]. Should we re-categorize them to fit your system? I.e. if it's standard it can't be slang too. ::I'm sorry, but I think your systematic-ism is bordering on the ridiculous sometimes.--[[User:Leolaursen|Leo Laursen]] – ([[User talk:Leolaursen|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Leolaursen|contribs]]) 13:00, 12 May 2011 (UTC) :::Since you categorically said that "There's loads of slang in standard Danish.", then you probably are able to answer all your questions from the last message in a manner that proves part of my categorization system wrong, which would be a good thing. I never said that my work is perfect or complete; feel free to revise it. :::Nonetheless, Wikipedia's ''[[w:Slang|Slang]]'' says slang are "not considered standard", while Wiktionary's ''[[slang]]'' says they are "outside of conventional usage", which agrees with the current descriptions and categories. There's nothing wrong with being simultaneously systematic and precise, if preciseness can be achieved. Notably, having hundreds of language-specific categories for slang is something rather systematic anyway, especially since "slang" is an English concept used here to represent groups of foreign words, which certainly have different notions of "standardness", "pedantry", "formality", etc. You may want to provide examples of standard slang, to make it easier to reconsider the details in question. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 14:23, 12 May 2011 (UTC) ::::Have you noted the amount of hostility that your efforts to impose categorization attract? Doesn't that bother you? Do you assume that those who oppose are wrong and you right? In this case you clearly have a non-standard understanding of the English meanings and relationship of "slang" and "non-standard". [[User: DCDuring |DCDuring]] <small >[[User talk: DCDuring|TALK]]</small > 14:56, 12 May 2011 (UTC) :::::Accusing me of "imposing categorization" out of nowhere in the middle of a conversation does bother me. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 15:07, 12 May 2011 (UTC) ::::Well, maybe I was a bit categorical. I consider terms included in [http://ordnet.dk/ddo DDO] for standard, but since some are marked as slang it is arguable. They are "more standard" than those found exclusively in a slang dictionary. Also some include argot and jargon, others specifically excludes them from slang. Some of the terms in "Danish slang" like [[daler]] and [[femmer]], may not be slang at all. I so wish we could have context labels, rather than a tree of categories, for this kind of stuff.--[[User:Leolaursen|Leo Laursen]] – ([[User talk:Leolaursen|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Leolaursen|contribs]]) 15:14, 12 May 2011 (UTC) :::::I think that the label Slang in DDO is a recognition of the fact that some might consider them non-standard, not that they necessarily are non-standard, which is the core of my concern. It is impossible to define.--[[User:Leolaursen|Leo Laursen]] – ([[User talk:Leolaursen|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Leolaursen|contribs]]) 15:24, 12 May 2011 (UTC) ::::::Ideally, in my opinion (that seems to be more or less like yours in this particular aspect) context categories should not be used as the primary source of information; they should merely list entries which already do a good job at explaining everything about their words. (I find it rather annoying when an entry is a member of "Category:English slang" [or other category] but I can't find what definition is slang, just because the editors neglected to add a context label or somewhere.) ::::::However, the context label {{temp|slang}} links to [[Appendix:Glossary#slang]], which explains to some extent what "slang" is. So there are efforts to elaborate context labels in a detailed manner that is generic enough to apply everywhere, in all "slang" entries of all languages. These efforts extend to categories too; they certainly could use small explanations of how the members were chosen to be categorized. ::::::The best descriptions I could write for [[:Category:English slang]], [[:Category:English colloquialisms]], [[:Category:English disputed terms]] and [[:Category:English hypercorrections]] include the concept of "nonstandard" in one way or another, so I literally contraindicated them all against use in formal writing, such as the style I am mostly using now. ::::::This may have not been the best choice, so for now I'm going to remove this specific generic direct categorization between slang and nonstandard terms per your proposal. However, I don't feel inspired or enlightened enough to replace the description of the slang categories with a better one, so feel free to do that, if you will. In particular, your distinction of "some [authorities?] might consider them non-standard, not that they necessarily are non-standard" might simply be part of it. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 16:10, 12 May 2011 (UTC) == The remaining lexical categories == There are a few lexical categories that haven't been moved over yet, the most prominent is [[:Category:Dialectal]], and its 'sister' [[:Category:Regionalisms]]. Maybe the former should be merged into [[:Category:Regional English]]? There is also [[:Category:English ethnic slurs]] which I moved over but I'm not sure if I did it right. Then there are [[:Category:Hyperforeign]], [[:Category:Cant]], [[:Category:Borrowed words by language]], [[:Category:Buzzwords]], [[:Category:English placeholder terms]], [[:Category:Jargon]], [[:Category:Short forms by language]], [[:Category:Text messaging]] and especially [[:Category:Slang]]. Could you see about creating new categories for those, I'm not sure how. —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 18:37, 12 May 2011 (UTC) :BTW I think it should be [[:Category:English Internet slang]] with a capital 'I' for Internet. See [[Internet]] and {{temp|Internet slang}}. Though, [[internet]] is usually considered a valid alternative. [[User:Mglovesfun|Mglovesfun]] ([[User talk:Mglovesfun|talk]]) 12:45, 14 May 2011 (UTC) :: Internet is a proper name in theory, but it is a normal noun at the same time. People sometimes talk about [[internets]] without trying to be silly. And I think overall, the lowercase form is used a lot more. Forcing users to type it in uppercase is just being pedantic IMO. :/ —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 12:57, 14 May 2011 (UTC) :::@CodeCat: While I already have a very good grasp of what categories lack templatization, it's certainly useful to have a list. Thanks for that; I'm working on them when I have the time. Also, if you try to templatize them on your own, I may simply improve them later as I've done before. In particular, "[[:Category:Regionalisms]]" would need to be renamed to "[[:Category:Regionalisms by language]]", but it would require a new template created virtually from scratch, because this category tree has specific characteristics. And [[:Category:Jargon]] remains untouched by this project (although it can be improved in other ways) because it contains names of literary styles (despite it being described as containing names of jargons). :::@Mglovesfun: I, personally, don't mind having either "internet" or "Internet" in category titles as long as we choose only one of them for all categories. Adapting them can be done, but it will take some (not much) effort, so at least it would be appropriate creating a poll for that — a poll, not a RFM discussion, because this matter is so trivial it can be quickly resolved by a democratic vote, instead of a pseudodemocratic discussion punctuated by boring arguments. The lowercase version is just the status quo. And it's prettier too. In fact, I like it more. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 13:15, 14 May 2011 (UTC) :::: If Jargon is going to stay, it would need to be recategorised at least, because as far as I know [[:Category:Lexicons]] is going to be deleted, right? —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 13:23, 14 May 2011 (UTC) :::::Right. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 13:33, 14 May 2011 (UTC) == Re: Orange things == Oh, I see. I wasn't aware that the intention was to have a second example of the colour. [[Commons:Category:Curry]] might be a good choice. But if you want to stay away from food, orange autumn leaves might do. --[[User:Mephiles602|Mephiles602]] 12:08, 17 May 2011 (UTC) :OK. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 12:18, 17 May 2011 (UTC) == poscatboiler == {{temp|poscatboiler}} still uses the older system with a switch containing all the possible values, whereas your newer templates seem to use {{temp|catboiler}} and subpages instead, which is much faster. Are you planning to migrate {{temp|poscatboiler}} to the new system sometime soon? —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 12:08, 17 May 2011 (UTC) :Yes, eventually. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 12:11, 17 May 2011 (UTC) :: Is there a way that I can help with that? Perhaps by creating the subpages already? —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 12:19, 17 May 2011 (UTC) :::I see you already started to do that. OK, that would help. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 14:28, 17 May 2011 (UTC) :::: I noticed that in some cases, there is something called foreignparent. What is that for exactly? How does it work in the new system? —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 14:34, 17 May 2011 (UTC) :::: And apparently there is also {{temp|poscatboiler2}} which has its own list. Is there a reason for that? —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 14:44, 17 May 2011 (UTC) :::::A "foreignparent" is a parent category that is recognized by a name, not by a code. It is used to have categories such as "Category:English language" as a parent. {{temp|poscatboiler2}} is just an excuse (of someone else) to have categories named "Category:<language> numbers" before a real consensus on the issue of numeral/number can be achieved. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 15:10, 17 May 2011 (UTC) :::::: Ok, so can probably ignore it. I think foreignparent becomes parentbyname in the new system? Oh, and I noticed a few templates have a subtemplate called OPTION. Is that important at all? —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 15:27, 17 May 2011 (UTC) :::::::Correct, parentbyname. OPTION is deprecated. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 15:36, 17 May 2011 (UTC) :::::::: I noticed that {{temp|langcatboiler/theList}} still transcludes {{temp|phrasecatboiler/theList}} so that it can put the description on the page. I'm not sure how to fix that, could you have a look? —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 15:55, 17 May 2011 (UTC) :::::::::Done. I fixed this issue simply by writing a definition. (Rather than by transcluding a template that does that.) --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 16:00, 17 May 2011 (UTC) :::::::::: Will you still be needing the old lists? I think they aren't used anymore... —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 20:20, 17 May 2011 (UTC) :::::::::::No, I won't need the old and deprecated lists. As far as I'm concerned, {{temp|phrasecatboiler}}, etc. can be deleted. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 20:57, 17 May 2011 (UTC) :::::::::::: I just found there is {{temp|posappboiler}} which is used on one page. Were you planning to use that for anything else? It still uses the list template. —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 19:27, 18 May 2011 (UTC) :::::::::::::No, I don't intend to use that specific template, posappboiler, anymore; it was just a test. There are better ways to do what it does. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 19:32, 18 May 2011 (UTC) == A problem with catboiler == There is a strange problem with catboiler. It marks categories for languages that contain an apostrophe as invalid, even though the names are right. So as a result, [[:Category:Categories needing attention]] is now full of entries... —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 12:37, 18 May 2011 (UTC) :I could fix that easily by implementing a small back-end kludge. This problem should disappear in a moment, once the server purges all the affected categories. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 12:54, 18 May 2011 (UTC) :: It looks like {{temp|suffixcat}} suffers from the same problem in [[:Category:English words suffixed with -'s]]. —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 13:42, 18 May 2011 (UTC) :::It's a bug of the software (MediaWiki) which I had to circumvent more than once in my experience. I fixed [[:Category:English words suffixed with -'s]] too now. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 14:07, 18 May 2011 (UTC) == Categorizing hyphenated words. == Hola. ¶ May I inquire if it is acceptable to categorize hyphenated words? [[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_terms_spelled_with_-]] has existed for a while, but it has rarely been utilised; I suspected that it has to be used for specific forms. ¶ Would it be too [[troublesome]] to quickly categorize hyphenated spellings? --[[User:Pilcrow|Pilcrow]] 18:49, 18 May 2011 (UTC) :Categorizing together all English terms that have a hyphen would be useful to fill a specific gap: it is not possible to search for them using [[Special:Search]]. :However, since this project apparently involves editing thousands of entries at once, please add a little explanation at [[WT:BP]] (like you explained to me now) to make sure people agree (or at least don't oppose) with that. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 19:01, 18 May 2011 (UTC) == Irregular nouns category == Hey there Daniel, I noticed a while ago you deleted pages like [[:Category:Aramaic nouns with irregular plurals]] and replaced links to it with categories like [[:Category:Aramaic irregular nouns]], but pages like [[:Category:Aramaic irregular plurals]] (which was the sister to the "nouns with irregular plurals" category) were kept. Is this now standard practice? There are categories like [[:Category:English nouns with irregular plurals]] (for singular forms) and its sister [[:Category:English irregular plurals]] (for plural forms), but there is no [[:Category:English irregular nouns]]. To put it less confusingly: * irregular nouns: [[:Category:Aramaic irregular nouns|Aramaic (exists)]] - [[:Category:English irregular nouns|English (never existed)]] * nouns with irregular plurals: [[:Category:Aramaic nouns with irregular plurals|Aramaic (deleted)]] - [[:Category:English nouns with irregular plurals|English (exists)]] * irregular plurals: [[:Category:Aramaic irregular plurals|Aramaic (exists)]] - [[:Category:English irregular plurals|English (exists)]] The "irregular nouns" category is a little ambiguous, since it doesn't specify what part of the noun is irregular. Other irregularities besides plurals exist, for example, [[:Category:Spanish nouns with irregular gender]] (Aramaic should also have an irregular gender category like this). I'm thinking there should be a general "irregular nouns" category, then have all those other ones (nouns with irregular plurals, irregular plurals, irregular gender) as subcategories, with some subcategories obviously overlapping onto others. What do you think? --[[User:334a|334a]] 03:41, 19 May 2011 (UTC) :I acknowledge the existence of these inconsistent categories, and I would appreciate if they could eventually fit a bigger system like most of our categories do. :In my experience, nobody (except a number of Wiktionary editors) ever says that the contents of [[:Category:Spanish nouns with irregular gender]] are "irregular nouns" or have an "irregular gender", because irregular nouns have irregular ''inflection''. Most of these Spanish nouns have regular inflections. They just have endings that make their genders unintuitive. :I like the idea of having a "Category:<Language> irregular nouns" for every language that have irregular nouns, without exception. However, the categories of "irregular genders" don't count for that purpose as irregular nouns. They should, in my opinion, be adapted to something more precise like "Category:Spanish nouns with counterintuitive genders" (and/or, even better, many categories like "Category:Spanish masculine nouns ending with -a"). :In particular, the names "Category:English plurals" and "Category:English irregular plurals" are bad because they could have members that are not nouns. A list of names that are better to me would include "Category:English noun plural forms" to mimic existing categories, and the more natural version "Category:Plural forms of English nouns". --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 12:13, 19 May 2011 (UTC) :: In theory, you could say that having a certain gender means that the noun is predicted to have a certain kind of inflection as well. And if the inflection doesn't match the gender, it is irregular. —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 12:41, 19 May 2011 (UTC) ::I think I agree with CodeCat, if I understand him/her correctly. I don't understand the point about "irregular nouns have irregular ''inflection''" and gender not falling into that category. Gender is a grammatical category (like number) and is a part of inflection. You can also have nouns that have irregular inflection in other places apart from number or gender, like case (e.g., [[Ζεύς]]). It's a little odd to only include number and case in the broad term "inflection" and leave gender out. ::I'm not sure how something like "Category:Spanish masculine nouns ending with -a" would work for languages not using the Latin alphabet. Would the "-a" part be in the native script or transliterated? What if a language marks gender in a different way? Say, an infix or a circumfix or some internal sound change? Something like "Category:Spanish nouns with counterintuitive genders" might be the better/more consistent way to go, though I still prefer the "irregular gender" one. ::I agree that "Category:English plurals" and "Category:English irregular plurals" are ambiguous. Something like "Category:English plural noun forms" and "Category:English irregular plural noun forms" might be better. --[[User:334a|334a]] 20:14, 19 May 2011 (UTC) :::If two languages (say, one that uses and other that doesn't use the Latin script) have two conflicting needs of categorization, we can simply do ''both''. Consistency is not a goal, consistency is a tool. :::The grammatical properties "gender" and "number" can, indeed, be represented by inflections in a number of words in a number of languages. However, [[:Category:Spanish nouns with irregular gender]] is not, I repeat, a list of words that have an irregular "inflection of gender". :::In this case, the gender is simply a convention of, among other things, deciding which of two definite articles should be used before a word. :::In Spanish, there are masculine nouns (preceded by "el") and feminine nouns (preceded by "la"): ''[[palabra]]'', for example, is a feminine noun because you would say ''la palabra''; ''[[idioma]]'', differently, is a masculine noun because you would say ''el idioma''. Both are also ''regular'' nouns because their plurals are formed by the addition of a letter ''-s'', as expected: ''palabras'' and ''idiomas''. :::Since most Spanish nouns that end with a letter "a" are preceded by the article "la", it is a good thing to have a list of nouns that end in "a" but are instead preceded by the article "el". It would be more-or-less like having a list of the ''English nouns that begin with written vowels but are preceded by the indefinite article a'', such as ''a user'' and ''a university. :::Note: In [[:Category talk:Spanish nouns with irregular gender]], the name of the category was shortly discussed between 2006 and 2007. --[[User:Daniel.|Daniel.]] 20:56, 19 May 2011 (UTC) == Phasebook categories in [[:Category:Fundamental]] == I noticed that the subcategories for phrasebooks are being put in the Fundamental category, even though they should go in [[:Category:Phrasebooks by language]]. Could you have a look at that please? Thank you! —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 23:29, 23 May 2011 (UTC) :By comparison with many other categories, I think the misplaced categories should be found at [[:Category:All phrasebooks]]. I fixed this problem this way. The server should take a while and just display the categorization correctly. --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel]] 19:27, 25 May 2011 (UTC) == antifeminism == I am attempting to restore neutralise the feminist bias present in a this ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifeminism]]) wikipedia article. Having seen your contribution in clarifying the definition on wiktionary, I was wondering if you could help. [[User:Dantai Amakiir|Dantai Amakiir]] 21:32, 24 May 2011 (UTC) :Yes, I think I'm better at improving Wiktionary than improving Wikipedia. That said, I'm not particularly interested in editing that article. In fact, I simply added a link to Wiktionary from it. --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel]] 03:05, 27 May 2011 (UTC) == Affix categories == I noticed that a few languages have a category for 'roots', and a while ago I created {{temp|rootcatboiler}}. But now I realise that the affix and root categories have something in common, they are all related to the morphology of a word. So do you think it would be a good idea to replace {{temp|affixcatboiler}} with {{temp|morphcatboiler}} so that it is more general? I was also wondering about possible categories for suffixes that create specific parts of speech. Such as noun suffixes, verb suffixes and so on. Since they combine morphology and part of speech, which catboiler template should they go in? —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 11:02, 27 May 2011 (UTC) :I support the idea of replacing {{temp|affixcatboiler}} by {{temp|morphcatboiler}}. :We already have [[:Category:Finnish verbal suffixes]] and [[:Category:Finnish nominal suffixes]], instead of [[:Category:Finnish verb suffixes]] and [[:Category:Finnish noun suffixes]]. I support the basic idea of having categories for these concepts, as long as all languages use the same naming system. :The best catboiler for "Category:English verb suffixes" or "Category:English verbal suffixes" would be {{temp|morphcatboiler}}, not {{temp|poscatboiler}}, because suffixes are not parts of speech, regardless of their properties of forming parts of speech. --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel]] 18:17, 27 May 2011 (UTC) :: I've created {{temp|morphcatboiler}} and moved the list entries from {{temp|affixcatboiler}} into it. But I wonder what the top-level category should be called. Should it be morphology, morphologies or something else? And how do I make it so that it's called morphology if that's the case? —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 18:38, 27 May 2011 (UTC) :: Ok you already answered the above question... But I have another. What should be done with the affix categories themselves? I have now put its subcategories into morphemes instead, so that makes the old category redundant. I think it's better that way because most languages won't need a roots category, and in that case affixes would be the only entry in morphemes, which is a bit silly. —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 18:54, 27 May 2011 (UTC) :::I agree with your idea of deprecating "Category:English affixes" that way. We don't need it anymore, because we have "Category:English morphemes" as a better top-level category. --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel]] 18:58, 27 May 2011 (UTC) :::: I noticed that a few affix categories contain entries rather than just categories. They are now in [[:Category:Categories needing attention]]. Could you have a look at that? I'm not really sure what to do with them, most of them use 'Affix' as a part of speech header too. —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 19:11, 27 May 2011 (UTC) :::::Apparently you solved this problem by recategorizing "Category:<language> affixes" to"Category:<language> morphemes". Good job. I think it would be a good idea to do the same for the last of these categories: [[:Category:Mandarin affixes]]. --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel]] 06:26, 29 May 2011 (UTC) == [[:Category:Portuguese verbs needing conjugation]] == Do you fancy having a go at some of these? I don't mind doing some, it's more that I can only assume for verbs such as {{term|combinar|lang=pt}} that it will be {{temp|pt-verb|combin|ar}}. Where as you will know for sure. [[User:Mglovesfun|Mglovesfun]] ([[User talk:Mglovesfun|talk]]) 10:54, 28 May 2011 (UTC) :OK, I'm helping with that piecemeal. Many of these, however, are just populated by {{temp|pt-verb}}, and their parameters can be copied from {{temp|pt-conj}} of the same entries. --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel]] 18:03, 2 June 2011 (UTC) == {{temp|ja-kanjitab}} == Just curious - what are you going to do about entries with more than one kanji in some parameters, such as [[煙突掃除夫]]? [[User:Ultimateria|Ultimateria]] 00:47, 30 May 2011 (UTC) :Subdividing these parameters into individual kanji, of course. It's a kanji tab, not a derivation tab, and as far as I know the project of making it a derivation tab was one-sided, undiscussed and only implemented on a small number of Japanese entries. :The entry [[煙突掃除夫]] already mentions [[煙突]] and [[掃除夫]] in its etymology. The tab should simply mention [[煙]], [[突]], [[掃]], [[除]] and [[夫]] separately. --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel]] 01:32, 30 May 2011 (UTC) ::I'll start splitting them up and deleting categories with multiple kanji. [[User:Ultimateria|Ultimateria]] 01:46, 30 May 2011 (UTC) :::Thank you for your help. --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel]] 02:44, 30 May 2011 (UTC) Could you get the template to accommodate 14 kanji? For [[慢性原発性副腎皮質機能低下症]]. [[User:Ultimateria|Ultimateria]] 16:28, 30 May 2011 (UTC) :Of course I can. It's done. --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel]] 16:43, 30 May 2011 (UTC) ::Thanks. [[User:Ultimateria|Ultimateria]] 16:45, 30 May 2011 (UTC) I thought you should know that in the Japanese spelled with _ categories, where it should link to the character, it shows the character correctly but actually links to [[1#Japanese]]. [[User:Ultimateria|Ultimateria]] 18:18, 3 June 2011 (UTC) :Ugh. I fixed the template now. It should take a moment for the software to update and fix all categories automatically. --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel]] 18:29, 3 June 2011 (UTC) == Buridan's ass == Why do you think that [[Buridan's ass]] is a proper noun? It is usually classified as a noun, though I have seen the form "Buridan's Ass". I noticed that you didn't change [[Schrödinger's cat]] to a proper noun.--[[User:Leolaursen|Leo Laursen]] – ([[User talk:Leolaursen|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Leolaursen|contribs]]) 09:42, 30 May 2011 (UTC) :Since I received your message, I provided some citations to the entries, as examples of: "Buridan's ass" as a proper noun, "Buridan's Ass" as a proper noun, and "Schrödinger's cat" as a noun and proper noun. --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel]] 11:10, 30 May 2011 (UTC) ::OK. I can't see how a sentence beginning with "A hypothetical donkey" can describe a proper noun, though it is somewhat reasonable to regard (the name of) "a philosophical paradox" as such. (I still say noun, but don't really care).--[[User:Leolaursen|Leo Laursen]] – ([[User talk:Leolaursen|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Leolaursen|contribs]]) 13:09, 30 May 2011 (UTC) == about normal re‐directions == Hola senhor Carrero. ¶ A point I did not mention earlier was that I could not understand why typical re‐directs [http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=A%E2%88%92&redirect=no such as this] are permitted even if they may not be widely linked to, but template re‐directions are more reserved. Unless I am mistaken in this assumption, may I please know the reasoning for this? ¶ On a different note: I should also thank you for your patience with myself, and I am sorry about my dramatic comments. When I am depressed, I feel very [[pessimistic]]. --[[User:Pilcrow|Pilcrow]] 01:06, 31 May 2011 (UTC) :There are popular types of redirects and reasons to create them. Notably, phrases with variable components often have redirects written with pronouns: [[save his bacon]] and [[save her bacon]] redirect to [[save someone's bacon]]. :Both [[A−]] to [[A-]] should exist as nonredirects, because both are (hopefully) attestable. I turned the redirect into an "alternative form" entry after you sent the message above. :Alternatively, I could just leave the redirect from [[A−]] to [[A-]] simply because they are the "same" entry: arguably, they are written with exactly the same characters. Possibly, all printed sources that attest one of them also automatically attest the other, because what separates these entries is virtually only their codes in [[Unicode]]. This argument could also be used to turn "[[...]]" into a redirect to "[[…]]", among a number of other examples of possible redirects by identicalness. :This alternative rationale is especially valid for the [[long s]]: If I remember correctly, a consensus of many months ago indicated that [[perſon]] should be a redirect to [[person]]. :This alternative rationale is not, however, valid in all situations and all languages. In Japanese, "々" is simply a repetition of the last character, but even taking this fact into consideration, we have both [[人人]] and [[人々]] anyway as individual and arguably identical entries. :As different examples, [[pl.]] is a redirect to [[plural]], and [[R.I.P.]] is a redirect to [[RIP]]. They are "permitted", but not encouraged; having redirects is better than having nothing, so deleting them is not an option. The redirects are attestable abbreviations, so they should eventually become individual entries. :You're welcome. --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel]] 02:45, 31 May 2011 (UTC) ::¶ You mentioned re‐directing between forms with [[ſ]]; in many of the citation‐pages I creäted, I will include the forms with the long‐s in them, such as [[Citations:phantastick|this]] and [[Citations:solœcism|this]]. I was thinking I should leave them out of the <nowiki>{{citations}}</nowiki> templates because it might be redundant. --[[User:Pilcrow|Pilcrow]] 03:09, 31 May 2011 (UTC) :::This is a minor issue, so I think you can decide by yourself. I suggest, however, doing what I did at [[Citations:solœcism]] to make "ſolœciſm" be black text rather than a link. --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel]] 03:49, 31 May 2011 (UTC) ::::¶Ah, that is how to do it! Originally I wanted to make it dark text rather than a red link, but I could not figure out how to since the methods I used would mess up the appearance. Thank you, sir! I will adjust my other citation pages accordingly. --[[User:Pilcrow|Pilcrow]] 03:54, 31 May 2011 (UTC) ---- ¶ I noticed that the citation pages I changed now contain the category 'Citations of undefined terms', which I do not desire. Is there a method to work around this without re‐moving the other [[ſ]]pellings mentioned in the citation templates? --[[User:Pilcrow|Pilcrow]] 05:42, 1 June 2011 (UTC) :I fixed this bug now. I think this miscategorization won't happen again. --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel]] 06:37, 1 June 2011 (UTC) == A small change to catboiler == I've made a small change to catboiler, so that the umbrella root category is now always sorted at the top of the fundamental category. It makes it a little easier to find. —[[User:CodeCat|CodeCa]][[User talk:CodeCat|t]] 21:28, 31 May 2011 (UTC) :OK. --[[User:Daniel Carrero|Daniel]] 05:06, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
