Category talk:Slang

Some of these pages should be merged with their parent terms and changed to redirects. For instance on the home run page there could be a section called slang for home runs (or something) with a listing of all the terms. --MichaelEng 22:47, 17 September 2006 (EDT)

Well, I guess the problem with that is you would have to know each time you're starting a page that you need to cover not only a term but also its slang terms. Most users won't realize that. I agree it makes sense, but not most people won't realize it. Plus, isn't there a value in organizing things in several ways so that everyone who want to find info will find it somehow? -- Randy 22:56 17 September 2006 (EDT)

No, they would just be redirects with the information added on to the pages. In fact home runs already has this, click on Tater. Of course that section could be expanded (Baseball has several colorful names for home runs such as...) but it gets rid of five word "articles." --MichaelEng 23:01, 17 September 2006 (EDT)

One easy way of handling this for glossary terms is to have an "AKA" section just after the formal term. You'd wind up with something like:

A curveball (aka curve, bender, hook, yakker) is a breaking ball pitch that is slower and has a larger break than a slider....

Each time somebody added a redirect page for a slang name, they could then add the slang term to the "aka" list. For something like home run, where there have to be well over a dozen synonyms, you might want to add a separate "synonyms" section instead. --Roger 11:43, 18 September 2006 (EDT)