On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:23 AM, David Levy lifeisunfair@gmail.com wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
In this example, the concept *is* the word, with its cultural history, associations etc.
Anthony replied:
Can you give an example of that in a traditional encyclopedia?
The English Wikipedia contains individual articles about each of the 144 "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" television episodes. Can you give an example of that in a traditional encyclopedia?
That might be a relevant question if we were discussing whether or not has television episode guide entries. As it stands we're discussing whether or not it has dictionary entries.
As implicitly acknowledged in your question, Wikipedia isn't a traditional encyclopedia.
And that's my whole point. Wikipedia *does* contain lots of dictionary entires, even though there is a page saying that it shouldn't.
And if the concept is the word, shouldn't the title of the article be [[the word "meh"]]?
Why?
Disambiguation. I guess [["meh"]] would be acceptable, though. It's not so important with interjections, but any word which is a noun would suffer from the problem. [[shithead]] should be about shitheads, not the word shithead, just like [[dog]] is about dogs, not the word dog.