User:EncycloPetey/Model pages
This is a personal project page for organizing and tracking potential pages to serve as style guide models, both for general format and for specific tricky situations. If you have suggestions, I ask that you please make them on the talk page rather than editing the content on this page. --EncycloPetey 02:32, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Selection criteria:
- The word must be reasonably common.
- The word should exist as a single part of speech (when possible).
- The entry should be fully expanded per the criteria used for Collaboration of the Week.
- The various definitions should be easy to distinguish from each other (except for advanced entries).
In principle, a good model should have a layout clean enough for an English language learner to understand.
Simple format[edit]
These are entries with a limited number of definitions, single etymology, and single pronunciation per region.
- Adjectives: flexible, transparent
- Nouns: apple, aroma
- Proper nouns: Central Europe
- Verbs: listen
- Multiple POS: now, parrot, wet
- non-lemma: apter, visits, weeds
- Multiple languages: biceps
Complex format[edit]
These are entries with a limited number of definitions, but not limited to a single etymology, single pronunciation, or single part of speech.
- Single etymology, multiple pronunciations: predicate (predicates)
- Single pronunciation, multiple etymologies: cant, round, (chaps)
- Multiple etymologies and pronunciations: hinder
- Total etymology, pronunciation, POS mess:
- Multiple inflections:
Advanced format[edit]
These are complex entries with many definitions.
- featherbed (for Alternative spellings)
- set