Wiktionary talk:Todo/bolded spaces in single-word entries

Purpose
It would be helpful to explain the following in the intro at the top of the page: Pinging @DCDuring as the only editor to persistently manage the page a decade ago. - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 04:45, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) Are bolded spaces to be removed where they exist?
 * 2) Assuming bolded spaces are to be avoided, why? Are there bad patterns in which they tend to appear?
 * I don't remember. As Bequw was a technical adept, I assume that there was some technical reason why the bolded spaces were bad. I don't even know for sure how to manually determine whether the offending spaces or formatting are still present. We could ask a still-active adept whether they had any thoughts on its use or lack thereof or just RFDO it. DCDuring (talk) 17:31, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Lol. Ok, thank you. - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 02:04, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
 * @DCDuring Who would be a good still-active adept to ask? - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 00:55, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Maybe User:Erutuon or User:Benwing2. DCDuring (talk) 18:25, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * I have zero idea why there is any issue with having spaces in bold text in the page when the title doesn't have a space. Possibly the idea was to find places where the headword had extra words in it and didn't match the title (when headwords were still formatted manually), which are possibly bad, but if so there are better ways to go about this. This page is completely out-of-date in any case and I had a hard time even finding examples where the specified text was still on the page. One example is augusztusban where the bolded text is "in August" inside of a usex -- totally reasonable. I would recommend deleting this page. Benwing2 (talk) 03:35, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Maybe someone will come up with a reason when it is put up on RFDO. DCDuring (talk) 15:56, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

RFD discussion: November 2022–August 2023
Page created by User:Bequw (last edit 2018) long ago.

No discussion found of the need for the page.

No one has yet identified a need for the page. DCDuring (talk) 17:15, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. When the page was originally created, Bequw "could be an error", so I assume this was actually because it might indicate a user mistake rather than technical reasons. I don't think it's actually particularly likely to indicate a user mistake, though, since e.g. certain English entries seem to have "the " in the head and not the title quite frequently by design. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 18:14, 13 November 2022 (UTC)


 * tagged the page for speedy deletion just before this discussion started, so I have replaced the with . - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 20:54, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. I hate voting to destroy someone's hard work, but having looked through the history of the page, I'm certain that this list was generated entirely by a script (see for example how it sometimes repeats the same phrase over and over if it occurs over and over on the page). Therefore, if we should later change our minds and decide to restart the project, the best way forward would be to contact the original author and then run the script again. That way, we'll have a fresh wordlist to work with that will be much more fruitful for our labors.  In the meantime, deleting the list will save other people the trouble in case someone stumbles across it thinking it's an urgent problem. — Soap — 11:46, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
 * As DCDuring mentioned, the original author's last edit was in 2018, so it seems unlikely they would respond. - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 04:57, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

RFD-deleted. I suspect the intent was to detect entries where there was inappropriate bolding of text for whatever reason, but the list is well outdated and most entries look to have either been fixed or are false positives by now. This, that and the other (talk) 12:17, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 04:59, 16 November 2022 (UTC)