Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 16:45, 7 July 2009

I just did a bit of spring-cleaning on the Project Page. I made a User Template for the Project; I eliminated links to "New Articles" which were over 1 year old; I eliminated a reference to a category page which didn't exist (i.e. loanwords); and I eliminated a link to a page which was said to be FA-class content but which had subsequently ceased to be FA class (i.e. etymologies of Ohio counties). Calypygian (talk) 03:25, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages 0.7 articles have been selected for Etymology

Misplaced Pages 0.7 is a collection of English Misplaced Pages articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Misplaced Pages:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Misplaced Pages talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Misplaced Pages:Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Misplaced Pages 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:58, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Macedonia (terminology) FAR

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Suggested project

I'd like to propose working on some sort of standardized title for articles dealing with the etymology of a word or term. Currently, one will find scattered across Misplaced Pages several etymological articles with varying titles, making browsing somewhat confusing. Here are some examples:

• Origin of the name x, i.e. Origin of the name California
• Name of x, i.e. Name of Argentina
• x (word), i.e. Jazz (word)
• Etymology of x, i.e. Etymology of ham radio
• History of the word 'x', i.e. History of the word 'fuck'
• Etymology of the name of x, i.e. Etymology of the name of Julius Caesar
• ...and many others.

While I imagine some of these articles would be better off being merged with their subject, certain word histories that contain enough information to justify their own encyclopedia article should (in my opinion), have some sort of common titling protocol. Any thoughts on the matter? Oh, and if this is a topic better addressed somewhere else (or that has already been addressed on another page), please direct me there. Steamroller Assault (talk) 22:29, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

I favor Etymology of 'x', e.g. Etymology of 'Argentina'. It's simple, precise, unambiguous, and I think appropriate to most of these articles. Quantumelfmage (talk) 07:15, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Move Etymology to Wiktionary

It's always seemed odd to me that etymology sections occur in Misplaced Pages instead of in Wiktionary. Isn't the etymology more closely related to the word rather than the encyclopedic content? Books on etymology are always considered 'dictionaries' of etymology, so doesn't it make sense for this content to be treated under Wiktionary?

Does anyone know if there has been discussion of this? I haven't seen any, but I think it would improve overall Wikimedia organization. Quantumelfmage (talk) 06:55, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

I suppose you are right. Etymologies certainly belong in Wiktionary, and having them here too is a bit redundant. We'd need to place {{wiktionary}} templates in our articles much more consistently, though (and probably at the top of pages so that they can be found easily). There should also be a broader discussion, I think, than just on WP Etymology. This is not a very active project, I'm afraid. --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 09:36, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group

Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. — Delievered by §hepBot (Disable) on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 05:22, 28 February 2009 (UTC)