Wikipedia talk:Nuttall Encyclopedia topics

message: Personally, I prefer the old lists. I think that they are more managable because they are smaller, and there is a greater sense of achievement working on them. User:Danny)
:thats fine, but it is surely not worth pruning them as well though? it is of course your choice. thanks Bluemoose 21:46, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

message: Many Nuttall entries are just notions from Carlyle's works. I would propose to not include them, since IMHO this would be to much and not in today's encyclopedic interests.--J heisenberg 15:41, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: And characters from Sheridan plays. The plays themselves are in WP of course. While WP is already full of minor rubbish (for example, every minor character from every video game ever written, it appears), I see no reason to compound that. I'm for exclusion, so long as this Talk page lists (a) an objective criterion for exclusion (b) the exclusions. And we err on the side of inclusion. David Brooks 17:15, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

text: I should have added: I'm only for this if the "notion" in question is mentioned in the Thomas Carlyle article (or the article about the particular Sheridan play). David Brooks 23:18, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've not seem many of these but when I did it seemed clear that the "redirect and mention in supra-topic" was the obvious way to go. Is that what you are proposing? Pcb21| Pete 07:22, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Carlyle]]

message: I'm trying to calculate the new percentage done, but I don't know how many entries we started with from Nuttall.  Considering the page on Nuttall Encyclopedia says over 16,000, I'll just use 16,000 until I hear a more precise figure... Womble 05:47, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original Number of Entries? 

message: If you haven't heard yet, Jimbo pulled the Encarta lists due to possible copyright violations. EB2004 was apparently pulled, but has now been restored (for the time being).
It looks like the Encarta page might come back, but only after a merge with lists from other encyclopedias. If you'd like a plain copy of the lists for Nuttall, Hutchinson, EB1911, EB2004, etc..., I'd suggest that you download a copy now. You might not get a chance later. Womble 09:41, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Encarta lists deleted 

message: Some of the entries we have created are being marked as dicdefs, usually a valid judgement. I think we should regard a Nuttall entry as "done" if it has a matching entry in either WP or Wiktionary, so long as the entry has at least as much material as Nuttall (not hard!). If it's in Wiktionary, please notate that fact in the list itself or in the comments entry as an audit trail. Deal? David Brooks 05:23, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there some _easy_ way to search both the Wikipedia and Wiktionary namespace?  Because until the two work together more smoothly it would be nice if stuff that should go in Wiktionary had a redirect from Wikipedia to the dictionary def. Womble 22:07, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: One way, easy or not is to create another search of the English Wikitionary.  This of course would add to load time, but for the small pages on Nutall I don't think it would be a problem.  I prefer using google site searches because they will not be "down for performance reasons". Reflex Reaction 16:47, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No, not that -- sorry, I wasn't clear.  What I meant was that if a user is coming to Wikipedia to look up things, they probably don't want to have to think "Is this going to be in the encyclopedia or the dictionary?" -- What would be nice is a way to search through multiple namespaces at the same time and then get results from each of them... then they can choose if they want the Wikipedia article on Depression, or the Wiktionary article on Depression (just to pick a word ;-). Something like the interface at Answers.com where you get a blurb from each article would work well... Womble 19:30, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dicdefs 

message: Nicely done, everyone. Womble 18:54, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Under 1000 to go!

message: Please do not edit article names to include accents without making the plain-text version a redirect. Wikipedia's search engine will not find Foobaré if you search for Foobare.  If you think the plain-text version is an archaic spelling or might be an error in Nuttall, just add a note to the commit message. Something like "Nuttall redirect; archaic spelling of name" or "Nuttall redirect (Nuttall spelled name incorrectly)". Womble 19:23, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Do not edit article names in place

message: I strongly disagree with "In these lists, accents have been removed and umlauts have been converted into e's (for example: the Nuttall entry "HACKLÄNDER" is called "Hacklaender"). Create the article at the proper name, including accents and umlauts; and create a redirect at the accent-less location. This is important."
AFAIK, most native English speakers don't use/know words by their diacritic versions, so "Hacklaender" is probably a more common name than "HACKLÄNDER". Waterguy 19:28, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well that would be against wikipedia common practice/policy. Martin - The non-blue non-moose 19:34, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

text: As long as there are non-accented redirects put in, such as Bozo and Boezo for Bözo, does that solve the problem? Womble 23:27, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Generally, diacritics don't fit under the 'common names' policy for article titles

message: There are a lot of (mostly historic) expressions, like Cousin Michael. Should we make a "list of historical expressions" or everyone have an own page?--J heisenberg 16:06, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I definately don't think they need an article each, a "list of historical expressions" sounds like a good idea, although I would suspect we have something similar already, if not then one could be created. Martin 16:32, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Found the List of idioms in the English language. I'll add them there.--J heisenberg 18:06, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Sayings & Expressions

message: Hey, Magnus, did I miss a discussion of this merge? A little while back we voted for small lists over the four large lists. I admit it's more manageable now that we are under 1000 articles, but I was looking looking forward to that sense of accomplishment Danny was talking about, as I worked slowly through the D's. David Brooks 17:02, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You could re-section them alphebetically. Martin 17:14, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  The merge 

message: Nice work, folks.  What's our goal by Halloween? Under 100, perhaps...?  ;-) Womble 15:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: 120 right now, we almost made it. -- Kjkolb 04:23, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Under 500

message: I see a lot of "Expand" notes on the list next to blue links. Is this really our focus? As far as I understand it, we want "to ensure that Wikipedia has a corresponding article for every article in every other encyclopedia" (project mission statement). For this list, I read this as creating contents as "Nuttall + X", a good stub at least, a real article at best, but usually something in between. For expanding articles, there's . While we should aim at writing good articles, IMHO we should remove existing articles from the list, as long as they at least contain the information from Nuttall. --Magnus Manske 13:06, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Concur. Pcb21| Pete 13:18, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's unanimous. David Brooks 19:35, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expand? 

message: There's a hard core of problematic articles emerging. You know the ones I mean. Perhaps we need an article "List of mostly archaic expressions used in England in the early years of the 20th century". The title could probably be snappier, but you get the idea. Perhaps it already exists. Then we could just tip into it a lot of one-liners like:
:* Blue-gown: in Scotland a beggar, a bedesman of the king, who wore a blue gown, the gift of the king, and had his license to beg.
and clear a lot of these in one swell foop. Anyone want to be bold, come up with a convincing title, and do this?
BTW what's the difference between a blue-gown and a gaberlunzie? David Brooks 22:52, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: makes sense to me.   Archaic 19th century english expressions Rick Boatright 02:29, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Standardization suggests List of archaic English expressions? I bet that article would turn into an interesting piece actually - certainly better than the sum of its parts? Pcb21| Pete 12:08, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: To make it even more interesting, search through the archives for other expressions that have already been given a (dubious) redirect to another article on the same concept, or created as a pseudo-dicdef. But that takes organization, or a dedicated volunteer! David Brooks 15:59, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There is the List of (non-archaic) idioms in the English language--J heisenberg 17:34, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

text: The term Archaic would include expressions back to, oh, Chaucer, which is a much more interesting but huge list. I was thinking of just a list of end-19th-century expressions, unless someone wants to kick off the huge list instead. David Brooks 19:23, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

text: OK - this weekend I'll create either List of 19th century English expressions or List of archaic English expressions with a at least one, 19th century subhead. I prefer the first; I guess Pete prefers the second. Any other votes? My feeling is Pete's list is a wonderful challenge but calls out for at least three dimensions of organization: period of currency, degree of formality (literary versus colloquial), part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, expletive - oh those Shakespearian expletives!). My suggestion at least reduces that to part of speech and formality. David Brooks 04:16, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a good point. I am happy to start with 19th century and then maybe get more aggressive in scope later on. I've mostly been doing hotlist stuff recently so am not so up to speed on which Nuttall entries this is going to apply to anyway... Pcb21| Pete 11:14, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I went with List of 19th century English language idioms and working on it now. David Brooks 22:51, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gather up all the expressions 

message: A lot of entries seem to have stricken entries and then a diacritically correct version next to the struck version. The notes page correctly states that we should create redirects in this case. Are the strike-outs there as a relic of when we didn't have this guideline? Pcb21| Pete 14:21, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I started striking out ones that didn't have correct diacritics, etc... and putting the correct link to the right. Some people had been editing the links in place, and I was trying to keep both accented and non-accented versions, while indicating that the primary article should have the accented name... but you're right -- there's probably a better way to mark those up.  Suggestions?  Womble 18:50, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: <strike>Striking</strike>

message: Please go here and say why deleting the Nuttall category is insane. thanks Martin 12:00, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd like to defend it, but I'm not sure I can. If you think the article maintains an obsolete POV, you can (and should!) use . I think we can keep , but just expand it to an italicized blurb. On the other hand (there is one, of course), why isn't the 1911 Britannica category also listed for demolition? And I suppose the 488-entry Nuttall category does give us some bragging rights... David Brooks 21:25, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed deletion of Nuttall category 

message: Looks like Womble's prediction for Halloween was just off.  Thanks to everyone who has worked on this project you have been doing a great job.  Even I'm getting into creating articles and pruning!  Let's make this a completed project.  --Reflex Reaction (talk)• 01:40, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Under 100

message: I'm having trouble understanding the conversation under the Cimber entry.  Why can't Cimber be Lucius Tillius Cimber?  The cognomen can be used as shorthand if the nomen gentile is too common to be useful (cf. Cicero).  L. Tillius Cimber is mentioned as one of the assasins of Caesar by Harry Thurston Peck.  I don't know if there's enough information to write an article about the guy, but I believe the information on the Cimber disambig page is correct or close enough.  Please correct me if there are other reasons to think I'm wrong.  Chick Bowen 14:38, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cimber