Template talk:antonym of

RFDO discussion: October 2016–February 2017
Really bad practice. Although we do have I think this is a much different case as antonymy is a very imprecise and subjective concept. --Dixtosa (talk) 20:11, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete, yes, awful, if it were used (and it isn't) it should be replaced with a definition . Definitions, remember those? Renard Migrant (talk) 20:22, 25 October 2016 (UTC)


 * It doesn't even seem to be in use. Delete. Equinox ◑ 20:23, 25 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete. Like Dixtosa said, antonymy is very imprecise and subjective. Consider, for example, that an antonym of X can be “anything that is not X”, “the diametric opposite of X” or “something that differs from X in a characteristic that defines X”, such that words like, and  could be defined as  despite being different things.
 * Not that I think that this template would be used in the definition of basic words, but for the sake of clarity, I think that even trivial definitions, such as that of most words prefixed with  or, should be given a manual definition rather than a templated one. — Ungoliant (falai) 20:36, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
 * I find unqualified anyonyms really frustrating, like boy/girl. If you put I think that's fine, but putting 'boy' as an antonym of 'girl' with no qualification is just misleading IMO. Renard Migrant (talk) 14:06, 26 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete per Ungoliant. - -sche (discuss) 21:38, 25 October 2016 (UTC)


 * Antonym of keep. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 22:13, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Release? —CodeCat 22:28, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Bailey? Chuck Entz (talk) 03:23, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not used anywhere. I guess it could be used in non-white as "antonym of white", but we have complementary antonyms ("not white") and polar antonyms ("the opposite of white, black"), and the reader would have to figure out that we mean the complementary one; better say "Not white" and be done with it. I am not very happy about use of synonym of either. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:07, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Essentially synonym of can be replaced by a wiki link evey time; is the same as Joyful. But I think on discussion people felt that wasn't enough of a reason to delete it. It has been nominated before. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:19, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
 * That only works for English. For non-English terms, some of which can have multiple rather complicated and specific definitions not easily summarised by one English term, it's convenient to just say "look here for the definition". It works around the fact that we can't define terms in languages other than English. —CodeCat 16:32, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Good point. Renard Migrant (talk) 15:25, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Deleted.__Gamren (talk) 12:10, 13 February 2017 (UTC)

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