Talk:colonitis

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colonitis

We need an entry for this, but it's already been deleted as a misspelling and I can't be bothered to cite it myself. Kappa 04:15, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Was it deleted after going through the appropriate procedure or just deleted arbitrarily because someone didn't know the word and didn't bother to check? It's in OED2 and gets plenty of GBS hits. Moglex 07:11, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

It was deleted as a misspelling because I did check. Stop with the personal attacks. --Connel MacKenzie 04:31, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Please learn the difference between a question and a personal attack. I'm not sure how something with so many GBS hits can be a misspelling and it's a pity that you didn't see fit to follow the RFV procedure. It may be that that sort of behaviour is allowed but it doesn't do anything to encourage people to enhance the dictionary. Moglex 20:26, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Readded with a simple definition. SemperBlotto 07:24, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Albeit, incorrect. (That is not medical terminology.) --Connel MacKenzie 04:37, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

GBS shows colonitis used in medical literature so that objection seems spurious. Plus there are 18,000+ Google hits which, although irrelevant to CFI certainly show that the word is not obsolete and is still used to describe a medical condition. Moglex 12:52, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

The google book hits all seem to be rather old, or from Chinese writers. Is there any objection to marking this as "dated or non-standard" Kappa 23:19, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Google Scholar hits are mostly newer (post 1990), also mostly Chinese authors. DCDuring 23:45, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

A Google Scholar search for "colitis" and "colonitis" yielded the following quote by NI Kulish (1977) Problems of medical engineering terminology Biomedical Engineering: "... clinical terminology. The term denoting inflammation of the large intestine is "colitis", but incorrectly "colonitis"."

Merck's Manual 17th ed. doesn't have an index entry for "colonitis", but does for "colitis". If the Chinese articles were all originally written in Chinese and translated, we might be able to attribute the use of an older term to the use of out-of-date medical dictionaries by translators.

Alternate spelling or Redirect to colitis ? DCDuring 00:12, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Why would you dig up a reference that calls it "incorrect" then suggest "alternate spelling?" No redirects in the main namespace (in general, except for multi-word idiom forms.) As far as I know, the Wiktionary options are #1) delete it as a misspelling, #2) keep it, indicating it is erroneous. To suggest it as a valid alternate would be very misleading. --Connel MacKenzie 17:59, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

I was looking to see if there was anyone who simultaneously acknowledged the existence of both spellings. If the source was more lingustically authoritative, I would certainly have followed it. I am sure that we could find sources that would characterize many of our many Wiktionary entries as erroneous, encouraging the degradation of the language, etc. I would hazard a guess that colonitis is an older spelling that will survive as long as Chinese medical translators use older chinese-english medical dictionaries.

I stand corrected. Keep, possibly indicating somehow as an older or less preferred variant, if such a device exists. DCDuring 23:01, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

"#1) delete it as a misspelling, #2) keep it, indicating it is erroneous." What is the point of having rigorous CFI criteria and then arbitrarily deciding that a word that easily satisfies those criteria be deleted or stated as erroneous? Moglex 20:26, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Cited, retagged as obsolete, doesn't appear to be used in recent medicine, colitis is preferred. Passed. - [The]DaveRoss