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Main list: Category:Move to Wiktionary

This is a list of requests where additional comments or discussion are necessary.

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Requests that have become moot

  • SWMBO submitted by Robert Merkel 01:36, 5 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • task --Robert Merkel 06:10, 8 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • Way beyond dicdef now. Must be made into proper disambig page, for specific technical terms. Mikkalai 06:17, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Reeves Gabrels - definition — J3ff 23:52, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • Surely a short bio is possible here. Any Bowie fans care to handle it?
    • Not a word, and not a dictionary definition. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
  • Controversy. Too general a term, really a definition. Alex756 19:15, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • Article has grown to discuss the concept not the word. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
  • Inpatient - just a definition -- Cyrius 20:24, Mar 20, 2004 (UTC)
  • Parricide -- Khym Chanur 05:29, Mar 15, 2004 (UTC)
  • Electric blue (NB - this is not a move request!) - apparently User: Johnkarp put a move to Wiktionary message on this in October 2004 but didn't list it here. It's now a disambiguation page, so I've removed the message Grutness|hello? 05:54, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Suffragan is DictDef, looks copied. Cmprince 06:35, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • Article became a redirect to bishop. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
  • Formicarium - Too technical, nothing links to it (except the rather contrived link i made just now) --foobaz·✐ 07:10, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
    • Article has grown to discuss the concept not the word. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
  • Chortle -- Khym Chanur 05:23, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)
  • Zamindar is two dictdefs. It hasn't been expanded sine the original post in April. —msh210 21:31, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • Article has grown to discuss the concept not the word. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
  • Protoplast is more or less a set of definitions right now that are specialized within the field of biology. Falerin 14:20, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    • Article has grown to discuss the concept not the word. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
  • Entry - No potential — simply defines "foyer" (which is only one definition of entry anyway). — Mateo SA | talk 22:55, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)
    • Article is now a {{wi}}. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
  • Body count - nothing much more can be written besides a definition. T.P.K. 04:22, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • I think the concept of 'body count' and its manipulation in movies deserves an article, so I made a stub. Kappa 05:12, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • Article has grown to discuss the concept not the word. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
  • IOU - No potential to be anything more than a definition of the term itself. Rob Price 05:27, Nov 5, 2004 (UTC)
    • Article has become a TLA disambiguation page. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
  • Sarcasm, it can't ever be more than a dictionary definition, correct?
    • Coz there's nothing more that can written about sarcasm. (Okay, sarcasm's hard to type. Dumb joke.) Tristanb 03:13, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Article has grown to discuss the concept not the word. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
  • Chapin, slang term, doubtful that if could even be made into a stub--nixie 05:07, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Article has become a name disambiguation page. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
  • Prone - fabiform | talk 23:36, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Flapping -- Rick Block 03:34, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Article has grown to discuss the concept not the word. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
  • Formication - [[User:Cohesion|cohesion ☎]] 09:12, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
    • Article has grown to discuss the concept not the word. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
  • Scene --Chessphoon 04:01, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
    • Way over wictionary now. Mikkalai 06:17, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Wapanese - This was lifted from UrbanDictionary, and is a dictionary definition. --TIB (talk) 03:06, Aug 29, 2004 (UTC)
  • 0wn - dicdef. --Slowking Man 21:59, Aug 13, 2004 (UTC)
    • Redirected to pwn. Guanaco 22:06, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Trasvasement (see Template:VfD-Trasvasement) -- Graham  :) | Talk 20:19, 6 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
  • Dysphemism - doesn't look like it will ever be more than a glorified dictionary entry Tompagenet 23:58, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Article has grown to discuss the concept not the word. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
  • Melée, unless anyone can add something significant about it. We'll just send the folks checking out meleé in Wikipedia to the Wiktionary wiktionary:Melée page because a few places do link it. Emperorbma
    • Or move it and other terms to hand to hand combat, and have a general (encyclopedic!) discussion. Martin 13:10, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • Would need to disambiguate the diamond and combat uses anyway, so the page appears destined to stay around.JamesDay 14:47, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
  • Conference
    • Article has become a disambiguation page. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
  • Brazier: Appears to bew a definition rather than an encyclopaedic entry. -- Darkhorse 22:03, 2003 Oct 21 (UTC)
    • Article has become a disambiguation page. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
  • Blogosphere - SimonP 02:41, Nov 20, 2003 (UTC)
    • Article has grown to discuss the concept not the word. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
  • Lor - Robert Merkel 12:27, 5 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article is a location stub. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
  • Kula -- It's not the whole page that needs moving, just the "yogi meaning". Mona-Lynn 17:54, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • I looked, but I couldn't find evidence that "kula" was actually an English word with the meaning given. There's evidence that there's a Hindi word, of which this is the romanization, but (a) Wiktionary wants words in their proper scripts not as romanizations, and (b) there's some evidence that the definition supplied is not that of the Hindi word. So I've simply added a Wiktionary link and removed the dictionary definition. Uncle G 00:13, 2005 Mar 15 (UTC)
  • Feint - Flockmeal 05:24, Aug 30, 2004 (UTC)
    • Article has grown to discuss the concept not the word. Uncle G 18:07, 2005 Mar 17 (UTC)
  • Interim dictionary def with examples of usagejimfbleak 06:47, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)
    • See Talk:Interim for a lengthy discussion.
    • Please have mercy! Yes, it is a "dictionary def with examples of usage", but w*h*a*t__i*s__t*h*e__p*r*o*b*l*e*m ??? I'm really worried. KF 23:54, 20 Aug 2003 (UTC)
      • See WP:WINAD. It should be moved to Wiktionary. Angela
      • I've had this discussion before (see Talk:Point of no return), and I'm a bit tired of it. With the help of WP:WINAD (and maybe stub) you can argue both for and against inclusion in Wikipedia. Interim is a perfectly legitimate page. --KF 12:08, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)
        • In Wiktionary. It's not an encyclopedia article, and never will be. It is a good dictionary definition, however. --Robert Merkel 23:00, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • Article was deleted. Uncle G 19:06, 2005 Mar 17 (UTC)
  • Allowance was nominated by J3ff. However, I think this article has the potential to be expanded into a full article. — Brim 08:21, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
    • Article was deleted. Uncle G 18:01, 2005 Mar 18 (UTC)
  • Take the piss out- dictdef. Should be moved and retitled take the piss (which exists as a redlink there) or perhaps take the piss out of. Mark1 05:03, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Evolutionism - predominantly etymological (some small parts to be merged with existing Creation vs. evolution debate article) CheeseDreams 23:05, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • Keep. This page is no more "predominantly etymological" than is the page capitalism. And the cut and "merge" that Mr. Dreams suggests above is as much a violation of Wikipedia NPOV policy as would be a cut and "merge" of the capitalism page to the PrivateOwnership vs. PublicOwnership debate page without allowing a capitalism page to trace the 1) history of "capitalism" theory and the 2) varieties of "capitalism" theories in use today. ---Rednblu | Talk 09:18, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • Move. This is a discussion about evolutionism not about the page Capitalism. Evolutionism is a POV title. The consensus on the evolutionism VFD was to split the page up in multiple manners (i.e. Wiktionary for the majority of the text (which is predominantly etymological), merge partly to Creation vs. Evolution debate (for the fact that Evolutionism as a term only exists in use by Creationists in a derogatory manner and does not exist in any other form), move some minor parts to an History of albiogenesis page, and have an Evolutionism disambiguation page predominantly redirecting to Creationism). CheeseDreams 17:26, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
      • The historical record of the VfD indicates otherwise. Furthermore, that historical record points to the frivolous nature of this attempt to work a VfD delete that was explicitly rejected by the VfD vote. This nomination for MoveToWiktionary is a good joke, 8( but it is a frivolous misuse of Wikipedia resources--though a good joke, yes! :)) ---Rednblu | Talk 18:09, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • Keep. It's disgusting that you've even tried posting this here. The article has nothing whatsoever to do with the word's etymology, and had nothing to do with it on 12 Nov 2004, either. —Simetrical (talk) 23:15, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • Support for the move has vanished. Uncle G 18:58, 2005 Mar 18 (UTC)
  • Revamp - Just a word. – flamurai (t) 01:17, Feb 12, 2005 (UTC)
  • Astral. Angela 20:46, Sep 21, 2003 (UTC)
  • Anadromous, Spasm. --Angela
    • Anadromous has been redirected.
    • Article has become a redirect to fish migration Uncle G 20:07, 2005 Mar 21 (UTC)
  • Persnickety - the very definition of a definition. Meelar (talk) 03:02, Mar 23, 2005 (UTC)
  • Ima This one should actually be moved to the Japanese Wiktionary. —Simetrical (talk) 23:15, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • The definition is in English, it should go to the English dictionary. Kappa 23:39, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • Has become an album page. Kappa 21:57, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • -onomy —Simetrical (talk) 23:15, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Paki - racial epithet definition. Please, I mean no offense! :-) Ganymead 04:51, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Hey —Simetrical (talk) 23:15, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Ham e-mail - dicdef stub. Also, this term is basically a negative. It means "any e-mail that is not spam" -- so there is not really much to say about "ham e-mail" per se. The term is a real term, though -- it is actually used among spam-filter programmers; it is not generally used among mail system administrators. --FOo 05:35, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
    • Article has become a redirect to E-mail spam where this definition already existed. Uncle G 00:44, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)
  • Desmit - A couple of Latvian definitions. - RedWordSmith 16:21, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)
    • Article has been deleted. Uncle G 00:48, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)
  • Anfractuosity - Dictdef. Katefan0 04:45, Dec 11, 2004 (UTC)
    • Article has been deleted. Uncle G 00:49, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)
  • Nidorous from the 1913 Webster's, no less. - RedWordSmith 06:43, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)
    • Article has been deleted. Uncle G 00:50, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)
  • Cronies - can't see how this can be expanded. It is a term in politics but that fits easier in Political corruption. Dbiv 03:15, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Munter -- Exabyte (talk)­ 22:50, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)
  • Zanbatou - Only linked by Rurouni Kenshin... -- Emperorbma 04:41, 25 Aug 2003 (UTC)
    • Against. It is a thing, hence with encyclopedic potential. Linkage doesn't matter. Mikkalai 04:22, 15 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]
    • Keep. This has since been linked from a number of other articles and has been expanded by myself and others. It's certainly encyclopedic now IMO, if a bit stubby because it's not well-known outside of Japan. DopefishJustin (・∀・) 02:44, May 26, 2004 (UTC)
    • Article has grown to discuss the concept not the word. Uncle G 19:39, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)
  • Filial piety fabiform | talk 14:04, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • There's a big paragraph about this in Confucianism, so I linked to that and took out the movetowiktionary Kappa 11:02, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
      • Shouldn't you just merge it with the Confucianism article? -- fiveless 07:39, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)
    • Article has grown to discuss the concept not the words. Whether or not it is merged is irrelevant here, and is being discussed on Talk:filial piety. Uncle G 20:44, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)
  • Idiot --Chessphoon 20:55, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
    • Keep. It is an OK stub. Paul3144
    • Keep. The bit about Athenian politics (could be expanded) makes it a non-dicdef. -- Kizor 17:12, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Move. It's barely a stub, and a redirect using interwiki links would be fine. Most dictionaries do have a little bit of the "history" of the word, but not enough to be encyclopaedic, just like in idiot. --TIB (talk) 03:54, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)
    • Move. The info about Athenian politics is Etymology of the word Idiot.
    • Move. It's basically just a definition and etymology. It should be turned into a redirect for mental retardation or something. —Simetrical (talk) 23:30, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
    • Wiktionary already has Wiktionary:idiot, so a move is moot. Uncle G 21:33, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)
  • Rebellion, in which a definition for "rebellion" is written, and then a list of famous rebellions and famous rebels is given. However, this list is by no means exhaustive, and I don't think anyone should try to make it that way. The number of big rebellions in history is so big that the list would end up being long and useless. It is better for this to be a Wiktionary definition instead of an incomplete list of worldwide rebellions. Gotalora 03:13, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Article has grown to discuss the concept not the words. Uncle G 00:04, 2005 Mar 30 (UTC)
  • Geekspeak -- This is not an encyclopedia article; it is the definition of a slang term. --FOo 16:29, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • The article OTOH will probably never be much longer than the phrase "on the other hand". The phrase is already mentioned in Internet_slang#O and List_of_acronyms_and_initialisms:_O#OT. Should it be moved to the dictionary or deleted? 08:39, 2005 Apr 3 JeffAMcGee (according to history Uncle G 15:47, 2005 Apr 3 (UTC))
    • Wiktionary already has Wiktionary:OTOH, so a move is moot. Indeed, it already had it at the time that this listing was made. Please heed the advice on this page to search Wiktionary before making a listing. Uncle G 15:47, 2005 Apr 3 (UTC)
  • Cold war submitted by --Wolf530 06:35, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Wiktionary may like an article on "cold war". Note however that a current proposal within Wikipedia is to redirect to Cold War and explain the general idea of a cold war as a prelude to describing the Cold War. The short definition can still be found in page history. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 09:44, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
    • Article has become a redirect to Cold War. Uncle G 06:57, 2005 Apr 4 (UTC)
  • Colourless — dicdef. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 14:04, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • Article has become a redirect to color. Uncle G 17:08, 2005 Apr 5 (UTC)
  • Higashi, Minami, Kita, Nishi (Direction): definitions of Japanese direction words. RSpeer 23:45, Dec 27, 2004 (UTC)
    • Wiktionary already has the real words (Wiktionary:東, Wiktionary:西, and the like). All of these except nishi (Direction) are name disambiguations. Uncle G 18:58, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)
    • I'm moving this on the grounds that no-one has presented any counterarguments in a week, and these are still name disambiguations. Uncle G 18:43, 2005 Apr 5 (UTC)
  • Los_angelization - despite the addition of some related topics, it's just a definition.Willmcw 20:25, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Dunelm abbreviation. Can't see this becoming more than a definition. -- Dcfleck 20:55, 2005 Apr 3 (UTC)
    • Wiktionary has Wiktionary:Dunelm, Wiktionary:Dunelmensis, Wiktionary:Durham, and even Wiktionary:Duresm. We could transwikify for the usage note, but I don't think that it's actually accurate, or at least complete. "Dunelm" seems to be used for "Dunelmensis" in many contexts, not solely the one mentioned. It's also the name of quite a lot of things. I sense a disambiguation article here. Uncle G 14:19, 2005 Apr 4 (UTC)
    • This is a disambiguation article, and no-one has presented any counterarguments in a fortnight. Uncle G 12:17, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC)
  • Yiff - slang term. no encyclopedic content.
    • Wrong. An explanation of the background and etymology of the word *is* encyclopaedic. -- Schnee 00:31, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
    • Agree with Schneelocke. --Fibonacci 01:07, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • Explanations of the etymology of the word, its changes in meaning, and its usage are exactly what the dictionary is for. Wiktionary does etymologies, meanings, and usages, and does them well. The dictionary certainly does them better than the encyclopaedia does. This is a case in point. Wiktionary has an etymology for Wiktionary:yiff that actually cites sources. Wiktionary also deals with Wiktionary:YIFF, referencing sources, has all of the parts of speech for Wiktionary:yiff, and has individual articles for the inflected words (Wiktionary:yiffs, Wiktionary:yiffing, Wiktionary:yiffed, and so forth) complete with citations too. Whether this article about a word should now remain in the encyclopaedia is not a matter for this page, however. Uncle G 12:52, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC)
  • Heliotrope - dicdef. --ThomasWinwood 11:06, Apr 17, 2005 (UTC)
    • It's a color article, and a botany article. Kappa 12:06, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • Could also be a song article, in theory... there's a new WikiProject on colour who might well be able to do something with it. Grutness|hello? 07:01, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • Wiktionary already had Wiktionary:heliotrope. Please search Wiktionary before tagging an article, as instructed above. Uncle G 13:03, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC)
  • Transwiki:wiktionary - dicdef for the police slang testa-lying. not sure why they decided to put it where they did Salasks 17:14, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)
    • Moved content to testa-lying. -- Netoholic @ 20:13, 2004 Oct 20 (UTC)
    • Article has grown to discuss the concept not the word. Uncle G 13:16, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC)
  • Motard - french dictdef., though there is the possibility the word is being used in some English-speaking subcultures. --Dcfleck 13:27, 2005 Apr 24 (UTC)
  • Lectionary - definition. Grutness|hello? 07:02, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Postman -- Just a definition, and it's likely any expansion would be better listed in another article, such as Mail. -- Kaszeta 15:00, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • A number of scientific neologisms that are not in broad use (even) within the scientific community Functomics, Textome, Phenome, Ecome, Functome, Expressome, Textomics--nixie 02:15, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Necrocracy Dictdef, and possible neologism to boot.. Katefan0 18:46, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)
    • Article has been deleted. Uncle G 17:29, 2005 May 13 (UTC)
  • Eve (time) --Catherine | talk 06:17, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
    • Article has been deleted. Uncle G 17:29, 2005 May 13 (UTC)
  • Mole (architecture) -- J3ff 17:58, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
    • I would say this one is more of a stub. Someone who knew about this could write an informative article, what they are, how they developed, examples, maybe a photo? It's pretty useless as it is, but maybe it should be a stub? I'll try and improve it when I have time. akaDruid 10:08, 4 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • Article has been transferred and deleted. Uncle G 17:29, 2005 May 13 (UTC)
  • Start-up - Reads like a dictionary entry bob rulz 02:23, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)
    • To me it looks like a short article with potential for expansion. Kappa 10:48, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • Whereas to me it looks like a type 2 disambiguation. Uncle G 20:28, 2005 Mar 21 (UTC)
    • Article has been a disambiguation for almost 2 months, without so much as a murmur. Uncle G 17:52, 2005 May 13 (UTC)
  • Neophyte - [[User:Shred|Shred -§-]] 01:18, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Shitty — slang/dicdef. Sasquatch′↔Talk↔Contributions 05:53, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
    • Article has been deleted. Uncle G 13:46, 2005 Jun 21 (UTC)
  • Hso-Gin -- Slang entry or something in chinese? Sasquatch′↔Talk↔Contributions 18:54, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
    • Article has been deleted. Uncle G 13:46, 2005 Jun 21 (UTC)
  • Mincer -- Slang entry - Wiktionary at best, possibly candidate for deletion. Gblaz 20:45, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • Article has been deleted. Uncle G 13:46, 2005 Jun 21 (UTC)
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