Thesaurus talk:circumcised

I realise that 'genitally mutilated' is (as someone who removed it before said) "a can of worms" but the definition is in accordance with the United Nations' World Health Organisation definition. It is not for a dictionary to be politically correct, but to reflect the meaning of words as they are used: and the words are synonymous according to the largest health organisation in the world. 87.115.107.71 16:08, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Why is 'intact' removed? 82.35.65.23 11:34, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

In short: to avoid redundancy. It's sufficient to only list "uncircumcised" in the "antonyms" section, as the "WS" after it links to the page Wikisaurus:uncircumcised, which contains a list of other words meaning "uncircumcised" (including intact). -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 21:07, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Regarding genitally mutilated, this would likely be considered "sum of parts" (i.e. having a meaning that can be determined from the meanings of its component words) under Wiktionary's criteria for inclusion, and is thus unlikely to ever have its own entry here. There was a vote a while ago that determined that CFI applies to Wikisaurus pages as well as mainspace dictionary entries. We do have entries for female genital mutilation and male genital mutilation, though, so there might be a case to be made for having an entry for genitally mutilated. Feel free to bring the topic to the Beer parlour (our main community talk page) for discussion.

There's also the fact that genitally mutilated is too broad of a term for it to be a strict synonym of circumcised. There's castration and phallectomy. Some people also view voluntary male-to-female sexual reassignment surgery and genital piercings as forms of male genital mutilation.

I hope this helps clarify things. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 22:05, 19 May 2014 (UTC)