Wiktionary talk:Requests for cleanup

Documentation

Lists

Categories:

• Category:Requests for cleanup

Templates:

• {{rfc}}
• {{rfc-sense}}

Documentation of the cleanup process:

• Wiktionary:Requests for cleanup/Header
• Help:Nominating an article for cleanup or deletion
• Wiktionary:Cleanup and deletion process

This project page is for requests for cleanup, pages that are badly formatted, badly written or ambiguous. If the existence of the entry is in question, it should be at Wiktionary:Requests for verification. If the dictionary worthiness is in question, it should be listed at Wiktionary:Requests for deletion.

To create a request for cleanup, add the template {{rfc}} or {{rfc-sense}} into the entry requiring an cleanup, and then add an item to this page by clicking "+" in the box that the {{rfc}} template has created on the page in question.

When a request is completed, the completed item can be closed by striking out the heading of the item, often with a word in bold such as done, foxed or striking.

Archiving: Since the end of 2009, cleanup debates are archived to the entry's talk page. However cleanup debates are often very short, in this case it's ok to remove the debate without archiving it; it is the archiver's job to decide if there is enough "usable content" to merit an archive.

Discussion

Various

I've completely reformatted the top-of-the-page instructions, hopefully improving their readability a bit without changing their essential meaning. - dcljr 10:52, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Keeping the Cleanup page clean

Is there any protocol for clearing out subheadings on this page for entries that have already been dealt with, like WT:RFC#sjit? I was wading through some of these out of curiosity's sake and found that some terms have since been deleted, and others now look just fine. Curious, Eiríkr Útlendi | Tala við mig 21:03, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

AFAIK, this page has never been archived before. This then ends up somewhere on my todo list. — Vildricianus 14:41, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

First attempt at archiving

I've made an attempt at archiving. All pre-December 2006 entries that were strikethrough'd, or had been adequately cleaned up, which weren't controversial, have been move to Wiktionary:Requests for cleanup/archive. I may not have done the archving as well as with other pages, but it's a try anyway. Maybe we should write a page Wiktionary:Archiving. --Keene 01:05, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Also, I figured that a year since being posted is a reasonable time to move section to the archives. --Keene 01:07, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Please don't tell me that all the archived sub-sections should be moved to the article talk page. That would be a nasty task --Keene 01:08, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

For cleanup, we don't generally do that, but for RfV, we do. --EncycloPetey 01:14, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Semitic entries

Arabic, Hebrew ...etc. are written in abjad systems. That is, dropping vowels (short vowels in the case of Ar and He). While there are ways to write short vowels in both Ar and He, for most purposes they are done without. Therefore, Arabic and Hebrew users are not likely to search for a word using its full-form (with diacritics that show the vowels). This creates a problem because, for example, a word like ktb in Arabic can be read: katab-kutub-kutib-kitb. With each having a different meaning.

So when searching for ktb in the dictionary it should return all these different words. Up to here all is fine, because the page for arabic ktb lists all these words. But a problem arises when some page in wiktionary links to a vocalized word that already exists in unvocalized form but not in vocalized, which results in a lot of red links. I tried to create two versions for each word (the vocalized and the unvocalized) but users with less knowledge in semitic languages keep tagging them with {{rfc}}. I have also noticed that other entries have suffered the same treatment. Any suggestion on how to solve this issue?.Hakeem.gadi 09:09, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Firstly, could you provide some links to entries you've created that have been tagged with {{rfc}}? If we could see them, we might be able to tell you why — and you might find that the users tagging them don't in fact have "less knowledge in semitic languages".

Secondly, what editors have been doing for Hebrew is so-called pipe-linking, where we link to one form and display another. In English, we use it for capitalization variants; for example, if we wish to link to when in a context where we need to capitalize it, we write [[when|When]] in the wiki markup, which then links to when but displays “When”. So in Hebrew, we've been applying the same principle for vocalized variants; for example, if we wish to linkify the word דִּיבֵּר, most of us write [[דיבר|דִּיבֵּר]] in the wiki markup, though one editor prefers to write [[דיבר|דִּבֵּר]] for grammar reasons. Either way, the result is a link to דיבר. (Note: the Unicode pipe character | is neither right-to-left nor left-to-right, so no matter what script the forms are in, the first form in the wiki-code becomes the link target, and the second becomes the link text. In Hebrew and Arabic, that means right=target and left=text.) It's not a perfect solution, but there doesn't seem to be a better one.

—Ruakh_TALK 12:07, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. First, I would like to clarify that I did not intend to sound demeaning by saying "less knowledge in semitic languages". So I aplologize if this has offended anyone. The entries I created are عَبْد and عبد the first one (a vocalized version) got tagged. Thanks.--Hakeem.gadi 05:48, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Okay, the reason for the tag was formatting. There are two ways to format a page such as عَبْد: with a full complement of headers and definitions (that is, a complete page), or as a redirect (#REDIRECT عبد). I prefer the redirect and have fixed عَبْد to redirect to عبد. —Stephen 08:09, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

archive

Why are there no archive for this page? Maro 18:47, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Everything is archived to the talk page of the entry in question. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 18:48, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

I beseech you, archive this page, I am opening it for 1 and a half minutes! Bogorm 15:01, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

rfc - the full list

Hopefully, here is the full list of entries using {{rfc}}, {{rfc-sense}} or {{rfc-case}}. Unfortunately Microsoft Excel which I used didn't recognize some of these characters, so they've come out as #NAME? (hence useless) but the number of entries is however accurate. Seems that at least half of them aren't listed at all. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:29, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Some of these already have {{rfdef}} or {{defn}} on them. When this is the case, and there isn't another problem, can we remove {{rfc}}? I say yes. rfdef and defn are more specific than rfc. Mglovesfun (talk) 18:57, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

The list

1. ⺗
2. -able
3. -eous
4. -form
5. -gram
6. -icity
7. -ism
8. -istic
9. -ity
10. -ium
11. -ville
12. 0800 number
13. aandeg
14. abduction
15. ABEND
16. abgefahren
17. ability-to-pay
18. abitandoci
19. aboard
20. abominate
21. Aboriginal American
22. absorbent
23. accelerator
24. accidental
25. account
26. aciculite
27. action man
28. active dry yeast
29. additive
30. admin
31. æþryttan
32. Afbachir
33. ageist
34. agente provocatrice
35. agentic
36. aibí
37. Aila
38. ailurophile
39. ain't
40. air mass classification
41. Aki
42. al
43. allegro non troppo
44. allogeneic
45. allomorph
46. alone in a crowd
47. alpha
48. aḻpiri
49. alternate generation
50. am
51. Amazon
52. amend
53. amidst
54. amphitheatrical
55. amuser
56. an offer one can't refuse
57. angels dancing on the head of a pin
58. Angromainyus
59. announce
60. anställd
61. anti-feature
62. anti-story
63. antic
64. antlia
65. any
66. ao
67. Appendix talk:Persian given names
68. Appendix talk:Portuguese given names
69. Appendix:Arabic influence on Spanish
70. Appendix:Dialect-dependent homophones
71. Appendix:English collective nouns
72. Appendix:English terms of Persian origin
73. Appendix:Glossary of bagpipe terms
74. Appendix:Glossary of chess
75. Appendix:Hyper Text Markup Language
76. Appendix:ISO 639-2 language codes
77. Appendix:Palindromic words
78. Appendix:Place names in China
79. Appendix:Programming language terms
80. Appendix:Slovak declension pattern dub
81. Appendix:Slovak declension pattern ulica
82. Appendix:Swadesh lists for interlingua
83. Appendix:Year pronunciation
84. apple juice
85. apt
86. arctic front
87. Arianism
88. around
89. Atena
90. attorney-in-fact
91. auratic
92. auslese
93. authorization
94. autism spectrum disorder
95. Averroist
96. Baal-gad
97. backdraft
98. baitola
99. Báleygr
100. ball
101. ballpark figure
102. Barack
103. bare one's breast
104. bargain
105. bato
106. be born yesterday
107. beacon interval
108. beechen
109. behold
110. belasý
111. beslah
112. black hat
113. blackhole
114. bleed-sheet
115. blooter
116. blue
117. bokep
118. bollocks
119. bon sao
120. bonzer
121. boo
122. boof
123. bottom
124. bourguignonne
125. brameline
126. brass monkey
127. breakthrough pain
128. brogueing
129. bullabessa
130. bum roll
131. bums in seats
132. bur block
133. burden
134. burn
135. burn in hell
136. bus
137. bust a move
138. buttery bar
139. buttload
140. button punch
141. Cablegate
142. cacat
143. cacodaemoniacal
144. cacography
145. cadwch
146. cake-eater
147. California spangled cats
148. call
149. cannelure
150. cannon ball
151. care
152. carrot cruncher
153. Category talk:Ordinal numbers by language
154. Category:100 English basic words
155. Category:Czech plurals
156. Category:Design
157. Category:Drugs
158. Category:Dutch compound words
159. Category:Dutch nouns with incomplete gender
160. Category:English abstract nouns
161. Category:French idioms
162. Category:Geographic abbreviations
163. Category:German words spelled with nonstandard characters
164. Category:ja:Chemical elements
165. Category:Place names
166. Category:United States of America
167. Category:US State Capitals
168. Category:Wiktionary policies
169. cathode
170. CAVOK
171. Cebu
172. Chece
173. cher
174. Chief of Party
175. chigiriki
176. chimney-duty
177. circummeridian
178. Cirih
179. Citations:business girl
180. Citations:cuckold
181. Citations:open sunshine
182. Citations:rainmaker
183. clause
184. cleared hot
185. climacteric
186. club drug
187. cluestick
188. cockatrice
189. college
190. color
191. colter
192. commission de bene esse
193. compacity
194. con
195. concrete
196. cook
197. cooperation
198. Copernican system
199. Cordyceps
200. could one be any more
201. crankcase emission control system
202. crap
203. Creole
204. crowd
205. curly bracket
206. cut
207. cut out
208. cutchery
209. cyflogai
210. damn
211. dang
212. daylight savings time
213. Dc
214. deel uitmaken van
215. demonocracy
216. Deut.
217. dhimmi
218. di-pimethane rearrangement
219. didapper
220. diegesis
221. DILLIGAFF
222. diptych
223. discriminative stimulus
224. diuresis
225. do
226. dolemite
227. donga
228. dote
229. draft
230. drain the swamp when up to one's neck in alligators
231. draught
232. Dravidian
233. drive-by media
234. Drukpa
235. dub
236. duck
237. DVD
238. dyad
239. early grave
240. eat one's young
241. echarse al plato
242. educational technology
243. eeny
244. egg timer
245. electric toothbrush
246. electricity
247. elvish
248. engsel
249. Ephes.
250. epicerastic
251. Eren
252. erupt
253. étisie
254. EVP
255. exempt
256. ext
257. extravolution
258. F2
259. facsimile
260. facticity
261. fade
262. filasse
263. firmenning
264. fool to oneself
265. for the love of
266. fosfor
267. fossility
268. framan af
269. FRB
270. friend with benefits
271. Frisian
272. frosting
273. frottage
274. frugal
275. frugging
276. fujara
277. fully loaded
278. fundoplasty
279. Gan
280. garifuna
281. gehenna
282. generatrix
283. gentoo
284. geography fair
285. Georgie Porgie
286. Gestapo
287. gestor
288. get
289. ghost
290. Giant
291. gismu
292. git
293. give out
294. glamourous
295. gma
296. goddessship
297. golliwog
298. goody two shoes
299. Gorki
300. got it going on
301. Gråen
302. Grand Slam
303. gravitational convection
304. grunnsævi
305. hamster
306. haruspication
307. head
308. headslapper
309. hear both sides
310. heta
311. hey rube
312. Hinata
313. hit the ball twice
314. ho2
315. Hoanguo
316. Hoff
317. holla back
318. honte
319. hors delais
320. host
321. Hristos se rodi
322. hruška
323. Huang Ho
324. hurt locker
325. Hx
326. hypothec
327. idea virus
328. idée mère
329. IM
330. impulsive speech
331. in hand
332. Index:Chinese DAYI
333. Index:Etruscan
334. Inspiration
335. intentionality
336. isomère
337. iwure
338. jack
339. Jack Mormon
340. jamjar
341. Janjaweed
342. Japanification
343. jener
344. jerkwater town
345. job aid
346. joukkuevoimistelu
347. jumping Jesus
348. kaflooey
349. kakie
350. kamboji
351. Kambuja
352. kantaap
353. Kardex
354. kick up
355. knacker
356. koncern
357. koorknaap
358. kurang
359. kyodai
360. l'esprit de l'escalier
361. lampadomancy
362. last legs
363. lazy
364. left arm orthodox
365. left arm unorthodox
366. leg glance
367. leg side
368. lepnin
369. lette
370. Lhermitte sign
371. liberal profession
372. life's not all skittles and beer
373. liking
374. Limburg
375. line and length
376. lippen
377. locked rotor amp
378. Lorentz group
379. loyalty
380. LTM
381. lucis
382. lungeing
383. macro
384. macroenvironment
385. mad cow
386. made
387. mag wheel
388. maker's name
389. Malina
390. mantella
391. maqaf
392. market foreclosure
393. masked
394. massively parallel
395. mathesis
396. mathetics
397. Mayate
398. Mayberry Machiavelli
399. medical tourism
400. medium pace
401. medullas
402. mega-
403. Megiddo
404. merge
405. metaevolution
406. metaphorical extension
407. metencephalon
408. mfG
409. micronalia
410. mirliton
411. misset
412. module
413. moist
414. Moor
415. moose
416. more
417. mpene
418. multilateralist
419. munition
420. mv
421. my condolences
422. mysteriarch
423. naditi
424. nakupenda
425. negro
426. neo-pantheist
427. như thiết như tha, như trác như ma
428. Nicolaitan
429. no slouch
430. noble eightfold path
431. non-word
432. normalization
433. nostri
434. nu metal
435. Nunatukavut
436. occidental
437. off-handed
438. off drive
439. off spin
440. offensive line of scrimmage
441. oibara
442. omavaraisuus
443. OMGWTFBBQ
444. on drive
445. on one's feet
446. oodf
447. op kantoor
448. OR
449. orange
450. oriental
451. Orunmila
452. Oshiro
453. osmium tetroxide
454. osterducken
455. out-of-band
456. outside
457. over de kling jagen
458. p.s.
459. P.S.
460. paganry
461. Paleocene
462. Pama-Nyungan
463. paradigm
464. park
465. parson
466. pass by
467. passion pop
468. perichoresis
469. Peripatetic
470. pET plasmid
471. Phalaenopsis amabilis
472. phlogiston theory
473. phys-
474. picket pool
475. picture framing
476. pinard
477. pinyin
478. pirie
479. pole
480. Pollyanish
481. possibly
482. post scriptum
483. postdigital
484. postscript
485. postscriptum
486. predictive coding
487. přívlastek
488. proceed
489. produce
490. program
491. PS
492. pseudomacedonism
493. Ptah
494. punch
495. Purana
496. putain de merde
497. PVP
498. pyramidic
499. qex
500. QID
501. qua
502. quasi-
503. quejar
504. quid pro quo
505. quotient
506. rad
507. reason
508. rebolusyon
509. red book
510. reed instrument
511. reëxamine
512. reganal
513. regida
514. rein
515. represent
516. rescue
517. respire
518. reverse the charge
519. rhubarb
520. Rhymes:English:-ɪljən
521. Richelieu
522. risk appetite
523. risk tolerance
524. RNTM
525. ronko
526. rooinek
527. Rosselló
528. Rt. Revd.
529. rude
530. Rumplenacht
531. ryšavec
532. ryšiak
533. s
534. sa
535. Salafi Christian
536. sannu
537. sapota
538. Sasang typology
539. satellite navigation system
540. Satnami
541. scél
542. schaffen
543. scissors crossover
544. scoot
545. scotochromogenic
546. screw over
547. scrub
548. séant
549. second-
550. seisin
551. Serb
552. Sermon on the Mount
553. serve
554. sewadar
555. sex life
556. sexual slavery
557. shallow copy
558. shazaam
559. shimada
560. shoot oneself in the foot
561. shop
562. shorty
563. shtup
564. sich
565. sicker
566. silent barter
567. Silicone Valley
568. sımarlamaq
569. sine
570. sing like a bird
571. Sinhalese
572. SIPRNET
573. size matters
574. skin up
575. skollie
576. slangrill
577. Slavicism
578. sleep under the same bridge
579. so
580. social profile
581. sociopathy
582. sodium alum
583. somebody's
584. sommer
585. spanky pants
586. spijten
587. spiritual naturalism
588. spiritually
589. spryte
590. spur on
591. stafssetningarvillur
592. stand
593. star chamber
594. Starfighter
595. stathle
596. statist
597. steroisomeric
598. stoppage time
599. stroke
600. substantia nigra
601. subuh
602. sudaca
603. summa cum laude
604. survival of the fittest
605. sword
606. syntagma
607. tabbies
608. taittuvateräinen
609. take up
610. Talk:loose
611. Talk:mullet
612. Talk:Stancel
613. tallo
614. tapeless workflow
615. tavern
616. TCB
617. teater
618. technological singularity
619. TelePrompTer
620. Template talk:audio
621. Template talk:en-categoryTOC
622. Template talk:eo-conj
623. Template:cy-letter
624. Template:cy-letter/doc
625. Template:de-proper noun
626. Template:en-phrase
627. Template:Fallbeyging2
628. Template:fornöfn
629. Template:list:tech/en
630. Template:ml-decl-noun
631. Template:rfc
632. Template:rfc-case
633. Template:rfc/doc
634. Template:User arc-1
635. Template:User chr
636. Template:User chr-3
637. Template:User sga-1
638. Template:User xcl-2
639. Template:who vs. whom
640. Template:yo-letter
641. Template:yo-letter/doc
642. tepezcuintle
643. thallane
644. Thebaic
645. thousand one
646. time
647. tit for tat
648. Tom
649. top
650. torr
651. tort
652. tough luck
653. trac
654. trần
655. trans
656. transmittant
657. transpose
658. Transwiki:Mirliton
659. Transwiki:Multilingual list of Indian family relation names
660. Transwiki:Multilingual list of Indian plants trees and flowers
661. trick-or-treat
662. trot
663. trunnion
664. tsubo
665. tua
666. tuga
667. turn up one's nose
668. two-spirit
669. two dimensional universe
670. ừ
671. Ugandan affairs
672. Ukonu
673. umount
674. undercast
675. unition
676. unloved
677. unsolve
678. up front
679. User:Connel MacKenzie/lead2
680. User:Index/LIS
681. V.O.F.
682. vagrant
683. value system
684. vaso
685. velopharyngeal
686. Verfügung
687. versificator
688. VFD
689. viddy
690. video conference
691. villain
692. Visitor
693. visual arts
694. vitam impendere vero
695. vocal
696. vodit
697. voorleser
698. vy
699. washlet
700. water to my mill
701. weird
702. West Frisian
703. wetware
704. wheel of Fortune
705. who
706. whoever
707. whomever
708. wi-fi array
709. wikify
710. Wikisaurus:badness
711. Wikisaurus:judgement
712. Wikisaurus:magician
713. Wikisaurus:money
714. Wikisaurus:speedy
715. Wiktionary talk:Topics
716. Wiktionary:Index to templates
717. Wiktionary:IPA pronunciation key
718. Wiktionary:Languages with more than one grammatical gender
719. Wiktionary:Maintenance templates
720. Wiktionary:Requests for cleanup
721. windup
722. wine
723. with the spin
724. withing
725. Wohl
726. worse comes to worst
727. Xenophanes
728. yaar
729. yahoo
730. yarray
731. Yassa
732. your honour
733. youse
734. zak
735. zhengzifa
736. zhengzifa ci
737. zhengzifa cidian
738. Zograf
739. zoning
740. zu haben
741. ταυροκαθάψια
742. изветрити
743. луфтирати
744. отруєння
745. пиже
746. сур'ёзны
747. трп
748. Хоангуо
749. Хуанг Хо
750. זאת
751. סיבה
752. الصمد
753. بحسب
754. ثم
755. جُزَڻُ
756. جهد
757. دحاها
758. سلمي
759. صمد
760. علق
761. فلك
762. كنيسة
763. مسلمين
764. مضغ
765. مضغة
766. نانکلی
767. ولادة
768. يجري
769. يسبحون
770. হাঁ
771. ซ้าย
772. かなりしてください
773. じゃんけん
774. ﾓｴ
775. ㄋ
776. 갂
777. 옆
778. 입
779. 共産
780. 凄い
781. 差
782. 拳术
783. 拼
784. 活発
785. 深刻
786. 珍多冰
787. 理智
788. 純
789. 見積書
790. 達
791. 鹿
792. 黃
793. 黄砂

Archives to subpages

A lot of the discussions that have been archived to subpages have either been struck or are deleted entries. Surely these should be archived to the entry talk page and the template removed. They were ignored and festered while they were on the main project page. Shoving them in a sub-page has pretty much guaranteed they will be ignored forever. SpinningSpark 23:47, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

If you want to move them to the entries' talk pages, that'd be great! I just archive them to a central location because it's less time consuming, and I have a limited amount of time. - -sche (discuss) 23:49, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Is there a template to wrap discussions moved to talk pages? SpinningSpark 01:41, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

{{rfc-archived}}, which works like this. :) - -sche (discuss) 01:50, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

By the way, that's for entries which are in the actual archives, or which are in the list of "unresolved requests" despite having been resolved (by being cleaned up or deleted). Entries which are in the lists of unresolved requests and which still have problems that need to be cleaned up should in theory not be de-tagged. I only moved them off the main page because otherwise the main page would be so large that people couldn't view or edit it. - -sche (discuss) 01:56, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Ok, got it, I'll thin them out a bit when I have some time. SpinningSpark 11:26, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Untagging tagged, unlisted terms when the reason for the tag cannot be determined

I propose that when a term has been tagged but never listed and no particular reason for the tag can be found, either in the tag itself, in the edit summary (of the edit which added the tag), or from the editor who tagged it, the term should simply be untagged rather than listed. As an example, EncycloPetey tagged Baal-gad for cleanup in 2010 without giving any explicit instruction in the tag or in their edit summary. I have asked them about the reason for the tag (recognizing it is from decades past), and have not yet received a response. Unless they do respond and are opposed to its removal, I think it is only reasonable to untag the term. — excarnateSojourner (talk · contrib) 01:07, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

I must have missed the original query. I expect that my tag referred to the cryptic etymology that was on the page at the time, but which has sense been filled out. --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:50, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

• Ok, thanks. — excarnateSojourner (talk · contrib) 03:07, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

  @ExcarnateSojourner: I agree with your general proposition. — Sgconlaw (talk) 14:37, 29 November 2022 (UTC)