Talk:gold

merged with translations found on http://elements.vanderkrogt.net/element.php?sym=Au with permission from the author Polyglot 22:57, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Adjective form

why is golden comparable and gold no? supposedly they mean the same thing, right? --189.10.66.118 16:26, 14 June 2010 (UTC)

I think it is because golden is a regular adjective, which can be comparable, but gold is more often a noun, and nouns can be used appositively just like adjectives. To me, more golden sounds perfectly fine, but I understand more gold only to mean a larger amount of gold. If someone said, "this ring is more gold than that one," I would correct him, saying "you mean, this ring HAS more gold". —Stephen 17:05, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

"Lua error: not enough memory"

all over the page, please fix--Sigehelmus (talk) 16:45, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

@Erutuon fixed it last time. Not sure what's eating up all the memory. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 16:55, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

@Sigehelmus, Metaknowledge: I added the page to {{redlink category}} so it doesn't check for redlinks. That at least moves the error to the very bottom of the page. — Eru·tuon 17:22, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

And I converted translations to {{t-simple}}. That defers the problem for a while. — Eru·tuon 17:24, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

RFD discussion: January–February 2019

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gold

"Miscellaneous unit of currency in fantasy genre." This is just sense 1, the yellow metal. Many everyday objects occur in fantasy games but they are not separate senses of the words. Equinox ◑ 00:44, 26 January 2019 (UTC)

It's sense 2, "A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so." But, yes, not a distinct sense.--Prosfilaes (talk) 00:25, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Delete, covered in sense 2. Ultimateria (talk) 18:01, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

Delete. There are games where your wealth is recorded in "gold" although you may acquire not only gold coins but silver coins, copper coins, etc, but that seems no different from recording your wealth in "dollars" even if some of it is in the form of dimes. - -sche (discuss) 20:54, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

RFV discussion: February–April 2022

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gold (verb)

Sense: “to pyrolyze or burn food until the color begins to change to a light brown, but not as dark as browning”. I'm having trouble finding any uses of gold as a verb at all, least of all in this sense. I did find "when the sun is just golding the summits of the hills" at [1], but nothing relating to food. —Mahāgaja · talk 14:35, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

This was added by Luciferwildcat in 2012, so I'm not holding out much hope (he has more than 800 lines of deleted contributions). Searching for golded finds enough uses in Victorian-type pseudo-archaic poetic verbiage like your quote for that to pass. I also found "more golded than Louganis" and a golded watch case. There's this use of the challenged sense. That's all I have time for right now. Just a thought: there are enough odds and ends that it might be better to have a more general sense like "to make golden". Chuck Entz (talk) 16:10, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

The uses of golded look adjectival. — SGconlaw (talk) 04:27, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

I suspect "golded flaxseed" in the use of the challenged sense linked to above is a typo for "golden flaxseed", which is a very common term. —Mahāgaja · talk 20:48, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

RFV-resolved. I took Chuck Entz's suggestion and generalized the definition to "to make or become golden". The quotes I put in the entry were the ones that most clearly support the interpretation as a verb. Kiwima (talk) 00:09, 5 April 2022 (UTC)