Talk:nothing's

RFD discussion: April–May 2019
SOP, nothing + -'s. Ultimateria (talk) 17:26, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Mihia (talk) 23:48, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Chignon – Пучок 09:49, 17 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Do we have any policy/guideline on this? Should we draft one? We forbid almost all possessive apostrophe forms, but when it comes to contractions we have a bunch, especially with pronouns (he's, she's, you'd've, etc). I raised this in the BP is December. - -sche (discuss) 21:19, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
 * It's a point. We also have e.g. something's and someone's but not e.g. no one's or everyone's. I'm not sure if there is any logic to this, or if it is just a random result of what people have added. Mihia (talk) 00:06, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I think it is indeed just a random result of what different people assumed was includable, partly due to the lack of a guideline covering such cases. Part of the problem is the idea that if – due to some quirk of orthography – there is no space in between, it’s all one word, so it cannot be a sum of parts. According to that logic, (2345) is one word, so with three attestations it becomes includable, as are thousands of other German numerals.  --Lambiam 07:12, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Well, we kept Talk:neuntausendneunhundertneunundneunzig, though I wonder if some of these are now covered by numeral-specific rules. - -sche (discuss) 19:50, 5 May 2019 (UTC)


 * I think we can keep it. It reminds me of . DonnanZ (talk) 08:55, 21 April 2019 (UTC)


 * I would tentatively say delete this and others that are just a noun + 's (and probably most other parts of speech + 's, including e.g. [[poor's]] as in "the rich man's relaxing, the poor's toiling away"). I would keep most or all contractions that start with pronouns. Obviously idioms like "fair's fair" would stay; compare how even our voted-on exclusion of possessives doesn't stop "butcher's" from existing because it has an idiomatic sense in rhyming slang. I think we should formulate a policy/guideline about this; I will try to put something together in the BP later. - -sche (discuss) 19:50, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - TheDaveRoss  13:06, 23 May 2019 (UTC)


 * RFD deleted. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 15:58, 25 May 2019 (UTC)