Talk:Balkano-
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User:BrunoMed has just created a large number of new prefix entries, apparently from lists in appendices. I've dealt with the ones where he copied content whole from entries for prefixes ending with vowels to new entries for the same prefixes without those vowels. That still leaves the majority, which are nationality prefixes. For these, he copied the same content into every entry:
Shortened unetymologically from [Latin country name] in compounds- 20th century formation, perhaps echoing terms like Afro-, Indo-, Sino- etc.
[headword]
- pertaining to [English country name], especially as a political entity
This mechanical, cookie-cutter approach may be right in some cases, but it's clearly wrong in others. For one thing, I have my doubts about whether these are all 20th-century coinages, and there are some which are obviously not "shortened unetymologically"- such as Malayo- from Malay. This last one shows that there was no checking for whether the English country name actually exists as a country name.
Would someone please check these and either fix them or delete them, where necessary?
Thanks to User:-sche for some of the points made above. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:19, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
- I'm going through these now, and trying to clean them up. Some entries should perhaps be RFDed as just being a word plus -o-, like Balkano- (Balkan + -o-). - -sche (discuss) 23:01, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
- Particularly inept definitions include Uralo- and Romano-. - -sche (discuss) 23:04, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
- Polono- had a usage note on en-dash vs hyphen usage which we could templatize if we considered such a thing desirable (to the extent anyone follows the rule, it applies to far more than that one entry). - -sche (discuss) 07:05, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
- Anyway, I think I've cleaned up all of these now, correcting various definitions and etymologies and RFVing some. - -sche (discuss) 07:06, 9 February 2020 (UTC)