Talk:Misnomer/Archives/2012/April
Latest comment: 12 years ago by Fayenatic london in topic Category:Misnomers
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"Extremely exhaustive"
Exhaustive means something that can run out (something that is not infinite). However, "extremely exhaustive" refers to a huge catalogue or list; something that can run out, but will not easily. However a non-english speaker would assume "extremely exhaustive" means "runs out easily/quickly". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.97.32.106 (talk) 23:25, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
- This is the English Wikipedia, intended for English speakers. Additionally, "exhaustive" means "including every possible element". Cresix (talk) 16:25, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
Category:Misnomers
I am nominating this category for deletion. In case (i) this goes ahead and (ii) it contains any examples that could usefully be listed in this article, the current contents are:
- Brick and mortar
- Djun djun
- Hangnail
- iPhone Touch
- List of misnamed theorems
- Patrick of Avernia
- Radio edit
- Tin foil
- Welsh onion
– Fayenatic L (talk) 14:39, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
- I have no opinion about whether the category should be deleted. But please note that by consensus, no new examples are to be added to the article without first achieving consensus here. A serious problem with this article in the past is that lots of people decided to add their favorite example, most of which were not even misnomers, resulting in an overbloated article full of crap. Some of the items above were were removed for that reason, and some are not even misnomers. If the category is deleted, so be it; but please keep these examples out of the article. Cresix (talk) 14:49, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
- Fine by me. The CFD discussion is here. – Fayenatic L (talk) 15:02, 15 April 2012 (UTC)