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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 22 August 2018 and 4 December 2018. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Traci.alexander. Peer reviewers: Texans 2018, Bandit ellie17.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 23:29, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Youth

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~~Is it just youth that compete in Hippology?~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Traci.alexander (talkcontribs) 23:28, 11 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 28 March 2021

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) -- Calidum 02:03, 4 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]



HippologyStudy of horses – This term is very confusing; per simply looking at the word it's much easier to guess it means the study of hippopotamuses. Important note: please do not determine your support/oppose vote as if this were a proposed move to "horsology". Georgia guy (talk) 01:47, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose unless an argument is made (and supported) that "hippology" isn't the common name for it. This seems unlikely given that, as the article explains, it's a common, established name for this discipline. As for confusion, regardless of what someone might have guessed if they didn't come to look it up in an encyclopedia, their misconception vanishes the instant they start reading the article, so where's there a problem? In addition, the article establishes that hippology goes well beyond what one would assume from the phrase "study of horses". Largoplazo (talk) 12:27, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Neigh Lots of scientific terms are confusing, and that's why they are (or should be) explained in the lead of the article, rather than the article title being dumb-downed. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 13:35, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Lugnuts, can you name an article with a title that's an example of what you said?? Georgia guy (talk) 13:51, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. Yes I can. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 14:11, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
And what article (besides this one) is there?? Georgia guy (talk) 14:11, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Pandemic isn't about pandas, neither Neontology nor Neonatology is about neon, Logotherapy has nothing to do with any of three things that somebody could imagine it to mean from the first three or four letters (logs, words, or studies), and neither Penology nor Penistone is about penises. In addition, one could argue that Hippopotamus is badly named because its prefix, to somebody who knows what the prefix "hippo-" means, might expect that article to be about horses. Largoplazo (talk) 16:33, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
In your neon examples; all 3 words are derived from a Greek word meaning new; they're just different words with different meanings but the same root. Georgia guy (talk) 16:37, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Which doesn't reduce the relevance of them in the slightest: prefixes that could lead somebody to think before reading the articles about them that they meant something other than what they mean. Largoplazo (talk) 16:38, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Well done, Largoplazo. — BarrelProof (talk) 02:33, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.