Talk:Hippology

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~~Is it just youth that compete in Hippology?~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Traci.alexander (talk • contribs) 23:28, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Requested move 28 March 2021

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) -- Calidum 02:03, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

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Hippology → Study of horses – This term is very confusing; per simply looking at the word it's much easier to guess it means the study of hippopotamuses. Important note: please do not determine your support/oppose vote as if this were a proposed move to "horsology". Georgia guy (talk) 01:47, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose unless an argument is made (and supported) that "hippology" isn't the common name for it. This seems unlikely given that, as the article explains, it's a common, established name for this discipline. As for confusion, regardless of what someone might have guessed if they didn't come to look it up in an encyclopedia, their misconception vanishes the instant they start reading the article, so where's there a problem? In addition, the article establishes that hippology goes well beyond what one would assume from the phrase "study of horses". Largoplazo (talk) 12:27, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
• Neigh Lots of scientific terms are confusing, and that's why they are (or should be) explained in the lead of the article, rather than the article title being dumb-downed. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 13:35, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

  Lugnuts, can you name an article with a title that's an example of what you said?? Georgia guy (talk) 13:51, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Yes. Yes I can. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 14:11, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

And what article (besides this one) is there?? Georgia guy (talk) 14:11, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Pandemic isn't about pandas, neither Neontology nor Neonatology is about neon, Logotherapy has nothing to do with any of three things that somebody could imagine it to mean from the first three or four letters (logs, words, or studies), and neither Penology nor Penistone is about penises. In addition, one could argue that Hippopotamus is badly named because its prefix, to somebody who knows what the prefix "hippo-" means, might expect that article to be about horses. Largoplazo (talk) 16:33, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

In your neon examples; all 3 words are derived from a Greek word meaning new; they're just different words with different meanings but the same root. Georgia guy (talk) 16:37, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Which doesn't reduce the relevance of them in the slightest: prefixes that could lead somebody to think before reading the articles about them that they meant something other than what they mean. Largoplazo (talk) 16:38, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

Well done, Largoplazo. — BarrelProof (talk) 02:33, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose. A GScholar search suggests that the term is common enough. Srnec (talk) 18:21, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

  ...and not at all confusing to most people?? Georgia guy (talk) 18:23, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

  You won't believe what rhinoviruses infect. Srnec (talk) 18:28, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

  Its name means nose virus, but how is it related to hippology?? Georgia guy (talk) 18:32, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

  Were you or were you not thoroughly confused by the fact that rhinovirus has nothing to do with rhinos? If you were confused, didn't your confusion vanish the instant you read the first paragraph of that article? If you weren't confused, then why would anybody be confused by "hippology"? Largoplazo (talk) 23:12, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

  Both rhinovirus (nose virus) and rhinoceros (nose horn) have the same prefix (rhino- meaning nose,) but they are different words and have nothing to do with each other. A rhinoceros is named after the fact that it has a nose horn. Georgia guy (talk) 23:27, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

  Both hippology (horse field of study) and hippopotamus (horse of the river) have the same prefix (hippo- meaning horse), but they are different words and have nothing to do with each other. A hippopotamus is named after the likening of it to the river version of a horse. Largoplazo (talk) 02:01, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

  It's starting to occur to me that maybe this whole thing began and the reason our analogies aren't shedding any light for you is because you had no idea that the "hippo-" part of "hippopotamus" means "horse". Largoplazo (talk) 02:05, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

  Well, again: The whole point is that this is an encyclopedia article explaining exactly what it is, so what confusion are you talking about? Largoplazo (talk) 23:13, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

  It's a big surprise that nobody responds to this word by asking "Now what is the study of hippopotamuses called??" Georgia guy (talk) 23:28, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

  Do people respond to the the article on rhinoviruses by asking "Now what is the study of rhinoceros viruses called?"? Is that the job of the rhinovirus article? Would moving the rhinovirus article to Nose viruses somehow inform people what rhinoceros viruses are called? Largoplazo (talk) 02:01, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose. No need to dumb down here. Especially since the 'hippo' element of hippopotamus means 'horse'! Could this maybe be an early April fool? -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:21, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

  Not even close. It's a word I stumbled across in Wikipedia and I'm surprised that nobody complains about the fact that the word does not mean the study of hippopotamuses; that's what it seriously looks as if it means because "hippopotamus" is a word that enters a child's vocabulary much earlier than any other word with the hippo- prefix. Georgia guy (talk) 13:26, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

  You do know that this is an encyclopaedia? Its whole purpose is to explain things. You've now learnt that hippology is not the study of hippopotamuses, whatever it may look like. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:08, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.