Talk:a la grecque
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The following discussion has been moved from Wiktionary:Requests for moves, mergers and splits (permalink).
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J3133 (talk) 07:57, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
- What exactly do you want to do? I'm the creator of these articles and I'm listening. Supevan (talk) 17:13, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
- The two entries are exact copies of each other, which is not how we like to do things, because it's difficult to keep them synchronized. Whichever is the more common spelling in Bokmål should remain as it is, while the other spelling should have most content removed and be reduced to an
{{alternative spelling of}}. —Mahāgaja · talk 18:13, 20 January 2021 (UTC)- Okay, how does one determine which form "deserves" the main entry, especially for this relatively obscure term which is not commonly used at all anyway. The Bokmål Dictionary lists them as equals, which is why I created both. I could make the change if we decide. Supevan (talk) 15:26, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
- If there's no straightforward way to discover which is more commonly used (Google Books, a selection of Bokmål newspapers, that sort of thing), I suppose you could flip a coin. —Mahāgaja · talk 17:50, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
- I think going for the etymologically 'correct' form might be advisable in such a case (the form with à). — Mnemosientje (t · c) 18:43, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
- Done. Supevan (talk) 17:24, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
- I think going for the etymologically 'correct' form might be advisable in such a case (the form with à). — Mnemosientje (t · c) 18:43, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
- If there's no straightforward way to discover which is more commonly used (Google Books, a selection of Bokmål newspapers, that sort of thing), I suppose you could flip a coin. —Mahāgaja · talk 17:50, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
- Okay, how does one determine which form "deserves" the main entry, especially for this relatively obscure term which is not commonly used at all anyway. The Bokmål Dictionary lists them as equals, which is why I created both. I could make the change if we decide. Supevan (talk) 15:26, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
- The two entries are exact copies of each other, which is not how we like to do things, because it's difficult to keep them synchronized. Whichever is the more common spelling in Bokmål should remain as it is, while the other spelling should have most content removed and be reduced to an