On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:23 AM, David Levy <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve Bennett wrote: > >> > In this example, the concept *is* the word, with its cultural >> > history, associations etc. > > Anthony replied: > >> Can you give an example of that in a traditional encyclopedia? > > The English Wikipedia contains individual articles about each of the > 144 "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" television episodes. Can you give an > example of that in a traditional encyclopedia?
That might be a relevant question if we were discussing whether or not has television episode guide entries. As it stands we're discussing whether or not it has dictionary entries. > As implicitly acknowledged in your question, Wikipedia isn't a > traditional encyclopedia. And that's my whole point. Wikipedia *does* contain lots of dictionary entires, even though there is a page saying that it shouldn't. >> And if the concept is the word, shouldn't the title of the article be >> [[the word "meh"]]? > > Why? Disambiguation. I guess [["meh"]] would be acceptable, though. It's not so important with interjections, but any word which is a noun would suffer from the problem. [[shithead]] should be about shitheads, not the word shithead, just like [[dog]] is about dogs, not the word dog. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
