Talk:Unsupported titles/Colon slash slash

RFD discussion: October 2016–January 2017
"A delimiter used after the protocol in URLs" (as in http://). Not human language. I can't even begin to imagine anyone picking this out of a URL as a specific element and looking it up in a dictionary to see what it means. Equinox ◑ 12:51, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep Delete but add a new sense at "" meaning "protocol delimiter", for the same reasons we keep "@" as:
 * The symbol used as a separator between a username and a domain name in an e-mail address ("at" the domain name).
 * My e-mail address is psychonaut@example.com.
 * There are people who are not aware of how URLs work and may wonder why they have a colon and two slashes at the beginning. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 12:55, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * There are people who wonder what happens if you mix ammonia and bleach (don't try it!), but we don't need to include that in a dictionary either. Chuck Entz (talk) 16:02, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * That was funny. I agree that what happens if you mix ammonia and bleach is not dictionary material. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 16:15, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * delete, the definition is actually completely wrong. The delimiter (after the protocol name) would be just the colon, the double slashes that come after that start a URI path. As such it is possible to have links in webpages that start with // and the browser will automatically fill in http: or https: depending on whether you're currently using a secure connection or not. -- Pedrianaplant (talk) 13:36, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the input. We have a related networking sense at // which could be further edited with that information. The entry does not have the "protocol delimiter" sense... I'm not willing to add it now, because the inclusion of computing symbols is under discussion, but it can be added eventually if people agree. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 13:44, 9 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete. In addition to what Pedrianaplant said above, this is not used in human language. --WikiTiki89 13:43, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * "Human language" as opposed to what? URLs are for people to read and use. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 14:00, 9 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Not primarily. Humans do not instinctively think in phone numbers or URLs; we have to mentally map "Bob's new mobile number" or "the address of that funny blog" to a phone number or URL in order to use a system, to which that format is native. Equinox ◑ 14:05, 9 October 2016 (UTC)


 * We have ‒ ("figure dash") defined as "Used to separate digits in telephone numbers." Admittedly, I'm partially responsible for that definition -- I believe the entry did not make a lot of sense before I edited it. Feel free to see the history for yourself. You mentioned telephone numbers. Is the figure dash definition not acceptable? --Daniel Carrero (talk) 14:18, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I too was going to use the example of phone numbers. Phone numbers are for people to read, right? Are they words or idioms? Do we want entries for all attestable phone numbers? Renard Migrant (talk) 15:42, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Maybe we're not on the same page. Creating entries for phone numbers feels like creating entries for specific website URLs. The way I see it, a phone number like 555-1234 could be interpreted as simlply a SOP of 5 5 5 - 1 2 3 4. The figure dash (‒) appears to be used in telephone numbers, and personally I would expect that dash to be kept as an entry. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 15:53, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Well what about pictures? Pictures can convey information, shall we include those too? Renard Migrant (talk) 17:26, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
 * In User talk:Equinox, I discussed some of my opinions concerning emoji and pictographs. I support deleting most of our emoji entries that only have the Unicode codepoint name as their definition. I support keeping those that are correctly attested in running text. Either way, they are not the same as URL delimiters. --Daniel Carrero (talk) 18:05, 9 October 2016 (UTC)


 * The :// is actually composed of : (protocol delimiter) and // (network root symbol) and they just come together in URLs. As sometimes you can see :\\ (backslashes) either. --Octahedron80 (talk) 14:10, 9 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom: Not human language. --Dan Polansky (talk) 17:02, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete: it is just the protocol delimiter (Unsupported titles/Colon) and the network root (//). — T AKASUGI Shinji (talk) 04:11, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Deleted. bd2412 T 18:32, 10 January 2017 (UTC)