Talk:ylw

RFD discussion: January–May 2019

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ylw

I can also find yllw, yel, yelow and yell as abbreviations, my vote is that all of them are ad hoc. - TheDaveRoss 17:02, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Delete, not lexicalized. Fay Freak (talk) 16:33, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Move to RFV and keep if attested, IMO. This is a bit of a grey area; we almost certainly don't want every name that starts with M and has been reduced to an initial to be listed at "M.", and having {{abbreviation of|yellow}} at "y." is at least a little murky (probably a large number of non-name words that start with any given letter can be abbreviated to their first letter)...but this seems like the sort of abbreviation we've tended to include. - -sche (discuss) 09:29, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

I think there is no question that this can be fairly readily attested. I think the question is more a matter of policy -- whether we want to include these somewhat ad-hoc-seeming abbreviations, and where to draw the line. The extent of such abbreviations in attestable use is pretty enormous, I think. In this case I vote weak keep. Mihia (talk) 15:17, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Send to RFV. If I were a non-native speaker of English, chances are I'd want to be able to look this sort of thing up. There are a finite number of abbreviations out there, and no reason why we can't include them. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 04:02, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Sent to RFV. — surjection ⟨?⟩ 10:02, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Two somewhat related discussions are Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/2018/December#Initials and the RFD discussion which will soon be archived at Talk:B. markmitchelli. - -sche (discuss) 21:27, 1 March 2020 (UTC)

RFV discussion: May–June 2019

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ylw

From an RFD discussion: Wiktionary:Requests for deletion/English#ylw. — surjection ⟨?⟩ 10:02, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Easily cited, e.g. here, here, here, and [1]. Kiwima (talk) 02:50, 31 May 2019 (UTC)

"RFV-passed' Kiwima (talk) 21:28, 7 June 2019 (UTC)