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, 09:40, January 7, 2008Etymologies and the like
::I guess that makes sense. :) Thanks for the reply! --[[User:JakeC|JakeC]] 22:51, 28 December 2007 (EST)
::I guess that makes sense. :) Thanks for the reply! --[[User:JakeC|JakeC]] 22:51, 28 December 2007 (EST)
== Etymologies and the like ==
I was looking at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrenees Pyrenees] on Wikipedia recently, and had to wade through the language variations cluttering the opening sentence:{{QuoteBox|The Pyrenees (Spanish: Pirineos; French: Pyrénées; Catalan: Pirineus; Occitan: Pirenèus; Aragonese: Perinés; Basque: Pirinioak) are a range of mountains ...}}
Conservapedia, being younger, is not replete with this sort of clutter, but it does have some. This example from [[Sin]] is about as bad:
{{QuoteBox|Sin (from Old English synn, from either Old Norse synd or German Sünde, from sun(d)jo it is true, from Sanskrit(?) es- it is) is any failure ...}}
It's not worth putting such details in a separate section (i.e. under it's own heading), but surely we shouldn't be cluttering opening sentences like this. Might I suggest that we create a template that would be an "[[etymology]] box", so that these sorts of details can float off to the right (or wherever) rather than clutter the opening sentence?
Oh, and the reason I'm posting this here is so that we don't just have a template, but we make this template a requirement.
Support? Opposition? Alternatives?
[[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 04:40, 7 January 2008 (EST)