Talk:Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Article Checklist for "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis"

Workgroup category or categories	Linguistics Workgroup [Categories OK]
Article status	Developing article: beyond a stub, but incomplete
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Basic cleanup done?	Yes
Checklist last edited by	--AlekStos 03:07, 18 March 2007 (CDT)

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I think, perhaps, that this should be titled instead Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (word), because the entry does not concern the thing but the word. --Larry Sanger 19:36, 29 November 2006 (CST)

I understand you logic, but since the article does not need disambiguation with any other article, there is little need for a change in name; though just as long as the categories at the bottom are correctly labeled. If you read the article, you'll find that the word was originally a hoax. Though it has a pseudo scientific meaning, it's not really a scientific word at all - lest not any more so than Marry Poppins 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious'. The addition of the suffix (word) will only serve in preventing the article appearing when the "go" button is hit, requiring the user to use the "Search" button and thus decreasing usability while at the same time increasing the load on the server. Derek Harkness 07:23, 30 November 2006 (CST)

Let me put my concern another way, then: do we intend to have an article about the thing--under that name? Or is the thing covered completely under pneumoconiosis? If so, then I agree with you. --Larry Sanger 13:23, 30 November 2006 (CST)

I think the 'thing' is pneumoconiosis, the P45 form only of linguistic interest. I can't imagine a doctor writing P45 on a patients medical notes. Doing the google test: P45 gave only word trivia, where as 'pneumoconiosis' gave only medial information. P45 is only a funny word not a real medical term Derek Harkness 04:09, 1 December 2006 (CST)