Talk:dollhouse

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dollhouse

Sum of parts. A house for dolls. Boxieman (talk) 00:22, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Usually we only consider a word a sum of parts when its parts are separated by spaces or hyphens. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 00:36, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Keep. It's a single word. By definition it can't be sum of parts--Dmol (talk) 01:03, 29 July 2012 (UTC).

Keep. We treat English words spelled solid as atoms that are inherently includable. Terms consisting of words joined by hyphens can be includable but not automatically. For example, this page could be called the request-for-deletion page. We would not include request-for-deletion. In contrast, file-card (relatively obscure meaning) is probably includable (though it hasn't been challenged).

Other languages may come to different conclusions about such compounds in Wiktionary. German, Finnish, and Hungarian, I believe, do not automatically include solid-spelled compounds. DCDuring TALK 01:24, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Keep. No spaces isn't SoP; reader might be unable to parse it. Equinox ◑ 11:03, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Keep, it's conventional to keep attestable single words. WT:CFI isn't particularly clear on the issue, the polar opposite in fact, but ah well. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:06, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Keep. (Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion actually implies that a compound like this can be SOP, but common practice holds otherwise.) —Ruakh_TALK 13:36, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

But for the record, I do not support Dan Polansky's comment below. Just because something contains no spaces, that doesn't mean it's a single word and should be included. (Even in English, but especially in other languages.) —Ruakh_TALK 15:34, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

• SNOW Keep: per others above Purplebackpack89 ^{(Notes Taken) (Locker)} 21:56, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Delete could still be a sum of parts and the meaning is fairly obvious.Lucifer (talk) 23:34, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

"doll" can be slang for "darling" or "woman" (see doll) so by your usual "logic" it could be a term for a brothel (a house for dolls, or women). You are not consistent. Equinox ◑ 20:48, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

So now I am not being inclusive enough?Lucifer (talk) 20:34, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

• Keep per no spaces. I wanted to refrain from commenting for the obviousness, but let this be a precedent case with as many editor signatures as possible. --Dan Polansky (talk) 17:56, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
  1. Keep --WikiTiki89 (talk) 18:18, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
• Keep (I'm only voting to counteract Lucifer, although Dan's remark holds a lot of merit in my humble opinion.) --Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 15:16, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
• Keep for being a clear and straightforward example of "a word". bd2412 T 03:05, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Kept. — TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 06:27, 9 August 2012 (UTC)