Wikipedia:Things to be moved to Wiktionary

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It has been suggested that this page or section be merged with Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary. (Discuss)

This Wikipedia page is currently inactive and is retained as a historical archive.
Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus has become unclear. If you want to revive discussion regarding the subject, you should seek broader input via a forum such as the proposals page of the village pump.

Wikipedia official policy: Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary

Note: please do not add any new requests to this page. If you would like to report a dictionary definition, simply tag the article with {{Copy to Wiktionary}}. See marking dictionary articles below for how to correctly tag an article.

Category:Copy to Wiktionary contains a list of dictionary articles that are candidates for moving to the transwiki namespace of Wiktionary via the transwiki process. This is a maintenance page that contains other listings. We would like help resolving the old entries below.

When you move an article, make sure that you do not break any links. Consider copying rather than moving to avoid these complications. Put links from the Wikipedia article to the Wiktionary article and back.

Resources for maintenance and collaboration v • d • e
Cleanup	General - By topic - Copy to Wiktionary - Notability Sorting - English grammar - Copyediting - Spam - Cleanup Taskforce - Wikify an article - Deorphan an article - Update an article
Categories	General cleanup - Articles to be categorized - Underpopulated - Undercategorized categories
Create an article	Most wanted - Requests 1 year+ - Requested articles - Short pages - Missing encyclopedic topics - Review anonymous article submissions
Referencing	Fact-check - Articles lacking sources - Need more references - Original research
Stubs	Advice - Stubs by topic - Most wanted - Short pages - Incomplete lists
Deletion	Speedy - Articles - Categories - Redirects - Templates - Misc. pages - Stub templates and categories - Log - Discussion archives - Review
Polishing	Expand an article - Peer review - Featured candidates - Fill a topic list
Translation into English	Wikipedia:Translation - Existing pages - Spanish trans. of the week - Interwiki link checker
Images	Requested pictures - Images for cleanup - Caption review - Images with missing articles
Controversy	Neutrality - Article accuracy - Statement accuracy
To-do lists	Articles - Projects - Books
Disambiguation	Disambiguation - Manual of Style Disambiguation - Hatnotes - Templates
More	Active wiki fixup projects - Open tasks - Articles to merge - Articles to split - Copyright violations - Requests - Backlogs - Expert request sorting - Missing names

[edit] Actively avoiding dictionary articles

You can help prevent the creation of dictionary articles (and the resulting wasted effort) by:

searching Wiktionary for existing dictionary articles before creating new articles on Wikipedia
using interwiki links to link from Wikipedia articles to Wiktionary articles if you want to link to articles about words, or to Wiktionary categories if you want to link to lists of definitions of words
ensuring that any hyperlinks that you create in articles follow the naming conventions in what they point to, in particular with regard to linking to singulars instead of plurals, linking to nouns instead of adjectives, and linking to the gerunds of verbs.

[edit] Marking dictionary articles

If you find a dictionary article please search Wiktionary to see whether a dictionary entry already exists in Wiktionary. If it does, please consider turning the Wikipedia article into a soft redirect, or turning the Wikipedia article into an adjective→noun or verb→gerund redirect.

If you find a dictionary article which belongs in Wiktionary, transwiki it! If you can't perform the transwikification yourself, it is suggested that you add the {{Copy to Wiktionary}} tag to the article.

This marks the pages so that future viewers will see that it needs to be moved, and adds the article to Category:Copy to Wiktionary.