Talk:Trap

message: An ip colleague recently tackled an earlier 3-link entry, rewording
: * Thought to be a pejorative term for transgender and transexual people, often used to describe men who look the same as a woman. See Passing (gender)
as
: * Pejorative term for trans women and drag queens who can be mistaken for cis women. See Passing (gender). which does nothing toward making it acceptable.
(By the way, while cis is indeed the perfect complement to trans, only gender-/sexual-minority persons, organic chemists, and students of 19th-century European geography are like be clueful about that.) These two takes on the key issue each acknowledge the role (but not that it is the sole role) of any Dab entry (namely, to disambiguate), which imposes two requirements:
:# aiding the user in recognizing the distinction (from other senses) of the sense of the dab'd term which they have in mind, and
:# avoiding distractions that do not contribute to the task specified by the first requirement.
(Note especially that Dab entries are finding guides, not usage guides.) These imply our requirement that
: every dab entry has exactly one blue link,
: and it may have exactly one red link in addition, only in the (very rare) cases where we probably could link to a more pertinent future article -- which upon creation would turn the red link blue, and mandate that the older blue link be eliminated from the Dab entry.
   I make no claim of being prepared to create the perfect dab entry for this sense, but my own rewording should facilitate any improvements by others, as i offer the following red+blue-link entry:
* "Trap", partner potentially mistakenly chosen due to their passing for a different gender
Of course the entry would need rewriting once such an additional article is created, and such a red-gone-blue link's title would IMO more likely than not be rewritten to better characterize its so-far hypothetical content.
If usage actually is restricted to female-seeking males, and/or other combinations (as IMO previously at least hinted), that is a matter to take up in the article, not on the dab page: i repeat, a finding guide and not a usage guide.--Jerzy•t 08:21, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two re-wordings 

message: This is a disambiguation-page, so intended to dab words that are spelled alike, but mean something different. The page should not dive into the meaning an sich. So the section "Types of traps" is be eliminated here: it does nothing to dab, it is only specifying "Trap" (first meaning). I have moved the list to Trap (tactic), and the items could be in the :Category:Trap. -DePiep (talk) 19:47, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The usage "an sich" (roughly "in itself" or per se) is usually found in German or in philosophical discourse, including in phrases borrowed, like Ding an sich (thing in itself or ... unto itself), from German.--Jerzy•t 08:39, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal delete or remove section "Types of traps" 

message: Quite confused by the many disambiguity pages with "trap". "The trap" being another page than "trap". Perhaps a more stringent view could be found. — Fritz Jörn (talk) 08:44, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Confusing volume) 

message: Only few of the entries on the Trapping (disambiguation) article have target articles that only/primarily use the "...ing" conjugation or even specifically mention it at all, whereas many cases the root form is just conjugated in certain grammar contexts. I removed a few. But now looking more broadly, the root trap disambiguation page also includes items that are commonly used in the "...ing" form as well as root, including the WP:PRIMARY for "trapping" itself. Makes it hard for readers/DAB-resolvers to find what they want if they have to guess at alternate grammars rather than more one-stop shop. DMacks (talk) 10:40, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Trapping (disambiguation)]] 

message: Article missing reference under the Sports section to Trap shooting.  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_shooting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ‎ 67.161.48.161 (talk) 21:07, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Added. DMacks (talk) 21:15, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Trap shooting) 

message: Within the body building community your "traps" refer to the trapezius muscle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapezius). Perhaps a noteworthy addition? 84.241.199.153 (talk) 10:20, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Body building