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There was a long debate about whether or not to create this template. Read more about it at Wiktionary:Votes/2021-04/Creation of Template:inh+ and Template:bor+ (it's really boring) Wubble You (talk) 19:09, 27 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

RFD discussion: June–September 2021

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Should be deleted per Creation of Template:inh+ and Template:bor+. See Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/2021/June#{{bor+}}_and_{{inh+}}. --{{victar|talk}} 20:35, 18 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

  • Keep. As Benwing2 and Lambiam pointed out on that vote, there was no reason to hold a vote in the first place. "New templates that add additional functionality without changing existing functionality shouldn't need a vote." And the vote just barely failed - it would have passed if the deadline were just a few hours later. There's certainly consensus if we go by the spirit, rather than the most strict reading of, our voting policies. Imetsia (talk) 22:00, 18 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
    If they created the templates without a vote, myself or someone else would have created a vote to delete them and we would have ended up in the same place. --{{victar|talk}} 22:57, 18 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
    I don't think that's quite true, though. If the vote hadn't taken place and the templates had been created straightaway, there would need to be a consensus for their deletion here. But given the results of the vote, there clearly is no such consensus. PUC ~ 212.224.238.99 11:20, 19 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
    The status quo is that they aren't in use, so the vote would have been for their usage, not their deletion. --{{victar|talk}} 13:16, 19 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
  • Keep. At User talk:Benwing2 § Ongoing vote, @Benwing2 said: “if everyone needed a vote to do add any new feature, nothing would get done”. This is exactly what is happening now —— this is a simple and harmless new feature but it is causelessly being opposed by so many. Those who oppose {{inh+}}: why? A "+" sign is easier than "From" also. The vote was unnecessary so we shouldn't really count that. @AryamanA did vote after the vote ended; that makes it 20-10-2. It doesn't make the vote pass, but shows that majority is, at least okay with this. 🔥शब्दशोधक🔥 05:07, 19 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
    See above, but to repeat, if you didn't create the vote, I would have, and it would have been the same outcome: {{bor+}} and {{inh+}} are banned. Period. --{{victar|talk}} 05:26, 19 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
    @Victar: See the outcome of this first then say. If these pass here, you are requested not to create another vote just to waste people's time. 🔥शब्दशोधक🔥 05:32, 19 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
    This isn't a vote -- the vote already happened -- this is simply a formality and a request that those pages be admin-locked. If it was up to me, I would have you blocked for a week as well for disruptive edits. --{{victar|talk}} 05:36, 19 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
  • Keep. It was a mistaking on my part to have started a vote for this; such minor changes do not need a vote in the first place, and I was misled by Victar & Co.’s contention into creating the vote. Since this was nothing more than an opinion poll, the vote’s result is null and void. There’s no question of deleting these new templets, at the very most a BP discussion ’bout th’ templets may ensue instead. ·~ dictátor·mundꟾ 06:13, 19 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
    Just forget about the vote, if someone had created these templets earlier, there would have been no vote. Now these templets display the etymological text with the words “inherited” & ”borrowed” linked to Glossary, so I think there’s no reason we should miss the benefit of having the keywords hyperlinked (being consistent with other etymology templets). Plainly writing ’from’ not only seems to be discriminating against inheritances and loanwords, but also is confusing for those who clean up etymologies ({{der}}, {{inh}}, and {{bor}} all currently use a plain ‘from’), not to mention it is irksome for our readers likewise; whilst advocating against the usage of the new templets seems ridiculous: why would two templets (with just an additional plus sign) beget confusion?—wikis are full of templets that are meant to further consistency. Instead of complaining about having additional templets, the opposers should accept the fact that we are solving some real issue. ·~ dictátor·mundꟾ 14:12, 19 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
  • Keep because I don't think a precedent should be established that new templates need a supermajority to be created. There are templates that Victar created that I don't like, e.g. {{dercat}}, but I would not think to require a vote before allowing them to be created. Benwing2 (talk) 07:44, 19 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
    If you're of the opinion that any templates I've created should be deleted, feel free to start a vote. Having lead text in derivational templates has been a long contended issue, which is why a vote was especially needed in this case. --{{victar|talk}} 09:02, 19 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
    I feel like we're doing the same thing over and over again. We have already voted on the creation of these templates, the outcome was no consensus, hence the templates shouldn't be created. It's as simple as that: if we can't hold ourselves to the outcome of a vote, then we can't keep any order and everyone is free to do whatever they want. Even if I personally weren't against these specific templates (which, suffice to say, I am), it sets a very dangerous precedent to ignore the outcome of a vote. Thadh (talk) 09:30, 19 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
  • While I do agree with the template creators that "a reader should be able to read what the exact mode of derivation of a word is instead of having to see the wikitext or check the categories" (which is why I always - manually - add "borrowed from" or "inherited from", and why I oppose the removal of these specifications in diff or diff), I think these templates are unnecessary (per Mahagaja: "If you want to say "Borrowed from" or "Inherited from", just write it in. No reason to complicate things by adding two new templates"), and I would prefer that they be deleted (per Jberkel: "We are creating a culture in which redundant/overlapping templates are added because no consensus can be found on the existing ones"), though I won't insist too much.
What I do oppose strongly is any kind of template substitution such as this one. If the goal of the template creators is simply to save keystrokes (a feeble argument if you ask me, but whatever), let them use the templates in new entries / new etymology sections, but I see absolutely no reason for them to go around replacing plain text with templatized text, thereby making things harder to edit. There's a reason why I pushed for removing the text from {{bor}}: it's more flexible that way, as I don't have to use the pesky |notext= / |nocap= parameters. I certainly don't want to go back to that.
In my opinion, if these templates are kept, there should be a motion that they can only be used in new entries/sections/instances, that they cannot be used to replace plain text that's already there, and on the contrary that they can be replaced with plain text by anyone who should wish to do so. Otherwise we will have an inconsistent mess.
Also I deliberately ignored the vote, but had I taken part in it (which I would have if I'd seen it was going to pass), I would have voted weak oppose, per Mahagaja, Jberkel and -sche (see Beer Parlour), so I'm not so sure the 2/3 threshold would have been reached (see, however, my response to Victar above). PUC ~ 212.224.238.99 09:27, 19 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
See also Wiktionary:Beer parlour/2021/June § Consensus on adding |withtext=1 parameters to {{bor}} and {{inh}}. J3133 (talk) 05:39, 28 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Keep, no cogent reason for deletion, that vote does not carry force to disallow the creation or existence of these templates anyway. The bloody sodding thing almost passed with 2/3s anyway, it is utterly ridiculous to read that vote as a consensus for deletion of the templates. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 16:28, 14 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
  • Done RFDs-Kept (9 keeps — 6 deletes); it has been one month since these were nominated for deletion. Since these are kept, here's what I'll add:
    1. Replacing "Inherited/Borrowed from" or "From" (like diff) with the new templates is fine as it adds a glossary link.
    2. Replacing the new templates with the full text along with glossary link (like diff) is fine, as it removes nothing from the entry. However replacing these with "Inherited/Borrowed from" (without glossary link) or "From" (like diff) should not be done. 🔥शब्दशोधक🔥 07:44, 19 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
    I'm sorry, that's not something you can just decide like that. For example, if you change an Ingrian etymology from "From" to "Inherited from" I will personally undo that edit because it's wholly rediculous. If someone doesn't know Ingrian inherits from Proto-Finnic and wants it typed out, maybe they shouldn't be using our etymology sections for that language. Moreover, I'm skeptical this discussion can be closed. Thadh (talk) 14:00, 19 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
    What harm does {{glossary|Inherited}} do? Why can't it be up to the editor who's creating the entry to decide whether or not they want to use {{glossary|Inherited}}? @Victar is now claiming that the term "inherited" shouldn't be used in the etymology sections because inheritance is implied (diff). I think @Benwing2, Kutchkutch should be asked about their opinion on this too. -- 𝓑𝓱𝓪𝓰𝓪𝓭𝓪𝓽𝓽𝓪(𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴) 08:34, 20 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
    • @Thadh, I must vehemently disagree with your apparent contention that a user who is ignorant of the relationship between Ingrian and Proto-Finnic is somehow not worthy of having things clearly explained. How else would anyone learn these things? If I, as someone ignorant of both Ingrian and Proto-Finnic, were to land on the entry for an Ingrian term, how would I understand that "from" means explicitly "inherited from"? There are many mechanisms whereby a term from language (or proto-language) A makes its way into language B. Simply saying "from" with no further explanation is insufficiently clear.
    As the English Wiktionary, we can only safely assume that our readers can read English. We cannot assume that our readers know everything what we know. Excessive abbreviation and omission creates unnecessary barriers to understanding. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 21:48, 13 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
    @Eirikr: A user should only use the tools they are capable of using. That is why we don't link every IPA character, why we don't link every name of a grammatical case or verbal aspect and why we don't explain the entirety of grammar to the reader: we are not an encyclopedia. If a user doesn't know what Ingrian is, they either don't use that section in our dictionary, or they go to the Wikipedia article or just google it. If they don't know what Proto-Finnic is, ditto. It doesn't take a lot of understanding to get our etymology sections without the linked "inherited" or "borrowed", but those do make it sound like we think of our readers as of idiots. They aren't, and I have yet to see a feedback that concerns this. And for the record, if you're ignorant of both Ingrian and Proto-Finnic, see the terms *kakci and kaks, and don't know it's inherited, you probably don't need that distinction made, because you don't know the difference. This is all trying to please a group of people that doesn't exist. Thadh (talk) 09:15, 14 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
    • @Thadh: Even if I have a rough understanding of the relationship between Ingrian and Finnic, such as might be gleaned from a Wikipedia article, where do we (Wiktionary in general) explain what the default meaning of "from" is in etymology sections? I'm not aware of any reason for a user to assume that "from" consistently means "inherited from".
    The entire purpose of an etymology section is to explain the derivation of a term. I am honestly confused at your apparent opposition to explaining derivations clearly -- even to the point of undoing anyone else's addition of the word "inherited". If another editor has gone to the effort of inserting this additional detail, presumably they thought this was useful; why remove it if it is correct?
    You mention linking to IPA or labels for cases or aspects. We do link to the Wikipedia page for IPA in our pronunciation templates for Japanese, as you can see at 膨れる#Pronunciation. This is a simple and unobtrusive measure to improve usability and discoverability -- if a user is curious what IPA is, they only have to click the link to find out.
    I strongly feel we should do the same for case and aspect labels. English readers can be assumed to understand basic grammatical vocabulary used to describe English, such as verb or adjective. But what is adessive, as used for Hungarian nouns such as hal#Hungarian? Hungarian templates link through to the appropriate entries. This is a simple and unobtrusive measure to improve usability and discoverability -- if a user is curious what adessive means in the context of Hungarian inflection tables, they only have to click the link to find out.
    By contrast, we have the -TʼEʼ#Navajo entry. The tables here have opaque and unclear labels, and tables have unexplained variations in the labels, such as MOM, NEUT, ABS, COMP for the first table, or MOM, CONT, REP, SEM for the second. From other studies, I think MOM means momentaneous, and NEUT means neuter (indicating a particular kind of defective verb inflection paradigm). But I'm not entirely sure what the other labels expand to. Nor do I have a full understanding what momentaneous and neuter mean in the context of Navajo verbs. Adding links from these labels through to pages that explain them would be a simple and unobtrusive measure to improve usability and discoverability.
    Your position seems very dismissive and hostile towards learners. I hope I am merely misunderstanding you. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 18:55, 16 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
    @Eirikr: Every language has its own basic set of vocabulary a learner ought to know before being able to use a dictionary. That's been the case in any print dictionary as well: A native monolingual speaker of Afar won't know what an adjective is, or a numeral, or even an article for that matter, and to use an English-Afar dictionary he would need to. An English reader may not know the concept of a grammatical case, or alienability. So it is for our dictionary, too: You are expected to know the basics of the grammar and history of the language you want to read the entry for, and that's true for beginners and advanced learners alike.
    Now, I believe that an etymology is the study of the origin of the word, so if an etymology says "From Fooish bar", it seems reasonable that it means "[This term comes] [f]rom Fooish bar". Ask yourself this: How many of our readers that don't know anything about historical linguistics and wouldn't be able to understand what this sequence of words implies would actually bother to try and understand the etymology sections, even if they were expanded this way? Thadh (talk) 21:14, 16 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
    @Thadh: I think your operating assumptions are setting too high a bar. As I stated above, we can only assume familiarity with English. We need not, and should not, cater to Afar speakers, any more than we cater to Ingrian speakers, or Klingon speakers. We need, and should, cater to English speakers. In that, I must disagree with your contention that "You are expected to know the basics of the grammar and history of the language you want to read the entry for" -- our audience is readers of English, not readers of the target language. While there is inevitably some specialized terminology used to describe any language, that terminology should be explained somewhere, and that explanation should be discoverable with minimal effort from the entry page for any given term in that language, as I tried to illustrate above with examples from Japanese, Hungarian, and Navajo.
    Regarding your etymology example, if an etymology section merely says "From Fooish bar", this does not provide the level of detail required to understand clearly what the actual relationship is -- was this term borrowed? Calqued? Inherited? Otherwise influenced or inspired? The addition of a mere word or two could easily clarify this unnecessary ambiguity.
    I don't understand your apparent demand that users arrive here already equipped with specialized knowledge, and your seeming insistence that we not provide simple and unobtrusive aids to the learner. I argue that omitting such aids is harmful in that it makes Wiktionary harder to use, for no benefit I can see. What harm is there in adding the word "inherited" to clarify that certain Ingrian terms are inherited from Proto-Finnic? What harm is there in linking grammatical terms in inflection tables to their respective entries here or on Wikipedia?
    If you can explain what harm you see from measures such as these, I would appreciate an explanation of your viewpoint. Honestly and sincerely, I do not understand where you're coming from. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 04:27, 17 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
    LMFAO! --{{victar|talk}} 19:41, 20 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Thadh It may be "rediculous" to you to specify explicitly whether a term is inherited or borrowed in a language like Ingrian vs. Proto-Finnic, but it's far from ridiculous in a language like Italian vs. Latin or Hindi vs. Sanskrit, where terms can be both borrowed and inherited from the same language and it's often far from obvious even to an expert which one is the case. I see no harm, and a lot of good, in using these templates in cases like this. Benwing2 (talk) 05:07, 21 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Benwing2: Your comment is proof that one should never put something off until tomorrow what they can do today; I wanted to comment this as a reply to Bhagadatta, but I put it off to today :/. Anyway, while I can indeed see the benefit for a handful of mother-daughter language relations, I think what Sodhak is proposing is absurd and harmful for the majority of languages. They propose to standardise the usage of these templates for ALL languages, irrespective of the community's choice. And, on the whole, I believe that normalising the usage of "Borrowed from" and reserving "From" either for inheritances or obvious (from context) derivations is a far more effective way to deal with these language relations. Thadh (talk) 05:47, 21 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
And yet, Italian has managed to not write "inherited from" in their etymologies. I do absolutely agree that "borrowed from" should also be written out when applicible. --{{victar|talk}} 06:15, 21 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
Proposing to standardise the usage of these templates for ALL languages may be a step too far. @Bhagadatta, Victar, Thadh: When Sanskrit is involved in the etymologies of Indo-Aryan languages, "From" can be ambiguous, so explicitly indicating which process occurred at which stage is more helpful than trying to eliminate any possible redundancies. In addition, there are cases in which Indo-Aryan terms can be inherited from borrowed terms. Kutchkutch (talk) 12:37, 22 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
I'm not familiar enough with Indo-Aryan languages to be able to either support or oppose this. I've only ever edited Garhwali, but I don't have any particular opinion on this matter. For Romance languages, however, I think "inherited from" is overkill, because most words are inherited, while the borrowed words are in my experience mostly either scientific, religious or some other way not part of the day-to-day vocabulary. Not to mention the fact we already distinguish Latin, Vulgar Latin, Late Latin, Medieval Latin and Ecclesiastical Latin exactly for the purpose of dating the borrowings/inheritances. Thadh (talk) 14:23, 22 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
Tatsamas from Sanskrit aren't any different than learned borrowings in Romance languages from Latin. They don't require any special treatment. --{{victar|talk}} 20:36, 22 July 2021 (UTC)Reply
That's not how this works. PUC was active during the time of the vote, and following it closely, and according to him, he would vote if Aryaman weren't too late as well, so his vote is symbolic for the fact that Aryaman's vote can't be used as an excuse. None of the users you just pinged were part of the discussion (either then or even now) and as such don't prove anything. Thadh (talk) 10:32, 13 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
I have already said that PUC was editing as an IP during those days, and so it’s wellnigh impossible for him to have cast his vote. AryamanA’s vote matters; and of the users I have pinged, Taimoorahmed11 has voted keep above. ·~ dictátor·mundꟾ 12:47, 13 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Thadh, Inqilābī I did cast my vote at the time, was I late in casting my vote?
-Taimoor Ahmed(گل بات؟) 12:39, 13 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Taimoorahmed11: Was not talking of this RFDO vote, but the original vote where PUC belatedly cast his vote. ·~ dictátor·mundꟾ 12:47, 13 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
Keep, templates are harmless and useful at least in languages I edit (Sanskrit, Kashmiri). Not that my vote carries any meaning :(. Rishabhbhat (talk) 05:12, 19 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
Keep, if votes are still counted, This template is incredibly useful for me, as an Urdu contributor.
-Taimoor Ahmed(گل بات؟) 15:37, 19 August 2021 (UTC)Reply
Struck because already voted. Imetsia (talk) 14:30, 27 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

Delete. It links to lame texts in the glossary which should also be deleted. If somebody didn’t have an idea that words can either be inherited or borrowed, as two main ways words pass into a language, he will not learn it from there. Which leaves us only the argument that these templates save keystrokes. But editors can add every nonsense to their interfaces (on Wiktionary and the software whereby the access it) to save keystrokes—this should be supported, not cluttering other peoples' editing windows with ever new templates. As a reminder, my main reason for voting oppose on these templates is a concern with the source code readability, its elements becoming less distinctive by templates looking so similar in the source but so distinct on the reader’s side. This may appear to some as an obscure argument but in the event if we have these templates then there are tons of cases where one also has to correct instances of {{bor+}} and {{inh+}} attempted to be used where perhaps something will have to be done about |nocap=1 or other parameters etc. Beware of making it complicated, the temptation for infinite expansion is great. Our editing windows are not Emacs or Vim to have a power-user combination or template for every repetitive text. Like with those who first encounter vim, the prime question of editors will be “how to quit” this straining website. Fay Freak (talk) 01:10, 20 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

  • RFD-passed finally. It has been over a month, and the discussion is stagnant. The community and even the opposers have accepted that these 2 templates have passed RFD, but the debate/controversy on their usage remains. Svārtava209:39, 27 September 2021 (UTC)Reply