Talk:African Dingo

RFV discussion: December 2022–February 2023

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African Dingo

This entry hath been bestowed unto us by A3A0, who is not particularly known for accuracy. That said, it's superficially plausible. I can find some hits for "African dingo/dingoes/dingos" on Google Books, but can we establish that it actually refers to the Basenji? For example, this book (which obviously doesn't treat the term as lexical due to the "some sort of") uses the phrase in reference to an entirely different species, the African wild dog. That said, I can find sources online that say Basenji is "also known as" the African dingo, but those are mentions. Minor point: should "Dingo" be capitalized? 70.172.194.25 23:13, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

I can't think of a reason why "Dingo" or "Dog" should be capitalized in any of the synonyms listed at Basenji. Cf. African wild dog (as you mentioned), African elephant, African penguin, etc. Voltaigne (talk) 00:25, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Some books like to capitalize the names of creatures (Red-tailed Hawk, Red Oak, etc); this has caused many an edit-war on Wikipedia, but I think we can stick with lowercase as in the examples you name. - -sche (discuss) 03:25, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

French Wiktionary includes a usage note in each entry for species names, stating that they can also be capitalized (without having a separate entry for capitalized forms). A usage note might be a bit much, but maybe there's some systematic way we can indicate this? Andrew Sheedy (talk) 23:15, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Ango Angari

Similar to the above. 70.172.194.25 23:16, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Occurs in various issues of the magazine Modern Basenji, but none of those use it in a sentence. The plural form Ango Angaris, which we also have, doesn't seem to be attested at all except in this web page that is clearly auto-generated from a template [1] (compare [2], [3], etc.). 70.172.194.25 23:08, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

Egyptian Dingo

Similar to the above. 70.172.194.25 00:10, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

RFV Failed. Ioaxxere (talk) 02:17, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

For all of these? Did you personally try to find uses and come up empty handed, or are you just closing this because the required time has elapsed? I kinda had a suspicion that “African Dingo” might be salvageable, but wasn’t sure. In general, I think it would be a good idea to at least have one person other than the RfV-nominator confirm the inability/difficulty in citing a word before failing it. 70.172.194.25 02:21, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

@Ioaxxere I greatly applaud your efforts to reduce the RfV backlog. But I kinda don’t want my personal inability to find a word to be the sole basis on which an entry is deleted. I’m not sure whether you are investigating all of these, since you’re going through them very quickly. If you are investigating, maybe you could leave a note like “Couldn’t find this either” alongside the RfV-failed message. If you’re not investigating the words, I guess the policy doesn’t say anything against that, but I’ll probably have to start using {{rfquote}} more instead of {{rfv}} for words I’m on the fence about. 70.172.194.25 02:41, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

No, I haven't looked into any of the terms and seemingly no one else has either (for the last months). If you just want to find quotes, then rfquote seems like a better option. Ioaxxere (talk) 03:04, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

I've looked, though I'm not usually chasing after cites for obscure aliases for dog breeds. I didn't look at UseNet or at the web as a whole. There probably are mentions at breed-lover sites. There might be uses there. DCDuring (talk) 16:32, 9 February 2023 (UTC)