Talk:▶/⏸

RFD discussion: November–December 2016
WTF Equinox ◑ 06:36, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

SOP perhaps. PS. Some radios can play a cassette both directions. --Octahedron80 (talk) 07:40, 11 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Yes, autoreverse. I should have nominated this properly as SoP: a slash means "or", and we have probably all seen devices with a switch that says "ON/OFF"; this seems comparable. P.S. Listen to this excellent set Equinox ◑ 03:50, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * IMO, you have good taste in music. Also, I agree with the comparison with "ON/OFF". If we kept ▶/⏸, we would probably have a precedent to create 1 ! too, because there's a single button for 1 and ! too on a keyboard; we don't create 1 ! because it would be a SOP of 1 and !, like the discussed entry is a SOP of ▶ and ⏸. (that said, I'd like to think that ⭾ is probably an exception and can be kept normally, assuming that many people consider it a "single unit" as opposed to a SOP of ⇥ and ⇤) --Daniel Carrero (talk) 04:21, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Ditto on the music. Is it normally our policy to allow entries for symbols that appear only on keyboards, etc. rather than in running text? It doesn't feel to me like it's an actual unit of language, though I'm not really opposed to having it (I supported adding Morse Code after all). Andrew Sheedy (talk) 05:31, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Sometimes, I try to search Google Books for citations of symbols in running text like "Press ▶ to play." The entries 💾, 🗗, 💡 contain a few citations in running text. (I added +2 quotes to ▶ now, too) I tried to find citations in running text for ⭾ too, but I failed. But 🛇 is different: it contains one "citation" from a cartoon movie that uses the symbol not in running text, but complementing the character lines nonetheless. I can't speak for others, but instead of running text, I'd be satisfied with, for example: 1) citing ▶ (a media symbol) with printed diagrams of media devices and/or screenshots of media software; 2) citing ⛅ (a weather symbol) from printed weather reports; 3) citing ⛽ (a map symbol) from printed maps. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 06:22, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete with extreme prejudice! It's not "all buttons in all systems". Chuck Entz (talk) 08:17, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. Completely SOP. — Andrew Sheedy (talk) 01:42, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * SoP? How do you work that one out? DonnanZ (talk) 17:19, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * It's just ▶ + / + ⏸. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 17:33, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Deleted --Daniel Carrero (talk) 04:33, 4 December 2016 (UTC)