Wiktionary talk:Votes/pl-2015-02/Trimming CFI for Wiktionary is not an encyclopedia

Rationale

The sentence "Many places, and some people, are known by single word names that qualify for inclusion as given names or family names" suggests that the English Wiktionary includes place names only as long as they are given names ("Martina", "Peter") or family names ("Attenborough"). That is obviously incorrect. The vote that established broad consensus about broad inclusion of geographic names is this: Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2010-05/Placenames with linguistic information 2: --Dan Polansky (talk) 16:21, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Surely the problem with the sentence is the "as given names or family names" at the end. "Many places, and some people, are known by single word names that qualify for inclusion" would be more correct, while maintaining the flow of thought between sentence 1 and sentence 3. Smurrayinchester (talk) 14:14, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

We also include New York; the sentence you propose suggests we only include single word names. You could then change it to "Many places, and some people, are known by names that qualify for inclusion", which does not say much; the whole point (a wrong one) that the author of the original sentence was trying to make is lost, namely that we are somehow very exclusive about place names. --Dan Polansky (talk) 18:58, 2 February 2015 (UTC)