| Wiktionary:Information desk Aug 31st 2012, 04:01 rejected entry (nagative): Um, no. (@BB12) | ← Older revision | Revision as of 04:01, 31 August 2012 | | Line 1,962: | Line 1,962: | | | :::Thus, it isn't even as if "nagative" occurs as the only non-standard spelling in otherwise perfectly-English works, where it would be more debatable whether it was an mistake or not : it occurs in the context of other misspellings, typos (i.e. [[multiple-word term]]s missing spaces) and ungrammatical phrases. (At one time, I added [[himand]] from such dubious Usenet posts. To be fair, it was deleted at RFD rather than RFV.) [[User:-sche|- -sche]] [[User talk:-sche|(discuss)]] 01:30, 31 August 2012 (UTC) | | :::Thus, it isn't even as if "nagative" occurs as the only non-standard spelling in otherwise perfectly-English works, where it would be more debatable whether it was an mistake or not : it occurs in the context of other misspellings, typos (i.e. [[multiple-word term]]s missing spaces) and ungrammatical phrases. (At one time, I added [[himand]] from such dubious Usenet posts. To be fair, it was deleted at RFD rather than RFV.) [[User:-sche|- -sche]] [[User talk:-sche|(discuss)]] 01:30, 31 August 2012 (UTC) | | | :::: Thank you for that. So as I understand it, then, as long as three citations can be found without other grammar and spelling errors, a word that seems like a typo is nevertheless valid for entry on Wiktionary. Obviously, I don't want "nagative" to be on Wiktionary, but it's good to know the processes that are used to include and exclude words. --[[User:BenjaminBarrett12|BB12]] ([[User talk:BenjaminBarrett12|talk]]) 02:53, 31 August 2012 (UTC) | | :::: Thank you for that. So as I understand it, then, as long as three citations can be found without other grammar and spelling errors, a word that seems like a typo is nevertheless valid for entry on Wiktionary. Obviously, I don't want "nagative" to be on Wiktionary, but it's good to know the processes that are used to include and exclude words. --[[User:BenjaminBarrett12|BB12]] ([[User talk:BenjaminBarrett12|talk]]) 02:53, 31 August 2012 (UTC) | | | + | :::::While that ''may'' be correct — that cites without other errors suffice — it certainly doesn't follow from what -sche just wrote, which is only that cites ''with'' other errors ''don't'' suffice.<span class="Unicode">​—[[User:Msh210|msh210]]℠</span> ([[user talk:Msh210|talk]]) 04:01, 31 August 2012 (UTC) | | | | | | | | == Are video games valid sources? == | | == Are video games valid sources? == | | |
