Talk:Homo (disambiguation)

message: I just want to add that its offensive in Canada, too; likely, its offensive else where but I just live in Canada....so.
Thanks
68.148.165.213 19:14, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Already done. —Ruud 19:35, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
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message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Homo (genus) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RM bot 04:30, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: Canadians do in fact use the term homo milk, as anyone who has lived in Canada knows. Googling the term "homo milk" in quotes brings up many sites confirming this, such as 
http://americansguide.ca/isms.html and http://www.torontomike.com/2009/11/homo_milk.html. The dubious tag should therefore be removed from the homo disambiguation page.Porphyry Jones (talk) 06:36, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, why did someone mark that as dubious? Did they think it was some kind of joke about Canadians? (If so, it's not a very good joke.) I'm removing that tag. 99.227.60.109 (talk) 23:57, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Homo Milk 

message: The following text should appear elsewhere; it is too detailed relative to the remaining bullets, and in general (esp. the list of examples):
:" i.e., one noncyclic carbon more (and similarly "dihomo-" meaning two noncyclic carbons more) – examples include: 
:** Dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid
:** Homochlorcyclizine
:** Homovanillic acid"
This information can be moved to the linked main articles. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 17:46, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text moved here to Talk, from overly long, overly detailed Homo/homolog disambiguation entry 

message: Add this back later when article appears:
"* Homo (surname), a French surname originating from Brittany and Normandy, borrowed from church Latin"
Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 18:00, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving surname entry here, because no linked article exists 

message: The following pages are inconsistent..
Hetero (disambiguation) v.s. this page.
wiktionary:hetero v.s. wiktionary:homo.
On wiktionary:hetero.. "(informal) Heterosexual"
On wiktionary:homo.. "(colloquial, often derogatory) Clipping of homosexual"
On Hetero (disambiguation).. "Heterosexuality, attraction towards the opposite sex"
On this page.. ""Homo (slang), an abbreviation for "homosexual", generally offensive""
It makes no sense that even though both hetero and homo have identical roots, namely they were both coined by Karl-Maria Kertbeny in 1868, they are described with such bias. Wikipedia should contain information, not "popular" opinion. Information in this case would be using these words as they were meant in their origin, which would mean the following changes..
.. changing "colloquial" to "informal" on wiktionary:homo
.. removing "often derogatory" on wiktionary:homo
.. changing ""Homo (slang), an Homo (slang), an abbreviation for "homosexual", generally offensive" to "Homosexuality, attraction towards the opposite sex" 31.20.106.40 (talk) 17:33, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistency across many wikipedia pages even though they have identical roots