Talk:wikipedia

RFD discussion: October 2016
This has been deleted a few times, but at Wikipedia it is listed as an alternate form of "Wikipedia". Therefore this should be undeleted, and created as a alternative form of for Wikipedia. That would also solve the problem of any other project linking to the lowercase form on Wiktionary.

--- 65.94.171.217 03:25, 3 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Agreed. If I were not at school forced to use my IPhone's data, I'd recreate the entry myself. PseudoSkull (talk) 18:45, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
 * "wikipedia" is a capitalisation error, isn't it? I don't think it should be given legitimacy as an alternative form. Mihia (talk) 20:51, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Remove as a link from Wikipedia as an error not an alternative form. Wikipedia isn't a common noun under any capitalization, it's a countable proper noun like Pepsi or Nissan. Renard Migrant (talk) 21:25, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
 * English: n. A wiki or similar collaborative database.
 * wouldn't the sense for a generic wiki-based online encyclopedia use "wikipedia" in the lower case form? -- 65.94.171.217 11:51, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I don't think so. As far I am aware, "Wikipedia" or (wrong) "wikipedia" always means *.wikipedia.org, not any old wiki-based encyclopedia. Mihia (talk) 18:05, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * The sense is already attested in the entry Wikipedia, so if you don't think so, you should RFV the sense (I verbatim copied the definition here and placed it light blue) -- 65.94.171.217 05:14, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
 * All those cited examples seem to me to be talking about something like Wikipedia. I do not believe that they are true generic uses. Mihia (talk) 13:46, 6 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep (undelete). There are lots of hits on Google Ngram. SemperBlotto (talk) 06:35, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Any citations from CFI-compliant sources? —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 06:43, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * An annoying feature of Google Ngram is that you can't click on a year and see the actual instances. SemperBlotto (talk) 06:48, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
 * You should be able to specify (say, for example) from 2006 to 2006 on Google Books. Renard Migrant (talk) 13:21, 4 October 2016 (UTC)


 * There is no reason for an undeletion discussion. This entry has never existed as anything other than vandalism. Just create the entry. --WikiTiki89 14:44, 6 October 2016 (UTC)