stevertigo wrote:
Nikola Smolenski wrote:
I suggest a hatnote on the main page of the site: "This is the website of Wikimedia United Kingdom. For other uses, see uk.wikimedia.org (disambiguation)."
I actually coined the word "hatnote" - probably in violation of our 'no neologisms' policy.
I don't know about the "no neologisms" rule, but it did come up some time ago in Wiktionary on the basis that you can't just invent a word for the sake of putting it into a dictionary. There had to be evidence of the word's prior usage. Somebody there invented the term "protologism" for a word that did not yet fit the standard for neologisms.
A neologism is most effective when everybody that reads it knows what it means without ever having seen it before.
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