Talk:Pass

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[edit] Cleanup

(Continuing from Talk:Passing)

It seems to me that there are two kinds of cleanup that may be appropriate here:

  • MoS:DP says only one link per line. This is a pretty mechanical cleanup.
  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary seems to apply to much of the content. I'm not sure where to draw the line - clearly some of it is appropriate, but a lot of it is just definition.

I'll try to do a bit of the more mechanical cleanup (e.g., do the examples for "special ticket" really need to be a bulletized list?), but let's talk about the WP:WINAD question. Jordan Brown 03:41, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Strictly speaking, all the definition lines with no content should go. Also, the bracketed examples on the ends of lines should go.
Passage should not be in the list of versions of "pass" but should stand alone.

[edit] Proposed restructure

For the Proof of Age Standards Scheme, see PASS.

A Pass can refer to:

Pass (surname) may refer to:

Passing or To pass can refer to:

  • Passing (sociology) means to pass ones self off as a member of one or more different sociological groups such as different:
    • Passing (disability), a disabled person presenting themselves as not being disabled or as being less disabled than they really are
    • Passing (ethnic group), a member of one ethnic group presenting themselves as a member of another
    • Passing (gender), a person of one sex presenting themselves as a member of the opposite gender, or an intersexed person presenting themselves as a chosen gender
    • Passing (racial identity), a person of one race presenting themselves as a member of another
    • Passing (sexual orientation), a person of one sexual orientation presenting themselves as another
    • Passing (social class), a person of one social class presenting themselves as a member of another
  • Passing (juggling) is when two or more people share a juggling pattern
  • Passing of vehicles on roads
  • Passing in regards to the process of digestion
  • Passing (law) approval of a proposed law by a legislative body

Passing is also:

Similar terms:

  • Passing away is a euphemism for dying
  • Passing off (legal term), a way of enforcing an unregistered trademark by showing that someone else has pretended or impled that something else is the same
  • Passage (strait), a very narrow but navigable shipping channel

[edit] Comments?

That's about as tightly as I could see it being trimmed, but introduces a couple of red links that might not ever go anywhere. Pass (compiler) and Passing (law) would fudge out the red links. :) --AliceJMarkham 06:20, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Looks good to me, with the two fudges you list.

Perhaps PASS should move into the main list. Jordan Brown 19:36, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I've left the surname section separated for now. WP:MoS appears to imply that this should be a separate section, and if any additional people are added with this surname, it will be justified.
Rather than fudge links, I've simply done them as non-links.
I've just done what I hope is my final edit of this page for some time. No bolding within entries, sorted to put non-link entries at the bottom of the sections, etc. --AliceJMarkham 22:32, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I found a few more nits, and I'm not entirely happy with the compiler meaning (but I can't come up with anything better), but I think our work here is pretty much done... good work! Jordan Brown 05:25, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

You're right, that one does still need some more thought. I've just done a few more changes to make a few entires more concise.
Given that the scale of the changes now are only the odd word here, I think we're pretty close to done. Yay to us. :) --AliceJMarkham 01:34, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
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