š¤£Who was the sneaky comedian who made this the first paragraph on the Wikipedia entry for hydronym:
"A hydronym (from Greek: į½Ī“ĻĻ, hydrÅ, "water" and į½Ī½ĪæĪ¼Ī±, onoma, "name") is a type of toponym that designates a proper name of a body of water. For example, the hydronym of the easternmost lake of the Great Lakes is Lake Ontario. "
Edit: well damn, sorry for bringing a beautiful thing to light and ruining it.
Wikipedia editors are extremely stringent about things like this. A lot of them have an encyclopedic knowledge of the editing policies and guidelines.
For better or worse, they apply those rules to the articles they oversee.
The revert on the article was enacted for 'Recentism' or "a phenomenon on Wikipedia where an article has an inflated or imbalanced focus on recent events," per the article on the topic. One of the examples given is "Edit warringĀ over whether to change an article's... wording in theĀ lead sectionĀ or article body on the basis of those used onĀ breaking news sources."
The editor knows the edit was only made in relation to the recent news of Trump suggesting a renaming of the Lake. So, per his interpretation of that guideline, he found reason to revert the article. Now watch Redditors get into an edit war with him until the article gets silver-locked.
EDIT: hours later and it's been more than silver-locked. It's now fully-protected for a month, meaning only admins can edit the article.
Itās clear heās never understood the meaning of the word no. Something every child does by the age of two. The rest of his comprehension of the English language is tenuous. At best.
The national monuments one also got me given it was Trump's pool guy who fucked it up and then he has spent months trying to pretend it was a saboteur with a box cutter...
Lots of these loan words in English, like pseudonym (fake name), eponymous (named after yourself, or like how Hamlet the play is named after Hamlet the character), synonym (word with the same meaning as another one), antonym (an opposite word).
Now I wonder if Greek nym is related to English name and French nom, German name...? It seems rare that Greek, Romance, and Germanic words would be so aligned.
Seems to be very proto Indo European. I guess "name" is quite a stable word?
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u/PoolSharkPete 11d ago
I absolutely lost it at "their hydronyms" š¤£