User talk:88.251.40.159

"Proper noun"

A "proper noun" is a noun that denotes a unique entity (or rather, one that behaves grammatically as if it did). For example, Adana is a proper noun. Adanalı is not, since there are many people from Adana. —Ruakh_TALK 15:27, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Adanalı, İstanbullu, Amerikan, etc. are proper nouns in Turkish. --88.251.40.159 15:33, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

I don't think so. See w:Proper noun. (Also, please reply here. There's no need to copy this discussion back and forth between our talk-pages. Or, better yet — create an account, and we can move this to the account's talk-page.) —Ruakh_TALK 15:37, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Again, they are proper nouns in Turkish. All Turkish sources (including Turkish Language Association) classify them as "proper nouns". --88.251.40.159 15:47, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Does the Turkish Language Association publish its materials in English? Because the question isn't, "is there some Turkish term that's similar to 'proper noun' and covers these terms?", it's "are these terms covered by the English term 'proper noun'?" And I think the answer is "no". —Ruakh_TALK 15:52, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

These terms are already in the category of "Turkish proper nouns" in the English Wiktionary. And I'm not the one who created all those entries. I think you gotta contact the other Turkish-speaking contributors here. Now, let me finish the remaining provinces :). --88.251.40.159 16:09, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

I've blocked you for a day to keep you from creating demonyms for every place in Turkey before we hear back from Turkish-speaking editors. From what little I know, these seem to be adjectives that can function as nouns, rather than proper nouns. They may be regularly derived from proper nouns, but aren't proper nouns themselves. I'll defer to Turkish-speaking editors who understand how we do things here, of course. Chuck Entz (talk) 16:24, 5 August 2012 (UTC)