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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures
From:       "Wildrick Steele" <wildrick.steele () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-06-14 20:34:20
Message-ID: 6eaa4d100606141334o69026168rf7c7c60e842fdd02 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 14/06/06, Delirium <delirium@hackish.org> wrote:
>
> 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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It's simply not NPOV to list only one, or to list both under one title. The
OED, apart from being authoritative, is still British, while Wiktionary is
for all variants of English.

Cheers,
Wildrick
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Vildricianus
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