On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:23 AM, David Levy <lifeisunfair(a)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.