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Spaces edit

Latest comment: 4 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

The Dictionary.com route this template uses doesn't seem to like + for spaces, which is what {{urlencode}} turns it into. The site appears to use - to represent a space, but can also handle encoded spaces. Compare:

Interestingly, https://www.dictionary.com/noresult?term=swimming+pool correctly redirects to the canonical /browse/swimming-pool. Since we can't override the default behavior of the urlencode magic word, would it make more sense to have the template use this last route instead? Ibadibam (talk) 17:47, 30 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

Fixed using Module:String. It seems no-brainer that the canonical URL is the one the template should use if ever possible. Nardog (talk) 23:14, 30 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

Random House edit

Latest comment: 7 days ago3 comments2 people in discussion

@Lambiam: I am not sure if having the publisher as Random House here is correct. The website only says Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2022 (just "based on", not "an extension of"), and under its About page it says the website was acquired by Rock Holdings. I can't see anything indicating that Dictionary.com content has been published by Random House; the overall copyright notice for the page is to "Dictionary.com, LLC". What do you think? eviolite (talk) 01:14, 4 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

If the dictionary is edited and published by Random House then it should be listed as the publisher, even if it is hosted on a website they don't own. That said, the about page says they acquired the Random House Unabridged Dictionary in December 2004, and it's "the foundation of Dictionary.com's proprietary dictionary" which is "continually updated by our team of experienced lexicographers". This article (by the US Embassy in Japan for some reason) mentions a "lexicographer" and a "managing editor" at Dictionary.com, whose social media profiles indeed say they work for Dictionary.com, not Random House. So it does seem more appropriate to attribute the unabridged dictionary to Dictionary.com rather than to Random House. Nardog (talk) 06:20, 4 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

And they just fired all the lexicographers...

Nardog (talk) 16:38, 4 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

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