Talk:skimo

Ski mountaineering

The term "skimo" is a shortening of "ski mountaineering" [1]. It is, as best I can tell, more often used to describe competitive rather than recreational ski mountaineering. Here is another source that discusses the meaning of the term [2]. RobbieIanMorrison (talk) 01:02, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

 Done Equinox ◑ 22:35, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Proper attribution of work ?

I wanted to properly attribute the work done by RobbieIanMorrison (talk) on 01:02, 27 December 2018 (UTC) So I included a link to the user in the Reference section. Is this the proper way to do this on Wiktionary ? Jawitkien (talk) 22:54, 30 July 2022 (UTC)

Jawitkien: normally references should cover only "reliable secondary sources". I see from the page history that the remark about me being authoritative in some way has now been removed. That seems sensible and appropriate. RobbieIanMorrison (talk) 14:56, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

@Jawitkien, RobbieIanMorrison: the only reason to add such a reference would be to provide the attribution that the CC license requires if something copyrightable were copied from the Wikipedia article, and that is definitely not the way to do it. Instead, one would add a note to the talk page giving enough detail to show what was borrowed, and who contributed. For a Wikipedia article with a viewable edit history, that would only require a simple statement that some content was taken from the Wikipedia article, with a link to the article. From that, the attribution would be obtainable from the revision history. Simply stating the user account and timestamp leaves the reader unable to find the contribution unless they think to look through all the contributions for the user account on all wikis, and even then, that's an awful lot of unnecessary work.

In this case, however, it doesn't look like the edit in question was original and distinctive enough to be copyrightable- it's just a simple statement of independently verifiable fact. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to add a note here that some content came from the Wikipedia article, but it would be unnecessary.

Also, Wiktionary only uses references for etymologies and for cases where the language is of limited documentation (see WT:LDL), and a reference work is the only source. Otherwise, Wiktionary is a descriptive dictionary based on usage, so attestation is our source (see WT:CFI and WT:NOT). Chuck Entz (talk) 17:35, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

@Chuck Entz: Noted and thanks. RobbieIanMorrison (talk) 22:32, 19 August 2022 (UTC)