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Is this a noun? Is it even English? Is it capitalised like this? So many questions. I can understand why we have an entry for meta tag, but this one is harder to stomach. This, that and the other (talk) 06:15, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
- Yes, I doubt HTML tags should be regarded as words. — Sgconlaw (talk) 12:01, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
- The hypertext markup language is definitely not the English language or any other natural language. It is not a conlan either; HTML has no parts of speech such as nouns, verbs and adjectives, and HTML tags do not carry meaning in the sense that words in natural languages do. HTML tags are case-insensitive; one could write
<mEtA property="og:title" content="META - Wiktionary, the free dictionary">using camel case. --Lambiam 17:35, 14 October 2023 (UTC)- Yes, but should the "lemma" be capitalised, given that people stopped capitalising HTML tag names about 20 years ago? Thankfully, by your argument that's a moot point. This, that and the other (talk) 22:14, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
- Move to Translingual, preferably as lowercase. The English section was added to an existing Finnish acronym entry in 2018 for no discernible reason. @Nicole Sharp seems knowledgeable enough on technical subject matter, but not on organizing it for an online dictionary. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:52, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
- Delete. Not natural language. There are literally millions of programming keywords, tags, and API class/method names. Equinox ◑ 23:05, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
- Just for the "keep everything" people (who begin with D): let's just look at "what's obsolete" (a very very short list of things that have been removed from the framework recently): DefineDynamicAssembly, ExecuteAssembly, ExecuteAssemblyByName, AssemblyHash, you may enjoy hundreds more on the page [1]. And this is just what's obsolete, in one specific software framework, at one point in time. And they don't have definitions. You may also want to investigate food colorants. Equinox ◑ 06:37, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
- This user beginning with D is abstaining. DonnanZ (talk) 11:38, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
- Just for the "keep everything" people (who begin with D): let's just look at "what's obsolete" (a very very short list of things that have been removed from the framework recently): DefineDynamicAssembly, ExecuteAssembly, ExecuteAssemblyByName, AssemblyHash, you may enjoy hundreds more on the page [1]. And this is just what's obsolete, in one specific software framework, at one point in time. And they don't have definitions. You may also want to investigate food colorants. Equinox ◑ 06:37, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
- Delete. Not a word in any language. --Lambiam 11:06, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
- <marquee>Delete</marquee>. Jberkel 12:12, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
- For clarity, I vote delete. — Sgconlaw (talk) 15:05, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
- Keep iff there are three uses in running text. Otherwise, delete. CitationsFreak (talk) 04:28, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
If not appropriate as a mainspace entry, then you need to move all HTML elements to a Wiktionary Appendix and create Wiktionary Appendices for other computer programming and markup languages as well. These are important terms that should be defined somewhere on Wiktionary if not in mainspace. Nicole Sharp (talk) 03:39, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
- We do have a sister project called Wikipedia for such things … — Sgconlaw (talk) 06:12, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
- Delete as not natural language. — excarnateSojourner (talk · contrib) 00:08, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
- Delete. I can imagine this could be a word like "div", but i have never heard of "a META". I would expect "a meta tag" rather. Unless such usage has been common, this shouldn't have a page. --GreyAlien502 (talk) 02:32, 14 September 2024 (UTC)
RFD-deleted. — Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 00:53, 24 November 2024 (UTC)