Talk:Dido
Latest comment: 6 years ago by New WT User Girl in topic RFC discussion: February 2013–August 2017
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As I cleaned up a separate problem, I noticed the attention tag: can this be templatised? - -sche (discuss) 22:16, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
Done. I notice that the template differs in showing plural forms, but there are other proper nouns using the same template, and also having plural forms. Still, I haven't done too many of these in Latin, so it wouldn't hurt for a more experienced Latin editor to check it. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:01, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
- I did a search of the whole PHI Latin corpus and it doesn't bring up any uses of Dido in the plural in any case (I can't think why she'd appear in the plural, either). My assumption would be that someone just used the regular 3rd declension table because they didn't know how to use a declension table for proper noun (I'm not deprecating them at all, if that's the case - I freak out every time I encounter a template andd it is certainly what I would do) 01:04, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
- That's actually something that's been bothering me for a while, but unfortunately many Latin names do pluralise. I'm not surprised this one doesn't, mainly because it's not Roman. I don't really think it's a big problem, in large part because it would be hell to change now that it's common practice to give plurals for basically everything that isn't a geographical feature. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 01:19, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
- We could always add a switch to the template to suppress plural forms, couldn't we? - -sche (discuss) 04:29, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, but SB would also need to recode his bot, and he doesn't seem to care about Latin much right now. Oh, and somebody (not me, because I can't say I really want to) would theoretically need to go through and check the attestability of plural forms for tons of proper nouns, which is tedious. Just doing it to one entry doesn't solve anything. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 04:33, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
- We could always add a switch to the template to suppress plural forms, couldn't we? - -sche (discuss) 04:29, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
- That's actually something that's been bothering me for a while, but unfortunately many Latin names do pluralise. I'm not surprised this one doesn't, mainly because it's not Roman. I don't really think it's a big problem, in large part because it would be hell to change now that it's common practice to give plurals for basically everything that isn't a geographical feature. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 01:19, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
- I did a search of the whole PHI Latin corpus and it doesn't bring up any uses of Dido in the plural in any case (I can't think why she'd appear in the plural, either). My assumption would be that someone just used the regular 3rd declension table because they didn't know how to use a declension table for proper noun (I'm not deprecating them at all, if that's the case - I freak out every time I encounter a template andd it is certainly what I would do) 01:04, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
- Looks good now --New WT User Girl (talk) 10:19, 27 August 2017 (UTC)