Wiktionary talk:Votes/pl-2009-03/ELE Amendment 1

Why "sentence"?

Each definition should be treated as a sentence: beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop.

I understand the appeal of a minimal wording change (just "may" to "should"), but I think the whole "treated as a sentence" notion is broken. If all we mean is that it should start with a capital letter and end with a period, then I think the best wording is:

Each definition should begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop (period).

If that's not all we mean, then we need to say what else we mean, because it's not obvious.

—Ruakh_TALK 15:45, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Well, if the 2nd vote passes, then the sentence would be rewritten anyway. Because of that, I'm concerned that if I try to rewrite it in this vote also, the combined outcomes of the votes might become ambiguous or unclear. It would be possible to rewrite the votes in a way that avoids this danger, but I'd rather keep things simple and have straightforwardly separate votes on the issues of substance. If the Template:policy vote (which I'm going to try to put up tomorrow) then passes, hopefully we can have a non-controversial -- and sorely needed! -- rewrite of the whole ELE for clarity and style. -- Visviva 17:07, 13 March 2009 (UTC)`

Good luck. I'm still burned on the process, but I'll vote for these (at least 1 & 3). JesseW 05:34, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

some thoughts

These look like a step in the right direction but I think that definitions like "in a(n) x", "during a y" and "not z" should not be capitalised. 50 Xylophone Players talk 16:38, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

I disagree (though I am more of the "these definition can and should be improved" line of thought anyway). If the definition would be altered for appearing on the front page as Word of the Day, there is no reason the definition should not be altered on the entry page. Circeus 14:45, 14 July 2009 (UTC)