User:Equinox

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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
— Galileo Galilei

Notwithstanding their influence, we apprehend, however, that dictionary-makers are on the whole an oppressed race, doomed to more than their due share of obscure drudgery. […] They may have had their romance at home — may have been crossed in love, and thence driven to dictionarying; may have been involved in domestic tragedies — who can say?
— 1864, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 96), uncredited author

[T]he maximum number of revisions an author made is 237,600 for the English Wiktionary (user "Equinox") […] As an anonymous reviewer points out, this "sounds as^[sic] an incredibly high number of revisions for one single user".
— 2016, Wolfer & Müller-Spitzer, How Many People Constitute a Crowd and What Do They Do?

Words, words, words, words! You may as well listen to the birds.
— 2000, Coil

I thought working on "shitgibbon" entries would be a fun distraction from the heavier CFI matters that have arisen lately
— 2022, User:WordyAndNerdy

About me

I am the enfant terrible. Nobody wants me but I'm really useful.

Wonderfool

They say "don't feed the troll", but since WF has been around here unstoppably longer than I have, and I was accused of being him multiple times in the old days: I believe WF, to this project, is basically "Q" out of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Do you remember that guy, he would always turn up out of the blue, cause trouble, and force a resolution; and was an arrogant but rather witty jerk. Also he was omnipotent so they couldn't get rid of him. Well I think he kept resetting his router to get a new IP address. I have fed the troll.

Subpages

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Individual words to consider

• Africoid almighties Angloid anteventral antiaccelerator(s) antibioticogram anticonvertin antiflapping antiaccelerator antitwist apocarotenol(s) aporrhea aurilide auteured autometamorphic aviculoid
• baccharane basalar benzannelated,bisbenzannelated biamperometry biologistical bipotentiometry bivagotomy
• cadalin (WP says alt form of cadalene?) choai/spondai cladosiphonic clawfish codynamic comap(s) coperfect cribriporal cyperane cytomicrosome
• diaconals downkeying
• eotechnic (cf. neotechnic) exopunctae eyepin/eye pin (in jewellery; cf. headpin)
• frange* fusioning futuritive
• gagemeter genorheitron gonidangium gonocyst griseorhodin(s) groundfield
• harmonicals hexaaquacopper heteromyarian highracer/lowracer histial hypermodulation hyperschema hypocystal
• idealotropism/libidotropism/operotropism
• jinkohol
• macroid/microid (see pisoid) melopoeia* (in poetry) meristogenetic meristogenous mesene ("having a facial index of 50.0 to 54.9"?) metatexite microprofile (verb) microprofiler microshear microfusion*,macrofusion (sth in Intel processors?) misgating (noun, electronics)
• nucleofracture
• onflow oxyhexaster
• palatinepterygoid paracritical parapoetics parapreventive parasutural paratherapeutic paratherapy Parkerian/Parkeresque/Parkerism (related to transcendentalism?) partricin pelmatozoic pelorine performatism pericingulum/pericingular/pericingulate photophagotroph photophagotrophy phyllosiphonic plumoreticulate poikilothymia poststack presegment(s) prewarp (not Star Trek!) proairesis proterobase protocratic pseudoresolvent pseudosite pushload
• radiorelay radiothermal radiothermic rightmaking/wrongmaking
• sacropexy santalane saxifragoid(s) shionane skeletoid solus*/semisolus spheraster spirovetivane suberyl supergreenhouse (~ effect, ~ gases) superlevel*,superline* (in astronomy) super-Locrian superquantum syngenesioplastic
• telocratic thetanullwerte thujopsane
• underwash (verb? cf. overwash) upkeying upperstocks
• valleying
• wetwell (cf. drywell)
• IRC jargon: AOP*, SOP*
• Singlish particles: ah, hah, hor, lah, leh, lor, mah, meh, ya
• Soil science: entic epieutric eutric fractiplinthic fragic gelic* greyic hyperalic hyperdystric hypersalic isohumisol lamellic leptic lutic manganiferric oxyaquic perudic petroduric petroferric pisoplinthic placic redoxic rendzic ruptic sabric salic sombric terric turbic vertic vitron*
• Qualifications: MMet, MPharm, MPhys; see also Oxford's [1]
• Jobs in tinplate manufacturing: branding boy (also branning boy?), counter, duster, hooker (also a reaper, outside of tinplate sense), list boy/lister, riser, rubber, scaler, scourer, striker
• Types of motorbike? (cf. flathead): knucklehead, panhead, shovelhead, sportster
• Arrangements of conidia: arthrocatenate, blastocatenate, basocatenate
• "Facial index" words (old phrenology?), thanks to Ultimateria: euryene, mesene, leptene, euryprosopia, mesoprosopia, leptoprosopia, euryprosopic / europrosopic, mesoprosopic, leptoprosopic, hypereuryprosopic, hyperleptoprosopic, prosopic

ings

• crossing (something in sociolinguistics)
• eastlings
• fagotings / faggotings
• feerings: sth in agriculture, perh related to a furrow
• kirkings
• lampings: apparently related to light fittings
• scarfing, scarfings: some kind of timber in a ship; compare scarf, but unclear
• soppings: OK, sense not totally clear
• stovings
• underbearings
• waygoings -- OK but unsure of meaning
• westerings

Possible problem entries

These are not always bad but I have bookmarked them because I think work or research is needed.

• administer: check Spectator cite meaning
• Alternativism: investigate
• ambivalent: 2 senses? check OED, Chambers!
• cheese up: add glosses (slang? etc.) and verify senses with cites
• crass: check defs, compare with W1913!
• dystopia: verify sense 1
• femalia: perhaps RFV some senses
• Fortune 500: misplaced cites
• groundly: check all citations
• Hang: awful def, and check the weird plural
• harvest: check pagan sense
• headhair: not a "normal" word; also linked to
• highpriesthood, highpriestship: dubious forms without hyphen
• informationism: dodgy senses especially #4
• little boys room, little girls room: bad head? and apostrophe issue
• maidenhair: not a normal word, sort out pubic sense
• mammalogy, mammology: I think there is a mistake between mammals and breasts
• mother-out-law: check this whole set
• netherhair: awful, not a word anyone uses; netherlips: CRAP? — BUT nethermouth (Fanny Hill etc.?)
• nutting: check lemma vs. -ing form
• pull-to-publish: maybe move verb
• ruinism: check citations, wrong senses?
• sideling: is suspect; check OED?
• supposed: adjective needs work
• underlook: many different senses; needs attention
• zero chill: check def 3

Other places to get words

• Wiktionary:Requested entries (English)
• Wiktionary:List of languages (language names)
• User:Msh210/R'n'B
• Neume: lots of terms for obsolete music notation
• Attitude (heraldry)
• Boontling jargon
• Egyptian units of measurement
• Forth_and_Bargy_dialect#Modern_South_Wexford_English
• Freestyle skateboarding tricks
• Glossary of classical algebraic geometry (todo: I thru W)
• Glossary of architecture
• Appendix:Glossary of Boston slang: terms should be in a mainspace category if attested
• Glossary of botanical terms
• Broadcast terminology (possibly copyrighted)
• Glossary of card game terms
• Glossary of comics terminology
• Glossary of computer graphics
• Glossary of contract bridge terms (continue from book)
• Glossary of cricket terms
• Glossary of fencing
• Glossary of firefighting
• Glossary of graph theory terms
• Glossary of gymnastics terms
• Glossary of ice hockey terms
• Glossary of mammalian dental topography
• Glossary of motorsport terms
• Glossary of North American horse racing
• Glossary of professional wrestling terms
  • Professional wrestling strikes
  • Professional wrestling throws
• Glossary of underwater diving terminology
• Gamelan gong kebyar
• Lichen#Sexual_reproduction
• Dictionary of occupational terms: [2]
• List of Anglo-Cornish words
• List of conjectures (mathematics)
• List of English words of Turkic origin
• List of Indian breads
• List of obsolete units of measurement AND Egyptian units of measurement; and List of unusual units of measurement, List of humorous units of measurement
• List of syndromes
• Westminster_School#Westminster_jargon
• Eton College glossary [3] (copyrighted)
• Terms from basketry [4] (copyrighted): slath, soumak etc.
• List of diseases
• Multiservice tactical brevity code
• Medical slang
• Split (bowling): various types of split in bowling
• Surrealist techniques
• ASBP Scrabble words: [5] (copyrighted)
• Eye surgery: lots of technical terms here.
• Horse jumping obstacles: e.g. coffin, bullfinch.
• Friedel–Crafts_reaction#Scope_and_variations: lots of chemical "name reactions".
• Trace_fossil_classification#The_Seilacherian_System: lots of fossil words.
• List of optical illusions
• List of cocktails
• List of MeSH codes: links to thousands of scientific words
• List of minerals named after people: done the entries, but not the etymologies
• Morphology of Diptera: many parts of fly anatomy (see labelled diagrams)
• South African English: [6] (copyrighted)
• Many organic compounds in Cystophora retroflexa: [7]
• Missing words from major dictionaries
• Missing words used in Wiktionary
• Get a random transwiki word or phrase (learn more)
• Antarctic slang: [8] (copyrighted)
• Terms in wine-tasting: [9] (copyrighted)
• Some good anatomical terms here: [10] (copyrighted)
• Singlish: [11] (copyrighted)
• Appendix:Christian figures of speech
• Grip (tennis)#The_grips

Wiktionarians I have met

• User:Conrad.Irwin: in Cambridge, late 2000s.
• User:Dominic: in London, 2009.
• User:Donnanz: in Oxford, 2017.
• User:Theknightwho: in Swindon, 2022.
• Not met, but voice-talked: User:DCDuring (telephone), User:PseudoSkull (Skype), User:Metaknowledge (Discord).