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@ ItsPugle: Wikipedia has a precedent for using the word "usurp" in a non-negative context: WP:USURP for user accounts and WP:USURPTITLE for article titles. This describes the same sort of thing, so I think the same word is appropriate. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 04:10, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
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to keep the meaning that it used to be for something else, rather than being assigned for the first time?But that's not really the sense in which 'reappropriate' is typically used. What you described would be a better fit for re- words like reclaim, redirect... or the one you came within a hair's breadth of, even employing its root in your definition:reassign.
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions § IMAGENAZI shortcut. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 21:53, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
Disambiguated shortcut is an oxymoron. Why would we DAB a shortcut if we have to go via an additional page every time? One of the suggestions in an Rfd for a shortcut was to DAB it, and I was surprised to know there are some 80 shorcuts that are DABs. Can we not ensure that shortcuts lead the editor to one and only one target? Anything else, can be a WP page DAB, but not a shortcut. Jay (Talk) 11:42, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
A couple of months ago, an editor wrote an essay. The same editor also created five slightly different ALLCAPS shortcuts for it. Could we suggest to editors that a multiplicity of shortcuts is not a desirable outcome? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 22:18, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I created a shortcut Template:UZAE as a shortcut for Template:Use South African English. The problem is if I use UZAE directly in an article, it isn't very descriptive of what it means to an editor. Is there a way for the UZAE template to show its parent's name, or a description of what it is? Currently, I search for the quicker to search "UZAE" but insert the Use South African English template. Thank you, Maqdisi ( talk) 06:47, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
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@ ItsPugle: Wikipedia has a precedent for using the word "usurp" in a non-negative context: WP:USURP for user accounts and WP:USURPTITLE for article titles. This describes the same sort of thing, so I think the same word is appropriate. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 04:10, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
{{
ping|ItsPugle}}
on reply)
04:23, 1 August 2020 (UTC){{
ping|ItsPugle}}
on reply)
09:38, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
{{
ping|ItsPugle}}
on reply)
05:23, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
to keep the meaning that it used to be for something else, rather than being assigned for the first time?But that's not really the sense in which 'reappropriate' is typically used. What you described would be a better fit for re- words like reclaim, redirect... or the one you came within a hair's breadth of, even employing its root in your definition:reassign.
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Arguments to avoid in image deletion discussions § IMAGENAZI shortcut. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 21:53, 18 June 2021 (UTC)
Disambiguated shortcut is an oxymoron. Why would we DAB a shortcut if we have to go via an additional page every time? One of the suggestions in an Rfd for a shortcut was to DAB it, and I was surprised to know there are some 80 shorcuts that are DABs. Can we not ensure that shortcuts lead the editor to one and only one target? Anything else, can be a WP page DAB, but not a shortcut. Jay (Talk) 11:42, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
A couple of months ago, an editor wrote an essay. The same editor also created five slightly different ALLCAPS shortcuts for it. Could we suggest to editors that a multiplicity of shortcuts is not a desirable outcome? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 22:18, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I created a shortcut Template:UZAE as a shortcut for Template:Use South African English. The problem is if I use UZAE directly in an article, it isn't very descriptive of what it means to an editor. Is there a way for the UZAE template to show its parent's name, or a description of what it is? Currently, I search for the quicker to search "UZAE" but insert the Use South African English template. Thank you, Maqdisi ( talk) 06:47, 10 May 2023 (UTC)