Talk:highlights

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"The highlights" as a thing, not just a plural[edit]

Why I'm adding translations to a plural:

I was looking for the highlights of a Spanish football match. I found nothing when searching for the teams names plus "highlights", so I came here looking for the Spanish translation of "highlights". This page just said "plural of highlight", and nothing on the page "highlight" was any use. I eventually found that the correct translation is "resumen", which literally translates to summary. It's a translation in the sense that it's the word Spanish speakers use for the thing English speakers call "the highlights".

So, where do I add this translation? "resumen" is not a translation of "highlight", so it can't go on that page.

I see two options:

  1. Simply add the translation (but maybe there's a policy against translations on plural pages?).
  2. Add a second meaning, and attach this translation to that.

The second options seems to make more sense. "highlights" is a special type of summary which includes the most entertaining or most important parts of something. It's different from a summary because if I summarise an article, I can't just skip the middle because it wasn't interesting, but the highlights of an event does exactly that. Gronky (talk) 10:43, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]