User:Incnis Mrsi/Glossary

Incnis Mrsi’s uncommon and non-standard terms and meanings

Most are used in edit summaries, but occasionally in talk page conversation, user pages and even in articles.

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Words

bigot – generally, the same sense as in bigotry, but with emphasis to double standards and fanaticism

to botch, botcher – to inflict a damage, usually minor damage to several pages using poorly configured or unsupervised automated tools, or even by repeating some silly pattern by hands

cleansing – deletion of a content perceived as redundant or harmful, a harder version of the cleanup below

cleanup – various changes which do not add a new sense, ranging from WP:MOS-related fixes to removal of unneeded things

cockup – see wikt: cock-up

CONCEPTDAB – see WP:CONCEPTDAB

Actually, not a specifically Incnis Mrsi’s expression, but few users are familiar with it

contamination – an off-topical content in an article, which is usually subject to content split or otherwise moving away; see also WP: disambiguation

crap – something exceptionally poor, see wikt: crap

danger, dangerous – something inherently error-prone, which can lead to confusion for Wikipedia readers and editors (even for careful editors), or may otherwise inflict a damage

deapostrophization – replacing typewriter apostrophes with other characters, see ' (disambiguation)

degradation, to degrade – for the context of articles see WP: Shoot it early; for images see JPEG

dehyphenation – replacing hyphen-minuses, which serve as approximations to dashes and minus signs

dequotization – replacing spurious quotation marks with correct characters, see " (disambiguation) and ' (disambiguation)

experienced [user] – a user who has a considerable experience in (Wikimedia’s) technical arrangement, wiki structure and social affairs, not only articles’ writer or so; but not necessarily advanced user

fine interwiki – several proposals, mostly theoretical, see m: Fine interwiki

fROPPED – just deleted, usually something not useful at all

gibberish – not exactly the same that this word means in English: some sequence of words which is either not a text or has an extremely vague sense

hell (including such expressions as from hell and what the hell) – a sacral word

here refers to the current article (in those edit summaries or wiki comments the word appears), or, in the case of talk spaces, to the corresponding non-talk page

implicit merger – see m: Implicit merger

interwiki cleanup – see Help: Interlanguage links

JPEG (especially as JPEG diagram or JPEG drawing) – a swear word

lame – something substandard, and made not only contrary to manuals, but in a generally clueless way

non-article, not an article – either of two conditions:

• the title is ambiguous which cannot be easily fixed (see talk:Hydrogen ion for the brightest example)
• the content is subject to WP:CONSPLIT, an extreme case of #contamination which cannot be mitigated with simply cleansing an article

Generally, a severe case of a WP:DICTIONARY article.

to push, pushing – to do something without care, not only WP: POV pushing

red move – see WP:Redirect #SUPPRESS

responsive, responsively – generally, the same as in Responsibility, but with emphasis to possible demotion in the case of grave failure

star, stars – a reference to WP: featured content, usually sarcastic

typography – actually, an object of quasi-religious cult, see uncommon characters below

unreg – an unregistered user

waste, waste-maker – normally used where, in Russian, the word «брак» is appropriate. A "waste-maker" is a partial case of a "botcher". The difference is that "botcher" may ruin something already established, but a "waste-maker" only produce his/her waste, which may be fairly harmful, though.

Other

     – thin space and hair space, mysterious lesser-spacing spaces

… – ellipsis, a punctuation mark

· – interpunct, sometimes used for stuffing very short pages (encoded in 3 bytes)

– – en dash, not particularly common character in edit summaries and talk pages

’ – alternative apostrophe, especially useful in italic text because of unpredictable rendering of U+0027 ' APOSTROPHE

« » – guillemets, rarely used in English Wikipedia, but occasionally written in WP:IRC environment

? – delete character, has no meaning nor visual rendering (considered taboo in some traditions)