Wikipedia talk:Simple English Dictionary
From Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia written in simple English for easy reading.
What is the idea behind this page, anyone? Saintswithin 13:37, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
It is an attempt to list and define or image the constrained vocabulary of approximately 2,000 or 3,000 words to be used in the Simple English Wikipedia. When writing in Simple English, check to see if your words are here. If not, try to simplify further, otherwise add the words.
The contents of this page is being migrated to the Simple Wiktionary. See http://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/A for an example. Brian Merz 25 Jan 05.
- The word list contents have been moved to Simple English Wiktionary. A deletion request was made (by me), with a mixed reaction. Netoholic chose to keep it (I may be mistaken in my feeling that this was following his own opinion over consensus). One editor mentioned that the lists at the top of the article are useful and should be moved, but the rest should be deleted. Once I have (or someone else has) done so, I will again nominate it for deletion. --Cromwellt|talk 00:05, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
- I have copied all relevant information (including abbreviations, sources, and external links) to Wikipedia:Word list abbreviations. As mentioned above, I will now again request its deletion. This is for five reasons: 1) There is nothing here of value which is not somewhere else more appropriate; 2) it has been four months since the previous nomination for deletion (plenty of time for things to change); 3) the Simple English Wiktionary is well on its way and has taken over the functions of this page; 4) consensus states that we should link to the Simple English Wiktionary, which basically makes this list obsolete; and 5) the list has not grown or even been modified since 04:29, 23 December 2005 (not counting vandalism or the deletion tag addition and removal), not even during or after the discussion on RfD. If someone who voted keep had started adding to the list, I could imagine it becoming useful someday, but since no one has, this shows that the page is not going anywhere, and it is useless in its current form. As mentioned earlier, it has also been superseded by Simple English Wiktionary. It was an idea that was started but never got very far, and then another idea took its place. I think we should put it out of its misery. --Cromwellt|talk|contris 06:03, 26 May 2006 (UTC)