Talk:all kidding aside
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English: to '(all) kidding aside', which would be a small change to the existing entry at kidding aside.
IMHO this is an example of a more economical and informative way of presenting information about some multi-word entries. Some MWEs can accept the insertion of one and only one word into the expression. Strictly speaking, there is nothing wrong with our existing approach, except that both forms tend to become, or risk becoming, full entries, as in this case. If we believe this approach is right in this case, I would put the general idea to BP consideration and, if considered necessary, a vote.
Some standardization of approach to optional terms (like this one) and dummy terms (someone, something, someone or something) in English headwords might be worth codifying, either as a policy or as a guideline. Similarly '(be)' might be a desirable element of the headword display when some other copulative verbs could replace be. Also some standardization of the use of hard redirects might be helpful. DCDuring (talk) 18:40, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
- Not merged. Alt form is fine Denazz (talk) 12:49, 26 September 2024 (UTC)