Talk:Once upon a time

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[edit] Commonly used in

"It was commonly used in the stories of Hans Christian Andersen, or The Brothers Grimm"
Really? Surely the former wrote in Danish and the latter in German, so this exact phrase in English can't have been used. Are there some good examples in stories originally written in English? --David Edgar 15:18, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Does anyone know what the equivalent would be in Chinese? 24.165.174.123 01:44, 20 October 2005 (UTC) Anne Barringer, 19 October 2005

[edit] Meaning?

Considering the very phrase "once upon a time" is now somewhat archaic, I'd like to see the original meaning of the phrase noted. I think it means something like "once, at a certain unspecified time, ...". Dcoetzee 03:27, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] (Partial) transwiki?

I think the list of translations should be merged with the (smaller) list at Wiktionary, and possibly deleted from here. --Ørjan 07:13, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

I disagree. The Wiktionary is an English language dictionary. It seems that if anything, the list in the Wiktionary should be assimilated into this one. Kingnosis 22:10, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Ah but the English Wiktionary doesn't only store English words. Its purpose is to define English words and translate non-English words into English. For examples, please see wikt:boy and wikt:sugar. Thanks GizzaChat © 04:38, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
There are also already many such translation lists from English over at Wiktionary. My impression is that English is only the language for explanations, the dictionary itself is multilingual to/from English. --Ørjan 07:03, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Galactic Basic?

Surely there is no place for made-up sci-fi langauges in what is essentially an anthropological article?

Agreed, removed. 128.227.68.119 20:13, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Jedi? --AnYoNe! 15:50, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Do not move it to Wiktionary

The first part of the article is of encyclopedic significance, and should be kept in Wikipedia. It is also an helpful complement to other articles (see: What links here). Velho 20:08, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

My understanding is that transwiki only means copying, and that the question of what if anything should be removed from the original page is separate. I did suggest removing the list of translations however. --Ørjan 06:56, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2007-04-14 Automated pywikipediabot message

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--CopyToWiktionaryBot 04:33, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

I hope I did not do anything wrong by adding the template to the main page immediately, this is the first time I tried to suggest a transwiki. The article seems to be under heavy revision, do the further revisions get transferred automatically or does this tag need to be removed to repeat the process once things calm down? --Ørjan 06:53, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
The further reversions do not get transferred automatically. If you wanted an article to be transwikied a 2nd time, you would need to add the Copy to Wiktionary tag again to the article. Note that the current Copytowiktionarybot tries not to transwiki an article more than once, so the 2nd transwiki might not be done, unless you requested it from the person running the bot. --Xyzzyplugh 13:54, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fresh Prince

Someone put the lyrics to The Fresh Prince in this article. I'll remove it. 75.109.148.221 (talk) 19:39, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, didn't realize I wasn't logged in. Sailorknightwing (talk) 19:41, 29 May 2008 (UTC)