| Wiktionary:Requests for moves, mergers and splits Oct 29th 2011, 23:25 warwood: | ← Older revision | Revision as of 23:25, 29 October 2011 | | Line 1,206: | Line 1,206: | | | | | | | | Fictional-universe only term, should be [[Appendix:Moby-Dick/warwood]]. See also [[Talk:cryptex]]. [[User:Mglovesfun|Mglovesfun]] ([[User talk:Mglovesfun|talk]]) 09:31, 29 October 2011 (UTC) | | Fictional-universe only term, should be [[Appendix:Moby-Dick/warwood]]. See also [[Talk:cryptex]]. [[User:Mglovesfun|Mglovesfun]] ([[User talk:Mglovesfun|talk]]) 09:31, 29 October 2011 (UTC) | | | + | | | | + | == [[Template:aaq]] == | | | + | * This is badly named. I suggest, that we: | | | + | # Rename aaq from "Eastern Abnaki" to "Penobscot". <tt>"Penobscot language"</tt> gets 1150 Google Books hits, whereas <tt>"Eastern Abnaki language"</tt> gets only 7, the majority of which are printed editions of Wikipedia. <tt>Penobscot</tt> by itself gets one and a half million Books hits (and <tt>Penobscot + Abenaki</tt> gets 32500), whereas <tt>"Eastern Abnaki"</tt> gets only 340. "Penobscot" and "Abenaki" are the names by which aaq and abe are distinguished in older reference works, and the contributors of our first (and, until I began adding more, only) aaq word, [[outdusis]], called it Penobscot. | | | + | # Alternatively rename aaq to "Eastern Abenaki" (notice the added "e") and rename abe from "Abenaki" to "Western Abenaki". <tt>"Eastern Abenaki"</tt> gets 4840 Google Books hits, compared to the 340 for <tt>"Eastern Abnaki"</tt> (without "e"), and whereas <tt>"Eastern Abnaki language"</tt> is only used in 4 printed editions of Wikipedia, two copies of the same dictionary of acronyms, and one other book, 7 of the 8 hits for <tt>"Eastern Abenaki language"</tt> are independent, and none are Wikipedia. "Western Abenaki language" gets 307 Google Books hits, including Gordon Day's important dictionary; "Eastern Abenaki" and "Western Abenaki" are the names by which the lects are distinguished in modern reference works. | | | + | * Thoughts? [[User:-sche|- -sche]] [[User talk:-sche|(discuss)]] 23:25, 29 October 2011 (UTC) | | |
