Usor:Muke/quality
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[preliminary thoughts on] Characteristics of the best style of article:
- Will use current page formatting guidelines - in particular: use of templates, correct sorting in language category, and the inflection line
- Will have IPA pronunciations of all major/national dialects, and audio files that represent them
- Will list any major alternative/dialect spellings, and common abbreviations or symbols
- Will present etymologies, or acknowledgements of uncertain etymology, from published or otherwise reputable sources
- Will define, at least, the root sense(s) of the word properly (preferably with genera proxima and differentiae specificae)
- A definition:
- Must apply to anything that bears the name
- Must indicate what kind of thing it is (genus)
- Must only apply to things that bear the name
- Must actually indicate what the thing is like
- Must be in good defining style (use clear language, omit needless words...)
- A definition:
- Will (if not a Latin word) have, besides the definitions, a Latin translation for each sense.
- Will use each sense of the word in a sentence which illustrates its meaning (and if not a Latin word, will also give a translation of that example into Latin)
- Will present the word's inflections, if any
- Will provide guidelines on how to use the word, or avoid usage commonly perceived as uneducated, with reference to published sources
- Will indicate semantically nearby words: synonyms, antonyms meronyms, holonyms, cognates, etc.
- Will indicate words derived from this word, in its language and in others
- Will (if a Latin word) have at least 25 translations, with all information
- Will have at least five citations of the word in use, spanning five centuries, or the life of the language, or the life of the word, whichever is shortest
- Will include links to at least one other dictionary entry on this word, or to a Wikipedia entry on that word in its language
For contrast, the most minimal substub entry should have at least:
- the language of the word
- an approximation of the meaning
an article has enough to not be marked as {{stipula}} when...?