Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Glossaries

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thread_title:  Coordinating Portal:Contents pages 

message: How are we justifying the goals of this project, given the clear statement at WP:NOT that: Wikipedia is not a dictionary?  What are the differences between glossaries and dictionaries? (to me they seem to be the same thing... am I wrong?). Blueboar (talk) 16:47, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Answering at Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not#Glossaries. (Please link to ongoing threads when they are relevant. I only found that by accident!)  -- Quiddity (talk) 19:16, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  From Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary#Wikipedia is not a usage guide "Some articles are encyclopedic glossaries...".  Also see Wikipedia:Lists#Types of lists. Bubba73 (talk), 02:32, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  This project and [[WP:NOT]] 

message: Please add anything relevant. -- Quiddity (talk) 21:55, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old threads 

message: In the old 2006 threads, we discussed the notion that "glossaries" and "word lists" were separate entities, and that "word lists" were suitable for transfer to Wiktionary:Appendices. 
See Wikipedia talk:What Wikipedia is not/Archive 7#arbitrary section break inserted to aid editing 2 in particular, where I said something like: topic/field specific glossaries, such as Architectural glossary, Glossary of dance moves, Glossary of ballet, Musical terminology, and Glossary of poetry terms, belong at Wikipedia. But, word lists, such as Glossary of sexual slurs and List of online-gaming slang and List of Chicano Caló words and expressions and Australian rhyming slang should be moved to Wiktionary... 
(not just get deleted, as was the fate of the former list of words ending in -logy when it was recently split into List of sciences ending in -logy and List of non-sciences ending in -logy (worth a deletion review to get it properly moved across, maybe? I have no time).
Discuss. ;) -- Quiddity (talk) 22:42, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scope - word lists vs glossaries 

message: Please see Talk:Chinook_Jargon#re_.7B.7Btl.7CWikiProject_Glossaries.7D.7D and in general other discussions on that page on the word list the article contains.Skookum1 (talk) 18:40, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Chinook Jargon]] article issues re list/glossary

message: I am thinking of proposing all the subpages at :Category:Library of Congress Classification for deletion, as they are not encyclopedia articles, they simply repeat the classification. Wikisource has all this information: as does the Library of Congress:. Fences&Windows 00:55, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: But they link to the relevant wikipedia articles (for example, navigate down to Georgia and you'll get a link to the country or the US state depending on which category you are in).  Isn't that the point? That makes at least as much sense to me as trying to invent our own classification (see Portal:Contents/Outline of knowledge) Kingdon (talk) 02:12, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: But this means they're not articles about the classification, they are a mirror of the classification. Wikipedia doesn't really need all its articles categorised in yet another way, surely? If someone wants to do that, they'd be better off as a Portal. Fences&Windows 00:46, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Deleting subpages of [[Library of Congress Classification]]

message: Are any of the Glossaries a featured list? Would like to consider getting Glossary of chess as a FL but at this stage would like to see some other FL quality glossaries to see what standard is required. SunCreator (talk) 22:56, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any of the Glossaries a [[Wikipedia:Featured_lists|Featured List(FL)]] 

message: Members of this WikiProject are invited to comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Spanish words of Italic origin. I have jointly nominated both that page and List of Spanish words of African origin. Neither page seems to satisfy the definition of "glossary" at WP:LIST. Cnilep (talk) 17:38, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  AfD nomination for List of Spanish words of Italic origin 

message: The word "aficionado" seems to be missing from the list.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.75.171.121 (talk) 18:15, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aficionado 

message: I have proposed renaming Mathematical jargon to the glossary format. Please see the discussion on the talk page. Verbal chat 10:12, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Mathematical jargon]] rename 

message: nominated List of English words containing Q not followed by U for featured list removal here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 22:45, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  FAR 

message: This needs some attention - it's a list of words, very few of them defined, none of them linked to appropriate WP articles. Doesn't look very useful. PamD (talk) 22:31, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Glossary of phytopathology]] 

message: Please see:  Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of English words of Italian origin.  Although the article links to this project I don't think it's really a glossary since it is based on the origin of the words rather than on their meanings. Borock (talk) 19:15, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: AfD

message: I created List of foods and drinks named after places. I later saw that three sections of List of words derived from toponyms overlapped with it. I think the independent article is worthwhile, but if editors prefer to merge, so be it. -- JohnWBarber (talk) 21:05, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: New article: "List of foods and drinks named after people"

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thread_title:  Proposal to change a section title 

message: Hello Project!
I came across a glossary called Glossary of military modeling and simulation. It is quite painful to look at and it doesn't seem to come close to your current version of WP:MOSGLOSS (although I realize you all are currently working on it). Could one of the members take a look at it and see if it does fall into the scope of the WP:WPGLOSS project? Thanks! ChadH (talk) 17:58, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It's within scope, and yes, it's a mess. It's done up in 1995-style table markup.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  14:52, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

text: Five years later, this is still a mess. power~enwiki (π, ν) 19:22, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Glossary of military modeling and simulation]] 

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message: The acceptability of glosaries as stand-alone lists is the subject of a current RfC at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia is not a dictionary#Glossaries. G. C. Hood (talk) 23:50, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  RfC concerning glossaries 

message: An AfD debate for this glossary is in progress at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Glossary of terms in the Jean le Flambeur series. Readers here may wish to comment. The discussion is likely to close soon -- the AfD was initiated  23 February 2013. --Pete Tillman (talk) 19:57, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  AfD for [[Glossary of terms in the Jean le Flambeur series]] 

message: The List of Romanian words of possible Dacian origin article has been proposed for deletion. It is similar to the articles under :Category:Lists of English words, particularly List of English words from indigenous languages of the Americas and :Category:Lists of English words of Celtic origin, and could act as a precedent. Your opinions are welcomed.--Codrin.B (talk) 14:48, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Dear Codrinb, how could the deletion of this article serve as precedent for deleting the other lists? The title of those lists does not contain weasel word and those lists are based on peer-reviewed reliable sources. Borsoka (talk) 16:05, 17 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[List of Romanian words of possible Dacian origin]] 

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thread_title:  Leaflet for Wikiproject Glossaries at Wikimania 2014 

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message: Please see WP:Templates for discussion/Log/2014 October 22#Glossary templates (and the related WP:Templates for discussion/Log/2014 October 20#Template:Gbq), as the outcome will strongly affect this project and MOS:GLOSSARIES.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  18:55, 22 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  All of the glossary templates have been nominated for deletion 

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message: Just a heads up about an AfD. It's a glossary but wasn't tagged with this wikiproject's banner when nominated.
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Glossary of Australian Scouting terms — Rhododendrites talk \\ 14:56, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notice of AfD 

message: Draft:Fashion Glossary is in the WP:AfC queue for review.  I'm not familiar with our treatment of glossaries, so I'm requesting somebody who knows more about them review this draft.  Thanks.  -- RoySmith (talk) 16:45, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: They're certainly not exempt from WP:CV . – Joe (talk) 16:58, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, well, that was simple :-)  -- RoySmith (talk) 17:02, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Draft:Fashion Glossary]] in need of review 

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thread_title:  Background 

message: Hello. I recently started working on a glossary of cooking terms, and then discovered that there was a List of cooking techniques page that covered the same information. Should I rename this page to "Glossary of cooking techniques" and convert it to a template-structured glossary page? Or is that being needlessly pedantic? I'm a noob to to the glossary WikiProject, so I'm not fully aware of the benefits - I'm just looking for an interesting project. (I've also asked on the List of cooking techniques Talk page, so hopefully I will get some guidance either here or there.) Thanks! Jenniferz (talk) 23:34, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Convert existing list page to glossary? 

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message: The Glossary of ice hockey terms needs conversion to a template structure...I'm a bit lost, though, on how to do that.  If there is a simple way that I'm just missing could someone let me know?  Many thanks...Primergrey (talk) 20:54, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: , It should be quite quick and easy with the find and replace editing tool using regular expressions, but I am unable to compose the right regex for you. Maybe  can help. (the regex could be handy if recorded somewhere linked from this page). Or maybe there is a script for this? Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 08:56, 15 July 2022 (UTC)

text: The glossary looks fine the way it is. Nice and simple, and easy to edit. No need to make the format more complicated.    — The Transhumanist    07:23, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conversion  

message: How does one best deal with multiple alphabetically distinct (not adjacent in order) terms with the same definition?
Do we choose one term to provide the definition and all the rest get an internal glossary link to the defined term? 
If so, how do we determine the one term which gets defined? The first alphabetically? The estimated most commonly used? 
Alternatively, should they all be listed as multiple terms at one place, with the shared definition following?
A combination, where the definition is preceded by the "primary" term, but lists all the options?, but each optional term is alphabetically listed, with an internal link? If so, where does the listing of the options go? in a hatnote?
A possible solution:
*Each term is listed in alphabetical order
*The "Primary" (first alphabetically, or most commonly used) is followed by a hatnote listing all the other terms with the same meaning, and the definition. eg 
*:
*:
*:
*The other options each only have a hatnote glossary internal link to the primary term. I assume this should be in the definition template, eg 
*:
*:
*: etc
Rendering:
 
 
etc.
Are there any obvious reasons why this would be a problem, or better solutions? Cheers · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 09:21, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Things with several names 

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thread_title:  Requested move at [[Talk:List of loanwords in Sri Lankan Tamil#Requested move 14 April 2024]]