Wiktionary talk:Requests for cleanup

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Documentation[edit]

Lists

Categories:

Templates:

Documentation of the cleanup process:

This project page is for requests for cleanup, pages that are badly formatted, badly written or ambiguous. If the existence of the entry is in question, it should be at Wiktionary:Requests for verification. If the dictionary worthiness is in question, it should be listed at Wiktionary:Requests for deletion.

To create a request for cleanup, add the template {{rfc}} or {{rfc-sense}} into the entry requiring an cleanup, and then add an item to this page by clicking "+" in the box that the {{rfc}} template has created on the page in question.

When a request is completed, the completed item can be closed by striking out the heading of the item, often with a word in bold such as done, foxed or striking.

Archiving: Since the end of 2009, cleanup debates are archived to the entry's talk page. However cleanup debates are often very short, in this case it's ok to remove the debate without archiving it; it is the archiver's job to decide if there is enough "usable content" to merit an archive.

Discussion[edit]

Various[edit]

Latest comment: 18 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I've completely reformatted the top-of-the-page instructions, hopefully improving their readability a bit without changing their essential meaning. - dcljr 10:52, 20 January 2006 (UTC)Reply

Keeping the Cleanup page clean[edit]

Latest comment: 18 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Is there any protocol for clearing out subheadings on this page for entries that have already been dealt with, like WT:RFC#sjit? I was wading through some of these out of curiosity's sake and found that some terms have since been deleted, and others now look just fine. Curious, Eiríkr Útlendi | Tala við mig 21:03, 19 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

AFAIK, this page has never been archived before. This then ends up somewhere on my todo list. — Vildricianus 14:41, 21 April 2006 (UTC)Reply

First attempt at archiving[edit]

Latest comment: 16 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

I've made an attempt at archiving. All pre-December 2006 entries that were strikethrough'd, or had been adequately cleaned up, which weren't controversial, have been move to Wiktionary:Requests for cleanup/archive. I may not have done the archving as well as with other pages, but it's a try anyway. Maybe we should write a page Wiktionary:Archiving. --Keene 01:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Also, I figured that a year since being posted is a reasonable time to move section to the archives. --Keene 01:07, 31 December 2007 (UTC)Reply
Please don't tell me that all the archived sub-sections should be moved to the article talk page. That would be a nasty task --Keene 01:08, 31 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

For cleanup, we don't generally do that, but for RfV, we do. --EncycloPetey 01:14, 31 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

Semitic entries[edit]

Latest comment: 16 years ago4 comments3 people in discussion

Arabic, Hebrew ...etc. are written in abjad systems. That is, dropping vowels (short vowels in the case of Ar and He). While there are ways to write short vowels in both Ar and He, for most purposes they are done without. Therefore, Arabic and Hebrew users are not likely to search for a word using its full-form (with diacritics that show the vowels). This creates a problem because, for example, a word like ktb in Arabic can be read: katab-kutub-kutib-kitb. With each having a different meaning.

So when searching for ktb in the dictionary it should return all these different words. Up to here all is fine, because the page for arabic ktb lists all these words. But a problem arises when some page in wiktionary links to a vocalized word that already exists in unvocalized form but not in vocalized, which results in a lot of red links. I tried to create two versions for each word (the vocalized and the unvocalized) but users with less knowledge in semitic languages keep tagging them with {{rfc}}. I have also noticed that other entries have suffered the same treatment. Any suggestion on how to solve this issue?.Hakeem.gadi 09:09, 30 April 2008 (UTC)Reply

Firstly, could you provide some links to entries you've created that have been tagged with {{rfc}}? If we could see them, we might be able to tell you why — and you might find that the users tagging them don't in fact have "less knowledge in semitic languages".
Secondly, what editors have been doing for Hebrew is so-called pipe-linking, where we link to one form and display another. In English, we use it for capitalization variants; for example, if we wish to link to when in a context where we need to capitalize it, we write [[when|When]] in the wiki markup, which then links to when but displays “When”. So in Hebrew, we've been applying the same principle for vocalized variants; for example, if we wish to linkify the word דִּיבֵּר, most of us write [[דיבר|דִּיבֵּר]] in the wiki markup, though one editor prefers to write [[דיבר|דִּבֵּר]] for grammar reasons. Either way, the result is a link to דיבר. (Note: the Unicode pipe character | is neither right-to-left nor left-to-right, so no matter what script the forms are in, the first form in the wiki-code becomes the link target, and the second becomes the link text. In Hebrew and Arabic, that means right=target and left=text.) It's not a perfect solution, but there doesn't seem to be a better one.
—RuakhTALK 12:07, 30 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for the reply. First, I would like to clarify that I did not intend to sound demeaning by saying "less knowledge in semitic languages". So I aplologize if this has offended anyone. The entries I created are عَبْد and عبد the first one (a vocalized version) got tagged. Thanks.--Hakeem.gadi 05:48, 1 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
Okay, the reason for the tag was formatting. There are two ways to format a page such as عَبْد: with a full complement of headers and definitions (that is, a complete page), or as a redirect (#REDIRECT عبد). I prefer the redirect and have fixed عَبْد to redirect to عبد. —Stephen 08:09, 1 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

archive[edit]

Latest comment: 15 years ago3 comments3 people in discussion

Why are there no archive for this page? Maro 18:47, 10 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Everything is archived to the talk page of the entry in question. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 18:48, 10 May 2008 (UTC)Reply
I beseech you, archive this page, I am opening it for 1 and a half minutes! Bogorm 15:01, 8 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

rfc - the full list[edit]

Latest comment: 13 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

Hopefully, here is the full list of entries using {{rfc}}, {{rfc-sense}} or {{rfc-case}}. Unfortunately Microsoft Excel which I used didn't recognize some of these characters, so they've come out as #NAME? (hence useless) but the number of entries is however accurate. Seems that at least half of them aren't listed at all. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:29, 3 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Some of these already have {{rfdef}} or {{defn}} on them. When this is the case, and there isn't another problem, can we remove {{rfc}}? I say yes. rfdef and defn are more specific than rfc. Mglovesfun (talk) 18:57, 3 February 2011 (UTC)Reply
The list
  1. ⺗
  2. -able
  3. -eous
  4. -form
  5. -gram
  6. -icity
  7. -ism
  8. -istic
  9. -ity
  10. -ium
  11. -ville
  12. 0800 number
  13. aandeg
  14. abduction
  15. ABEND
  16. abgefahren
  17. ability-to-pay
  18. abitandoci
  19. aboard
  20. abominate
  21. Aboriginal American
  22. absorbent
  23. accelerator
  24. accidental
  25. account
  26. aciculite
  27. action man
  28. active dry yeast
  29. additive
  30. admin
  31. æþryttan
  32. Afbachir
  33. ageist
  34. agente provocatrice
  35. agentic
  36. aibí
  37. Aila
  38. ailurophile
  39. ain't
  40. air mass classification
  41. Aki
  42. al
  43. allegro non troppo
  44. allogeneic
  45. allomorph
  46. alone in a crowd
  47. alpha
  48. aḻpiri
  49. alternate generation
  50. am
  51. Amazon
  52. amend
  53. amidst
  54. amphitheatrical
  55. amuser
  56. an offer one can't refuse
  57. angels dancing on the head of a pin
  58. Angromainyus
  59. announce
  60. anställd
  61. anti-feature
  62. anti-story
  63. antic
  64. antlia
  65. any
  66. ao
  67. Appendix talk:Persian given names
  68. Appendix talk:Portuguese given names
  69. Appendix:Arabic influence on Spanish
  70. Appendix:Dialect-dependent homophones
  71. Appendix:English collective nouns
  72. Appendix:English terms of Persian origin
  73. Appendix:Glossary of bagpipe terms
  74. Appendix:Glossary of chess
  75. Appendix:Hyper Text Markup Language
  76. Appendix:ISO 639-2 language codes
  77. Appendix:Palindromic words
  78. Appendix:Place names in China
  79. Appendix:Programming language terms
  80. Appendix:Slovak declension pattern dub
  81. Appendix:Slovak declension pattern ulica
  82. Appendix:Swadesh lists for interlingua
  83. Appendix:Year pronunciation
  84. apple juice
  85. apt
  86. arctic front
  87. Arianism
  88. around
  89. Atena
  90. attorney-in-fact
  91. auratic
  92. auslese
  93. authorization
  94. autism spectrum disorder
  95. Averroist
  96. Baal-gad
  97. backdraft
  98. baitola
  99. Báleygr
  100. ball
  101. ballpark figure
  102. Barack
  103. bare one's breast
  104. bargain
  105. bato
  106. be born yesterday
  107. beacon interval
  108. beechen
  109. behold
  110. belasý
  111. beslah
  112. black hat
  113. blackhole
  114. bleed-sheet
  115. blooter
  116. blue
  117. bokep
  118. bollocks
  119. bon sao
  120. bonzer
  121. boo
  122. boof
  123. bottom
  124. bourguignonne
  125. brameline
  126. brass monkey
  127. breakthrough pain
  128. brogueing
  129. bullabessa
  130. bum roll
  131. bums in seats
  132. bur block
  133. burden
  134. burn
  135. burn in hell
  136. bus
  137. bust a move
  138. buttery bar
  139. buttload
  140. button punch
  141. Cablegate
  142. cacat
  143. cacodaemoniacal
  144. cacography
  145. cadwch
  146. cake-eater
  147. California spangled cats
  148. call
  149. cannelure
  150. cannon ball
  151. care
  152. carrot cruncher
  153. Category talk:Ordinal numbers by language
  154. Category:100 English basic words
  155. Category:Czech plurals
  156. Category:Design
  157. Category:Drugs
  158. Category:Dutch compound words
  159. Category:Dutch nouns with incomplete gender
  160. Category:English abstract nouns
  161. Category:French idioms
  162. Category:Geographic abbreviations
  163. Category:German words spelled with nonstandard characters
  164. Category:ja:Chemical elements
  165. Category:Place names
  166. Category:United States of America
  167. Category:US State Capitals
  168. Category:Wiktionary policies
  169. cathode
  170. CAVOK
  171. Cebu
  172. Chece
  173. cher
  174. Chief of Party
  175. chigiriki
  176. chimney-duty
  177. circummeridian
  178. Cirih
  179. Citations:business girl
  180. Citations:cuckold
  181. Citations:open sunshine
  182. Citations:rainmaker
  183. clause
  184. cleared hot
  185. climacteric
  186. club drug
  187. cluestick
  188. cockatrice
  189. college
  190. color
  191. colter
  192. commission de bene esse
  193. compacity
  194. con
  195. concrete
  196. cook
  197. cooperation
  198. Copernican system
  199. Cordyceps
  200. could one be any more
  201. crankcase emission control system
  202. crap
  203. Creole
  204. crowd
  205. curly bracket
  206. cut
  207. cut out
  208. cutchery
  209. cyflogai
  210. damn
  211. dang
  212. daylight savings time
  213. Dc
  214. deel uitmaken van
  215. demonocracy
  216. Deut.
  217. dhimmi
  218. di-pimethane rearrangement
  219. didapper
  220. diegesis
  221. DILLIGAFF
  222. diptych
  223. discriminative stimulus
  224. diuresis
  225. do
  226. dolemite
  227. donga
  228. dote
  229. draft
  230. drain the swamp when up to one's neck in alligators
  231. draught
  232. Dravidian
  233. drive-by media
  234. Drukpa
  235. dub
  236. duck
  237. DVD
  238. dyad
  239. early grave
  240. eat one's young
  241. echarse al plato
  242. educational technology
  243. eeny
  244. egg timer
  245. electric toothbrush
  246. electricity
  247. elvish
  248. engsel
  249. Ephes.
  250. epicerastic
  251. Eren
  252. erupt
  253. étisie
  254. EVP
  255. exempt
  256. ext
  257. extravolution
  258. F2
  259. facsimile
  260. facticity
  261. fade
  262. filasse
  263. firmenning
  264. fool to oneself
  265. for the love of
  266. fosfor
  267. fossility
  268. framan af
  269. FRB
  270. friend with benefits
  271. Frisian
  272. frosting
  273. frottage
  274. frugal
  275. frugging
  276. fujara
  277. fully loaded
  278. fundoplasty
  279. Gan
  280. garifuna
  281. gehenna
  282. generatrix
  283. gentoo
  284. geography fair
  285. Georgie Porgie
  286. Gestapo
  287. gestor
  288. get
  289. ghost
  290. Giant
  291. gismu
  292. git
  293. give out
  294. glamourous
  295. gma
  296. goddessship
  297. golliwog
  298. goody two shoes
  299. Gorki
  300. got it going on
  301. Gråen
  302. Grand Slam
  303. gravitational convection
  304. grunnsævi
  305. hamster
  306. haruspication
  307. head
  308. headslapper
  309. hear both sides
  310. heta
  311. hey rube
  312. Hinata
  313. hit the ball twice
  314. ho2
  315. Hoanguo
  316. Hoff
  317. holla back
  318. honte
  319. hors delais
  320. host
  321. Hristos se rodi
  322. hruška
  323. Huang Ho
  324. hurt locker
  325. Hx
  326. hypothec
  327. idea virus
  328. idée mère
  329. IM
  330. impulsive speech
  331. in hand
  332. Index:Chinese DAYI
  333. Index:Etruscan
  334. Inspiration
  335. intentionality
  336. isomère
  337. iwure
  338. jack
  339. Jack Mormon
  340. jamjar
  341. Janjaweed
  342. Japanification
  343. jener
  344. jerkwater town
  345. job aid
  346. joukkuevoimistelu
  347. jumping Jesus
  348. kaflooey
  349. kakie
  350. kamboji
  351. Kambuja
  352. kantaap
  353. Kardex
  354. kick up
  355. knacker
  356. koncern
  357. koorknaap
  358. kurang
  359. kyodai
  360. l'esprit de l'escalier
  361. lampadomancy
  362. last legs
  363. lazy
  364. left arm orthodox
  365. left arm unorthodox
  366. leg glance
  367. leg side
  368. lepnin
  369. lette
  370. Lhermitte sign
  371. liberal profession
  372. life's not all skittles and beer
  373. liking
  374. Limburg
  375. line and length
  376. lippen
  377. locked rotor amp
  378. Lorentz group
  379. loyalty
  380. LTM
  381. lucis
  382. lungeing
  383. macro
  384. macroenvironment
  385. mad cow
  386. made
  387. mag wheel
  388. maker's name
  389. Malina
  390. mantella
  391. maqaf
  392. market foreclosure
  393. masked
  394. massively parallel
  395. mathesis
  396. mathetics
  397. Mayate
  398. Mayberry Machiavelli
  399. medical tourism
  400. medium pace
  401. medullas
  402. mega-
  403. Megiddo
  404. merge
  405. metaevolution
  406. metaphorical extension
  407. metencephalon
  408. mfG
  409. micronalia
  410. mirliton
  411. misset
  412. module
  413. moist
  414. Moor
  415. moose
  416. more
  417. mpene
  418. multilateralist
  419. munition
  420. mv
  421. my condolences
  422. mysteriarch
  423. naditi
  424. nakupenda
  425. negro
  426. neo-pantheist
  427. như thiết như tha, như trác như ma
  428. Nicolaitan
  429. no slouch
  430. noble eightfold path
  431. non-word
  432. normalization
  433. nostri
  434. nu metal
  435. Nunatukavut
  436. occidental
  437. off-handed
  438. off drive
  439. off spin
  440. offensive line of scrimmage
  441. oibara
  442. omavaraisuus
  443. OMGWTFBBQ
  444. on drive
  445. on one's feet
  446. oodf
  447. op kantoor
  448. OR
  449. orange
  450. oriental
  451. Orunmila
  452. Oshiro
  453. osmium tetroxide
  454. osterducken
  455. out-of-band
  456. outside
  457. over de kling jagen
  458. p.s.
  459. P.S.
  460. paganry
  461. Paleocene
  462. Pama-Nyungan
  463. paradigm
  464. park
  465. parson
  466. pass by
  467. passion pop
  468. perichoresis
  469. Peripatetic
  470. pET plasmid
  471. Phalaenopsis amabilis
  472. phlogiston theory
  473. phys-
  474. picket pool
  475. picture framing
  476. pinard
  477. pinyin
  478. pirie
  479. pole
  480. Pollyanish
  481. possibly
  482. post scriptum
  483. postdigital
  484. postscript
  485. postscriptum
  486. predictive coding
  487. přívlastek
  488. proceed
  489. produce
  490. program
  491. PS
  492. pseudomacedonism
  493. Ptah
  494. punch
  495. Purana
  496. putain de merde
  497. PVP
  498. pyramidic
  499. qex
  500. QID
  501. qua
  502. quasi-
  503. quejar
  504. quid pro quo
  505. quotient
  506. rad
  507. reason
  508. rebolusyon
  509. red book
  510. reed instrument
  511. reëxamine
  512. reganal
  513. regida
  514. rein
  515. represent
  516. rescue
  517. respire
  518. reverse the charge
  519. rhubarb
  520. Rhymes:English:-ɪljən
  521. Richelieu
  522. risk appetite
  523. risk tolerance
  524. RNTM
  525. ronko
  526. rooinek
  527. Rosselló
  528. Rt. Revd.
  529. rude
  530. Rumplenacht
  531. ryšavec
  532. ryšiak
  533. s
  534. sa
  535. Salafi Christian
  536. sannu
  537. sapota
  538. Sasang typology
  539. satellite navigation system
  540. Satnami
  541. scél
  542. schaffen
  543. scissors crossover
  544. scoot
  545. scotochromogenic
  546. screw over
  547. scrub
  548. séant
  549. second-
  550. seisin
  551. Serb
  552. Sermon on the Mount
  553. serve
  554. sewadar
  555. sex life
  556. sexual slavery
  557. shallow copy
  558. shazaam
  559. shimada
  560. shoot oneself in the foot
  561. shop
  562. shorty
  563. shtup
  564. sich
  565. sicker
  566. silent barter
  567. Silicone Valley
  568. sımarlamaq
  569. sine
  570. sing like a bird
  571. Sinhalese
  572. SIPRNET
  573. size matters
  574. skin up
  575. skollie
  576. slangrill
  577. Slavicism
  578. sleep under the same bridge
  579. so
  580. social profile
  581. sociopathy
  582. sodium alum
  583. somebody's
  584. sommer
  585. spanky pants
  586. spijten
  587. spiritual naturalism
  588. spiritually
  589. spryte
  590. spur on
  591. stafssetningarvillur
  592. stand
  593. star chamber
  594. Starfighter
  595. stathle
  596. statist
  597. steroisomeric
  598. stoppage time
  599. stroke
  600. substantia nigra
  601. subuh
  602. sudaca
  603. summa cum laude
  604. survival of the fittest
  605. sword
  606. syntagma
  607. tabbies
  608. taittuvateräinen
  609. take up
  610. Talk:loose
  611. Talk:mullet
  612. Talk:Stancel
  613. tallo
  614. tapeless workflow
  615. tavern
  616. TCB
  617. teater
  618. technological singularity
  619. TelePrompTer
  620. Template talk:audio
  621. Template talk:en-categoryTOC
  622. Template talk:eo-conj
  623. Template:cy-letter
  624. Template:cy-letter/doc
  625. Template:de-proper noun
  626. Template:en-phrase
  627. Template:Fallbeyging2
  628. Template:fornöfn
  629. Template:list:tech/en
  630. Template:ml-decl-noun
  631. Template:rfc
  632. Template:rfc-case
  633. Template:rfc/doc
  634. Template:User arc-1
  635. Template:User chr
  636. Template:User chr-3
  637. Template:User sga-1
  638. Template:User xcl-2
  639. Template:who vs. whom
  640. Template:yo-letter
  641. Template:yo-letter/doc
  642. tepezcuintle
  643. thallane
  644. Thebaic
  645. thousand one
  646. time
  647. tit for tat
  648. Tom
  649. top
  650. torr
  651. tort
  652. tough luck
  653. trac
  654. trần
  655. trans
  656. transmittant
  657. transpose
  658. Transwiki:Mirliton
  659. Transwiki:Multilingual list of Indian family relation names
  660. Transwiki:Multilingual list of Indian plants trees and flowers
  661. trick-or-treat
  662. trot
  663. trunnion
  664. tsubo
  665. tua
  666. tuga
  667. turn up one's nose
  668. two-spirit
  669. two dimensional universe
  670. ừ
  671. Ugandan affairs
  672. Ukonu
  673. umount
  674. undercast
  675. unition
  676. unloved
  677. unsolve
  678. up front
  679. User:Connel MacKenzie/lead2
  680. User:Index/LIS
  681. V.O.F.
  682. vagrant
  683. value system
  684. vaso
  685. velopharyngeal
  686. Verfügung
  687. versificator
  688. VFD
  689. viddy
  690. video conference
  691. villain
  692. Visitor
  693. visual arts
  694. vitam impendere vero
  695. vocal
  696. vodit
  697. voorleser
  698. vy
  699. washlet
  700. water to my mill
  701. weird
  702. West Frisian
  703. wetware
  704. wheel of Fortune
  705. who
  706. whoever
  707. whomever
  708. wi-fi array
  709. wikify
  710. Wikisaurus:badness
  711. Wikisaurus:judgement
  712. Wikisaurus:magician
  713. Wikisaurus:money
  714. Wikisaurus:speedy
  715. Wiktionary talk:Topics
  716. Wiktionary:Index to templates
  717. Wiktionary:IPA pronunciation key
  718. Wiktionary:Languages with more than one grammatical gender
  719. Wiktionary:Maintenance templates
  720. Wiktionary:Requests for cleanup
  721. windup
  722. wine
  723. with the spin
  724. withing
  725. Wohl
  726. worse comes to worst
  727. Xenophanes
  728. yaar
  729. yahoo
  730. yarray
  731. Yassa
  732. your honour
  733. youse
  734. zak
  735. zhengzifa
  736. zhengzifa ci
  737. zhengzifa cidian
  738. Zograf
  739. zoning
  740. zu haben
  741. ταυροκαθάψια
  742. изветрити
  743. луфтирати
  744. отруєння
  745. пиже
  746. сур'ёзны
  747. трп
  748. Хоангуо
  749. Хуанг Хо
  750. זאת
  751. סיבה
  752. الصمد
  753. بحسب
  754. ثم
  755. جُزَڻُ
  756. جهد
  757. دحاها
  758. سلمي
  759. صمد
  760. علق
  761. فلك
  762. كنيسة
  763. مسلمين
  764. مضغ
  765. مضغة
  766. نانکلی
  767. ولادة
  768. يجري
  769. يسبحون
  770. হাঁ
  771. ซ้าย
  772. かなりしてください
  773. じゃんけん
  774. ﾓｴ
  775. ㄋ
  776. 갂
  777. 옆
  778. 입
  779. 共産
  780. 凄い
  781. 差
  782. 拳术
  783. 拼
  784. 活発
  785. 深刻
  786. 珍多冰
  787. 理智
  788. 純
  789. 見積書
  790. 達
  791. 鹿
  792. 黃
  793. 黄砂

Archives to subpages[edit]

Latest comment: 10 years ago6 comments2 people in discussion

A lot of the discussions that have been archived to subpages have either been struck or are deleted entries. Surely these should be archived to the entry talk page and the template removed. They were ignored and festered while they were on the main project page. Shoving them in a sub-page has pretty much guaranteed they will be ignored forever. SpinningSpark 23:47, 21 July 2013 (UTC)Reply

If you want to move them to the entries' talk pages, that'd be great! I just archive them to a central location because it's less time consuming, and I have a limited amount of time. - -sche (discuss) 23:49, 21 July 2013 (UTC)Reply
Is there a template to wrap discussions moved to talk pages? SpinningSpark 01:41, 22 July 2013 (UTC)Reply
{{rfc-archived}}, which works like this. :) - -sche (discuss) 01:50, 22 July 2013 (UTC)Reply
By the way, that's for entries which are in the actual archives, or which are in the list of "unresolved requests" despite having been resolved (by being cleaned up or deleted). Entries which are in the lists of unresolved requests and which still have problems that need to be cleaned up should in theory not be de-tagged. I only moved them off the main page because otherwise the main page would be so large that people couldn't view or edit it. - -sche (discuss) 01:56, 22 July 2013 (UTC)Reply
Ok, got it, I'll thin them out a bit when I have some time. SpinningSpark 11:26, 22 July 2013 (UTC)Reply

Untagging tagged, unlisted terms when the reason for the tag cannot be determined[edit]

Latest comment: 1 year ago4 comments3 people in discussion

I propose that when a term has been tagged but never listed and no particular reason for the tag can be found, either in the tag itself, in the edit summary (of the edit which added the tag), or from the editor who tagged it, the term should simply be untagged rather than listed. As an example, EncycloPetey tagged Baal-gad for cleanup in 2010 without giving any explicit instruction in the tag or in their edit summary. I have asked them about the reason for the tag (recognizing it is from decades past), and have not yet received a response. Unless they do respond and are opposed to its removal, I think it is only reasonable to untag the term. — excarnateSojourner (talk · contrib) 01:07, 29 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

I must have missed the original query. I expect that my tag referred to the cryptic etymology that was on the page at the time, but which has sense been filled out. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:50, 29 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
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