Talk:Hippocampus (mythology)

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I have cleaned away links that are irrelevant to the subject at hand, which is Hippocamp. I hope that won't seem too disciplined. Not every noun in a text need be blue-linked, simply to emphasize words. If we think of the Wikipedia reader, who needs to pick out the relevant links, or ones that will explain terms, we'll sense that "tree" and "sea" and "bronze" don't need linking here, interesting as each phenomenon may be. --Wetman 14:42, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

• What to link is always a judgement call. If I went too far on the matter, I don't object to you pulling in the reigns and appreciate your politeness regarding it. I am just glad you aren't one of those people who freak out when they discover someone had touched their shiny new article while their backs were turned. I hope you like the expansion and the new pictures -- I have a quirky fondness for line-drawings and such with white back grounds that look good on a white background without thumbnailing them (another example from today).

• Mer-horse is used in the Harry Potter books; I'm not much of a fan, but they are significant works especially for younger people. I have great respect for the OED and its description of it as a nonce word is accurate, but I am unsure that should exclude it from the article. Nonce or not, it's used a fair amount ( example 1 example 2). I think we should strive to be descriptive rather than prescriptive as long as we don't go so far that we're just irrelevant or inaccurate. As such, I suggest we re-insert mer-horse with the following end note:

While Oxford English Dictionary describes mer-horse as a nonce word, it is used in the Harry Potter books and elsewhere.

Think that would be okay? While not used in the strict terminology of blazoning, mer-horse (as well as mer-lion, etc.) is also used in many heraldry guides as the quickest way to explain the charges. I'll leave it up to you. House of Scandal 16:59, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

• • OED having described "mer-horse" as a nonce-word, a list of nonces, though familiarly Wikipedian, might be fatuous. --Wetman 10:29, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
• I was just reading your user page and chortled to think "legend states the mer-horse is..." House of Scandal 17:01, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Oh dear oh dear: cliché and ossified thought are always right at one's elbow, ready to creep into one's writing whenever one dozes off at the keyboard. --Wetman 10:27, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Should it be mentioned that the Peophin (Neopets) looks a hippocampus or a derivation of it? 76.104.152.214 (talk) 03:31, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Hippocamp Plural

I have noticed that the text uses noth "hippocamps" and "hippocampi" as plural form interchangeably. Although both are correct, I suggest deciding on one form as to not confuse the reader. Plus, one could take "hippocampoi" to be correct also, from "ἱπποκαμποι", the correct Greek plural. Wethertisnobler (talk) 20:46, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Requested move 09 March 2014

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The result of the move request was: moved per request. Favonian (talk) 21:32, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

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Hippocamp → Hippocampus (mythology) – Hippocampus seems to be the most used word by far, and even the citations used in this article use hippocampus. The target was moved here in 2006, but the discussion seems to be nonexistent. Lewis Hulbert (talk) 13:50, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

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• Support Sounds reasonable. I don't think I've ever heard this term. --BDD (talk) 17:30, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Hippocampus is definitely the WP:COMMONNAME. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:45, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
• Support. The -us suffix is certainly the common name. Move in 2006 was ill-advised. Xoloz (talk) 16:45, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

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its big 3m — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.249.178.107 (talk) 11:23, 6 December 2021 (UTC)