Talk:Parliament

Parliament
There is an almost unlimited number of parliaments around the world, both at federal and state levels. Why should we spell them all out - isn't that for an encyclopedia is for? ---&gt; Tooironic 00:46, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
 * If it is actually used as such (i. e. capitalized) I don't see why not. But that is more a question for RfV. -- Prince Kassad 01:27, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't see that we could possibly delete the entry. I think we can only delete an individual sense if it is not attestable under our current rules. I think this problem arise from treating such proper nouns as if they merited encyclopedic senses. IMO, a wiser approach would be to treat such an entry the same way that we treat given names and surnames. DCDuring TALK 01:53, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
 * See World Cup, I'd take that approach. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:34, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
 * But the World Cup entry seems wrong. "World Cup" is an unofficial proper name. It is not a common noun any more than any of the uses of "Springfield". DCDuring TALK 12:03, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Obviously WP covers the various entities with the name or nickname "Parliament" much better than we do. Their list of entities at Parliament (disambiguation) and of individual parliaments at Parliament, thought not complete, seems adequate. DCDuring TALK 12:19, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
 * delete. But not because it would be encyclopedic. The word is capitalized to mean the parliament of the State. Isn't this rule a general rule for the use of capitals, applicable to all words, when meaningful (e.g. in the Capital)? Capitals have several meanings, several standard uses (e.g. beginning of a sentence, newpapers titles, taxa, etc.), this is one of them (but the State page is justified by a different meaning). Lmaltier 21:51, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Are you saying that nicknames of entities are sometimes not themselves proper names? Or that only official names are true proper nouns? DCDuring TALK 00:01, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
 * No, not at all. Parliament is not a nickname. The reason is that parliament is a normal noun, and that nouns may be capitalized in some standard cases, which does not make them different nouns, just for the same reason we don't create You as a page: this is a standard use of capitals. Lmaltier 06:42, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Merge senses and modify the definition to be more general. --Yair rand (talk) 07:20, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

rewritten, I hope it is OK like this. -- Liliana • 14:18, 18 October 2011 (UTC)