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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures
From:       Delirium <delirium () hackish ! org>
Date:       2006-06-14 16:51:59
Message-ID: 44903EAF.9000608 () hackish ! org
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Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Steve Summit wrote:
>
>   
>> (The problem's just as bad over on Wiktionary, where there are
>> stubbornly, defiantly distinct pages for `color' and `colour'.
>> Huge, repetitive, internecine arguments regularly erupt, whenever
>> anyone has the temerity to suggest that the two entries be merged
>> somehow since they're "obviously" just two spelling variants
>> for "the same" word.)
>>
>>     
> It's not a problem.  The reasonable people understand that it needs to 
> be on two separate pages.
>   
Standard practice of dictionaries, though, is to collapse trivial 
variants into one entry.  Even the OED, quite possibly the most thorough 
English-language encyclopedia in existence, does this.  What's the point 
of duplicating information?

-Mark

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