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[edit] Etymology question

Why is it being reported that the Greek etymon is "caracter", with no "h"? "Ch" is the conventional way of transliterating the Greek letter known to us who speak English as "chi". -- Mike Hardy

==Removed etymology==

The word originates from the Greek word χαρακτήρ via the Latin word character, an instrument for marking or graving.

per WP:NOT —Wahoofive (talk) 16:25, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

WP:NOT what? dab (𒁳) 11:00, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge proposal

character (word) (originally character (sign)), appears to have been created earlier this year in an attempt to establish an article that encompasses several general uses of the word character. However, it seems to be little more than a combined wiktionary entry / disambiguation page masquerading as an article. There is already a character disambiguation page which adequately directs readers to the many character-related articles on Wikipedia, and character (word) offers nothing over this other than being a bit more explicit in how it goes about saying that the word character gets used in all these different ways.

I was going to nominate the character (word) for outright deletion due to redundancy, but it appears policy is to instead suggest a merge in this kind of situation. Therefore, I'm suggesting that the content of character (word) be reduced to a bare minimum and merged into both character (this disambig page) and the Wiktionary entry for character. —mjb (talk) 03:20, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't know what exactly you're suggesting to merge, but the disambig page shouldn't contain paragraphs of information. If the (word) article contains links to articles that could be referred to as just "character", those links should be included on the dab page with a brief phrase of description, but nothing else. I have no objection to the (word) article being deleted, as it does seem to be essentially a redundant dab page. Propaniac (talk) 20:39, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

"a combined wiktionary entry / disambiguation page masquerading as an article"? You will be surprised to learn that discussions of etymology of any length are rooted out with dedication by the dominating editors at wiktionary. For them, a "dictionary" is essentially a glossary and should not contain prose. Which makes wiktionary essentially useless for the purposes of a real dictionary. See also Category_talk:Etymologies. We have lots of articles on words and etymologies. E.g. god (word). "Character" is a very complicated case, much more involved than god or even witch. dab (𒁳) 11:04, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

  1. Why are you arguing about the viability of the Character (word) article here
  2. WHY DID YOU MOVE Character (sign) TO Character (word) IF YOU KEEP LINKING TO Character (sign)
  3. You can keep your precious headings and reorganization if it means two fewer things for you to kvetch about. I added symbol and sign (semiotics) to, shockingly, the "Signs and symbols" section. But I don't think Character (word) or Character (sign) should be linked until you can explain what that article is actually about, since you're not happy with its former description. Oh, and when you explain what the article's about, the article should actually be about that. Not what you imagine it might someday be. Propaniac (talk) 20:08, 4 January 2008 (UTC)