Hi, Le Wednesday 22 September 2004 19:52, Peter Gervai a écrit : Because they are different words? In any French paper dictionary, [[pH]] and [[Ph]] will have *two* entries, not one. So why not in Wiktionary? This rule has to be decided for each language. In French, these words are even often separated in two books. One for lower case words (noms communs) and one for upper case words (noms propres, i.e. people, places, etc.). No, for me [[Ph]], [[pH]] and [[ph]] are three different words. If I edit [[pH]], I don't expect to find [[Ph]]. But maybe a link in == See also == might help. Best regards, Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikipedia.org/ | Encyclopédie libre http://www.forget-me.net/pro/ | Formations et services Linux

Hi, There is another reason to differentiate capitalized words. I think that the first useful use of Wiktionary is to learn a foreign language, especially for a beginner. You don't need a complete dictionary for that, you just need the most common words, which you already have in English, or will have soon in other languages. If I use Wiktionary to learn English, I need to know that the language of England is spelled [[English]] and not [[english]], and that the fist month of the year is written [[January]] and not [[january]]. The same situation occurs in any language which uses capitals (English, German, French, etc.). In German, a cat is spelled [[Katze]] and not [[katze]], and in French, [[chat]] and not [[Chat]]. Regards, Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikipedia.org/ | Encyclopédie libre http://www.forget-me.net/pro/ | Formations et services Linux

Roman Maurer wrote: That's an unnecessarily semantic distinction. IIRC there was a similar discussion over Wikipedia some time back over whether it contained "articles" or "pages". It really doesn't matter much. You could say that Wiktionary "articles" contain "dictionary definitions", but they also contain other data about the word or term. :-) Ec