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Wikiquote

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To delete, as per Wikispecies - any citations given would be mere mentions, hasn't got into the English lexicon. --Keene 11:39, 5 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Wikispecies restored. DAVilla 14:04, 5 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
Keep as WMF jargon not specific to Wiktionary (and now properly tagged). Best, -- Visviva 11:57, 5 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
Delete. At best, it and wikispecies belong in a protolog-like list. In addition, they're both sum of parts: wiki + quote in this case.--Halliburton Shill 02:37, 7 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
There is no way that this is sum-of-parts, nor is it unidiomatic (which is much more important). Delete it anyway. — Beobach972 03:22, 7 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
This is a brand name, is it not? Let's apply my proposed criteria for inclusion of brand names. Can someone show me three references in independent media spanning a year which use the word without describing the product it represents? No? Delete. bd2412 T 02:47, 7 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
I dunno, this seems to show that your proposed criteria get a little blurry when dealing with non-physical entities. There are certainly plenty of Usenet hits (in groups not directly tied to WMF) of the form "here's something that was posted on Wikiquote: (url)" or "I saw something interesting on Wikiquote" the other day." Neither of these mentions what Wikiquote is; but then again, does the presence of a URL indicate that this is a "mention" rather than a "use"?
IMO, the answer to this question doesn't actually matter, because providing an appropriately-tagged set of shared WMF terms is a useful and appropriate role for Wiktionary to play, just as it is appropriate for Commons to host copyrighted WMF logos that would be deleted on sight if they came from any other project. -- Visviva 11:25, 8 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
Are Usenet hits even useable as sources towards the CFI? I thought we required materials to be printed (or at least "durably archived"). How can I search these Usenet hits? Cheers! bd2412 T 04:10, 9 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
Well, per the WT:CFI, "this naturally favors electronic media such as ...usenet groups, which are durably archived by Google." I'm not actually sure how durable Google's archive can be assumed to be, but at any rate, Usenet/GGroups has been accepted as a valid source here for some time; and it's probably fair to say that there will always be *some* Usenet archive out there. Ayway, see for example groups hits for "on Wikiquote". Best, -- Visviva 04:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)Reply
I realize the outcome of this discussion is unlikely to hinge on this, but I have added 3 quotes from Usenet that would seem to meet the proposed criteria. Interested in feedback. -- Visviva 04:41, 9 July 2007 (UTC)Reply


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Wikiquote

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Replace with {{only in}} referring to the glossary that has wikijargon. DCDuring TALK 18:58, 5 June 2010 (UTC)Reply

Delete per (deprecated template usage) Twitter. Being a WMF site doesn't give it any exemption and possibly makes it even worse (incest). Equinox 19:00, 5 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
Delete per Equinox. Mglovesfun (talk) 19:14, 5 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
keep if so, then we should delete Wikipedia, Wikinews, Wikinewsie, etc. --Diego Grez 19:15, 5 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
And Wiktionary, delete the lot, although Wikipedia has other senses. Mglovesfun (talk) 19:47, 5 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
I would prefer to keep these, since no argument has ever been made that including WMF terminology poses any sort of threat to the project, and hosting such terms is of demonstrable value in raising our visibility (and capacity for recruitment) within the Wikimedia community. The only arguments against them seemed to be based on a ludicrously inflated idea of Wiktionary's status. That said, excluding "WMF jargon" is supposed to be settled policy, and I'm confused as to why these weren't all deleted years ago. -- Visviva 21:03, 5 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
Yes Visviva, per my comment below, we're supposed to delete them even when they can be cited per WT:Criteria for inclusion. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:58, 5 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
FWIW I get equally annoyed by measured to exclude attestable terms used on Wikimedia projects like userbox which meets of the criteria necessary, about from a clause about WMF. IMO anyone who wants to keep this should want to keep the name of every attestable website on the web. But... those are all words in a language. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:45, 5 June 2010 (UTC)Reply
Delete and why isn't this obvious? DAVilla 11:37, 20 July 2010 (UTC)Reply

Replaced with {{only in}}.​—msh210 (talk) 18:26, 1 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

Comment regarding the RFD

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If this is ever attested in sources that are durable and independent of each other and of the WMF, I dispute that there are grounds for excluding it. It's worth noting that our rules regarding various other classes of names (including placenames and personal names) have changed in various ways since 2010. - -sche (discuss) 03:35, 7 January 2013 (UTC)Reply