Talk:Ditloid

message: How's about: Pairs of Wikipedia pages which reference each other? ‎  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.122.47.162 (talk) 21:55, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible new page here!

message: This should be changed to meet wikipedia's quality standards. 82.43.137.216 (talk) 15:10, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  This looks like an advert 

message: If the purpose of the list of ditloids is to illustrate the concept, there do not need to be so many.
On the other hand, if the purpose is to provide the reader with a bunch of ditloids to test themself on, then putting the question and the answer on the same line of text is "unhelpful", since they cannot read the question without seeing the answer.  A format something like what follows would be better, IMO.
26 = L. of the A. 
::(26 = Letters of the Alphabet)
7 = W. of the A.W. 
::(7 = Wonders of the Ancient World)
1,001 = A.N. 
::(1,001 = Arabian Nights)
12 = S. of the Z. 
::(12 = Signs of the Zodiac)
Or put all the answers in a separate list below the questions. CBHA (talk) 21:01, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The purpose of the two short lists in the article is to show how the art form evolved in the early years. Canon (talk) 21:45, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Format of list 

message: If anyone can find a reference to this, it would probably make a useful addition to the article.Daqu (talk) 07:19, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The origin of the term is given in the first paragraph. —Angr 07:24, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the origin of the word "ditloids" ? 

message: I agree that this article should be citing more sources than just the Ditloid Droid page. Amongst other problems, the "rules" given are just the Droid's take on them, not the generally-accepted ones.
In particular, "Common words such as 'the', 'in', 'a', 'an', 'of', 'to', etc. are not normally abbreviated." This is not true of DiTLoIDs I've come across elsewhere, and indeed is not true of the archetypal DiTLoID, which under that "rule" would have to be presented as "1=D in the L of ID". I suspect this "rule" was invented by the author of the Droid, to make the puzzles easier and thus more likely to be solved by the Droid. — 92.41.16.102 (talk) 12:41, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Single-source concern 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Not sure if it would be appropriate to add this Letter Equation Solver as an external link? --Jameboy (talk) 01:54, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Letter Equation Solver 

message: I haven't read the article about Will Shortz, but all this history seems not historic and not relevant. Although "OR", I was doing these quizzes (not by the name ditloid) as a child in the 1960s. And they were never "maths", always, just identify the phrase. So what is with the history section? -- SGBailey (talk) 11:27, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  History strange