Category talk:IPA pronunciations with repetition
Latest comment: 7 years ago by Angr
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I don't see the point of this category. It's a subcat of Category:Pronunciation cleanup, but nothing needs cleaning up. There is nothing wrong with repeating a symbol in IPA transcription. Long vowels and geminate consonants can be transcribed either with the long mark (ː) or by doubling the symbol. Both methods are legitimate. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 17:44, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
- Delete While it contains a handful of legitimately bad entries (eg this and this) and slightly messy looking entries where syllable marking might be a good idea (this), the module that does this generates too much chaff to sort through. For instance, it tags deinen#German, because it reads nn̩ as
nn̩, budget#Italian because it reads dd͡ʒ asdd͡ʒand chū...khai-sí because it doesn't like the ellipsis*. There are also entries like fountain, Hermione and 雛祭り which are apparently only there because of the {{ of a nested template. It would be better if there were more specific categories for things that can only be errors (doubled stress markers or ties, tripled characters, etc). Smurrayinchester (talk) 15:34, 16 February 2015 (UTC)- (*) Incidentally, I note that whoever put this together was clever enough to recognise that tone markers can legitimately be doubled, so khai-sí isn't tagged. Smurrayinchester (talk) 15:34, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
- Comment re "It would be better if there were more specific categories for things that can only be errors": or we could simply re-purpose this category. - -sche (discuss) 14:32, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
- Delete. Useless category and focuses on such a minor detail that honestly no one will care about. Philmonte101 (talk) 22:24, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
- It's not a cleanup category as it simply contains entries with the same IPA character appearing twice in a row. And since that's fantastically uninteresting let's delete it. What next? Category:IPA pronunciations containing a? Renard Migrant (talk) 22:28, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
- I have removed the category generating code from the module. DTLHS (talk) 22:30, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
- Deleted. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 10:58, 14 September 2016 (UTC)