Wikipedia:Things to be moved to Wiktionary

Wikipedia official policy: Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary

Note: please do not add any new requests to this page. If you would like to report a dictionary definition, simply tag the article with {{Move to Wiktionary}}. See marking dictionary articles below for how to correctly tag an article.

Category:Move to Wiktionary contains a list of dictionary articles that are candidates for moving to the transwiki namespace of Wiktionary via the transwiki process. This is a maintenance page that contains other listings. We would like help resolving the old entries below.

When you move an article, make sure that you do not break any links. Consider copying rather than moving to avoid these complications. Put links from the Wikipedia article to the Wiktionary article and back.

Note: see /Archive 1 for old moot entries from before June 22, 2005.

Actively avoiding dictionary articles

You can help prevent the creation of dictionary articles (and the resulting wasted effort) by:

• searching Wiktionary for existing dictionary articles before creating new articles on Wikipedia
• using interwiki links to link from Wikipedia articles to Wiktionary articles if you want to link to articles about words, or to Wiktionary categories if you want to link to lists of definitions of words
• ensuring that any hyperlinks that you create in articles follow the naming conventions in what they point to, in particular with regard to linking to singulars instead of plurals, linking to nouns instead of adjectives, and linking to the gerunds of verbs.

Marking dictionary articles

If you find a dictionary article please search Wiktionary to see whether a dictionary entry already exists in Wiktionary. If it does, please consider turning the Wikipedia article into a soft redirect, or turning the Wikipedia article into an adjective→noun or verb→gerund redirect.

If you find a dictionary article which belongs in Wiktionary, transwiki it! If you can't perform the transwikification yourself, it is suggested that you add the {{move to Wiktionary}} tag to the article.

This marks the pages so that future viewers will see that it needs to be moved, and adds the article to Category:Move to Wiktionary.

Old requests

Main list: Category:Move to Wiktionary

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

Please do not add any more requests. Follow the instructions above to mark a dictionary definition.

• Icosasphere dictdef. Sasquatch′↔Talk↔Contributions 05:58, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)
• QA/QC Dicdef. I have no idea what would go in an actual article about it, though that doesn't mean one can't be written. The Literate Engineer 04:57, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Italian Brazilian. dictdef. Grutness...wha? 03:23, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
  • This isn't an idiom. This is just an ordinary combination of Italian and Brazilian. Wiktionary only takes such things if they are idiomatic. Uncle G 17:47, 2005 May 13 (UTC)
• Ghosting (prison) short dicdef, should be moved to Wiktionary, maybe encyclopedic if expanded.--Dmcdevit 21:45, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • The article is now ghost detainee and seems to be expanding to discuss the concept, not the word. Uncle G 00:20, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)
• Archive - largely definition. 81.155.168.239 20:30, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Strikes me as encyclopedic. --Dmcdevit 03:33, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Exxy - slang definition. Thue | talk 16:20, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Expanded to give better known meaning of term (and moved to more normal spelling (exy). Grutness|^hello?
• List_of_street_names_of_drugs - nothing more than a list of slang names. Cacycle 21:05, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Missense mutation - information on this page is largely redundant with that in point mutation and mutation articles; the page could be expanded to include mechanisms of creating missense mutations and the cellular mechansisms that respond to this type of mutation but not others . Courtland {2005-01-27 USA ~9:30 PM EST}
  • Not a dicdef. --Dmcdevit 03:33, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Phot - not much left to be expanded?
  • Not a dicdef. --Dmcdevit 03:33, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • Why not? It's just a definition.--Dfeuer 02:37, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
• Signal_reference_subsystem -- J3ff 23:30, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Not a dicdef. --Dmcdevit 03:33, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Non-conventional literature -- J3ff 18:27, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Not a dicdef. --Dmcdevit 03:33, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Snail mail - it's a dictionary definition of a geek slang term. the main article on the postal system exists at Mail. An article on the term "snail mail" belongs in Wiktionary -- Tarquin 16:25, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
  • Seems adequately encyclopedic --Dmcdevit 03:33, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Limeade -- recipe. SWAdair | Talk 04:20, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
  • Reasonable stub. Keep. Guanaco 22:05, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• Decimate -- Khym Chanur 04:55, Mar 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • keep, there are interesting things to be said about how the Roman armies decimated their own soldiers after losing a battle, pour encourager les autres Kappa 05:17, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • or redirect to decimation Kappa 05:21, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Not a dicdef. --Dmcdevit 03:33, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Cruft -- Khym Chanur 05:58, Mar 11, 2004 (UTC)
  • Not a dicdef. --Dmcdevit 03:33, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Thou: consider partial merge with wiktionary:Thou Emperorbma 09:16 3 Jul 2003 (UTC)
  • Not quite shore what to move. - fonzy
    • The etymology and a little bit of the usage section seem well oriented to being incorporated. The wiktionary thou is very sparse as it stands. Emperorbma 00:06 8 Jul 2003 (UTC)
      • Appears sufficiently developed. --Dmcdevit 03:33, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Nearly all the words linked from List of German expressions in English (anything that doesn't have more than a short definitional page). Note that the "see also" pages on French and Spanish words by and large are okay and don't need to be moved. (This was discussed on VfD and the consensus was to move to Wiktionary). --Delirium 06:35 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)
• Secondary entry at concrete - SimonP 17:22, Aug 23, 2003 (UTC)
  • What's wrong with concrete staying? Seems to be more than a definition. Keep. Angela
  • You're referring to the "Something is considered concrete if it is ..." bit? I agree - that bit is more suitable for Wikipedia. Martin 10:19, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
  • Not a dicdef. --Dmcdevit 03:33, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Requests that have become moot

• 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)
• Periphrasis, Aquatic, Ardhamagadhi, Angela 00:23, 15 Aug 2003 (UTC)
  • I just did a stub for Aquatic that links to new stubs on aquatic animal, aquatic plant and water sports, AKA aquatics. Paige 14:01, 9 Sep 2003 (EDT)
  • periphrasis has grown to discuss the concept, not the word; aquatic has become a discussion of aquatics; and Ardhamagadhi has become a redirect to Prakrit. Uncle G 13:58, 2005 Jun 21 (UTC)

All of the following are moot as they have actually been transwikied since their listing. --Dmcdevit 03:18, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Credit default option. Angela 18:27, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Strongly recommend that this stays in Wikipedia. The intricises of explaining and pricing these sorts of financial instrument are much better suited to an article rather than dictionary definition. Pete 19:01, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • Ok, I shall move it to Pages needing attention then. Angela
• Fashion police --Robert Merkel 22:59, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
• moiety, but don't use the definition there. Moiety is a standard English word meaning essentially "part", and its usage in Chemistry just follows standard usage, not any sort of specific jargon. --Delirium 00:01 22 Jul 2003 (UTC)
• JHOVE -- J3ff 07:58, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Faerie and Fae -- Khym Chanur 10:28, Mar 22, 2004 (UTC)
  • copy, do not move Faerie. Rhymeless 21:33, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)
• Majority owner -- J3ff 17:44, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Di- —Simetrical (talk) 23:15, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Duo Should be made to a redirect to the PowerBook Duo page when it's freed up. —Simetrical (talk) 23:15, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Demiurgus. Joe D (t) 18:32, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
• Calum - name. -- Ganymead 03:38, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
• Agnomen, one sentence --nixie 12:28, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Ulotrichi. Physchim62 15:07, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Diatribe — dicdef. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 11:47, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Pull and Amenity — both dicdefs. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 14:22, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)