Talk:background knowledge

background knowledge
I don't know if this is a neologism or not, but can someone verify it? - Lo Ximiendo 20:48, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
 * As there is no entry there is nothing to either clean up (what this page and are for) or verify (See WT:Attestation. DCDuring TALK  22:27, 14 December 2010 (UTC)


 * From Wordnet--Noun 1. background knowledge - information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem. It is certainly an established term. Leasnam 22:32, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
 * It is clearly not an English idiom. WordNet is a semantic network, not a dictionary. Dictionaries are about lexical units, not conceptual units.
 * A straight vote on the question of which nonidiomatic English terms are worth including would be fine with me. Instead we have various items that are whimsically suggested as being worthy of inclusion even though they conform to no standard for inclusion. If we have some standard that is removed, there is neither a replacement, nor an effort to systematically populate the class allowed. We can't even get a serious effort at a Phrasebook. Instead we get fictional-universe terms. DCDuring TALK 23:22, 14 December 2010 (UTC)