Talk:✈

October 2023

Well, sometimes the emoji is commonly taken literally. I.e. ✈ is used on Flightradar24 to denote planes, but something like 🚹 is not really ever used to denote a man standing, despite that being what the depiction is. So, I think IMO sometimes it is worth denoting this distinction for emoji which are commonly taken literally, so as to inform the reader that taking it literally is a common definition. Maybe 🔝 is a good example of this, as the depiction is not the word “top” per say but it is taken literally to mean this. 🚀 (“to skyrocket”) is an example of the opposite; while it literally is a rocket, it is not commonly used enough in this way for it to be noted as a definition. @Equinox LunaEatsTuna (talk) 07:24, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

@LunaEatsTuna: Yeah. Remebmer the entire occasional "we shouldn't include X because it's hieroglyphics!" is such and such a thing. Clearly we have reached a point where we put this stuff under "Translingual - Symbol" - or whatever. The point is that we are supposed to be defining a word, or giving a meaning that is associated with a sign. I've already made the point (and you comment on it above). But if you are going to be consistently doing "DEFINE X AS Y, BECAUSE X IS A PICTURE OF Y" then you should open a discussion, because we specifically don't do that on Wikt. In other words if a picture of a woman means "female toilet" then that is (somehow) textual but if it's just "PICTURE OF A WOMAN" then no, we are not a list of drawings Equinox ◑

Ah – I do see what you mean now! Thanks for clarifying; this makes sense. And yes, I do avoid creating entries for emoji that have no meaning beyond their depiction – and indeed most emoji articles were historically deleted for that reason. I am still new to editing this wiki and I really do want to avoid causing any issues or making contentious contributions. LunaEatsTuna (talk) 15:53, 11 October 2023 (UTC)