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Slashification

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Why is the Solidus slashified? In the moment there are inconsistencies all around due to this change. Pjacobi 19:22, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

See Talk:Solidus. All links to solidus should be fixed now to point to slash (punctuation) Nohat 19:42, 2004 Jul 9 (UTC)

Date range

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"Contrariwise, the form with a hyphen, 7-8 May, would refer to the two-day period"—do you really really mean hyphen (in which case, please explain why), or did you confuse it with en dash? Kwantus 2005 June 28 14:33 (UTC)

Well, with a typewriter there's only the hyphen, so that's what I wrote. All right, I don't know whether typographers would use an en dash. So wouldn't someone find out? --Sobolewski 17:25, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash, en-dash is used to indicate a closed range.
They're both used to indicate closed ranges, en dash in more considered contexts and the hyphen informally. — LlywelynII 14:15, 18 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@LlywelynII 5.116.98.247 (talk) 22:33, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Why additional unrelated punctuation

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There is a large column containing a plethora of Punctuation symbols , word dividers, general typography etc. Why is that there? DGerman (talk) 15:48, 28 May 2017

Slash: history of the word

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In the History section, the article currently reads

The name "slash" is a recent development, first attested in American English c. 1961,[1] but has gained wide currency through its use in computing, a context where it is sometimes even used in British English in preference to the usual name "stroke".

Can anyone verify that against the "long" OED? Because the only reference in New Oxford American Dictionary (3 ed.) entry for "Slash" accessed via the Wikipedia Library says: {{blockquote| 2. an oblique stroke (/) in print or writing, used between alternatives (e.g., and/or), in fractions (e.g., 3/4), in ratios (e.g., miles/day), or between separate elements of a text.
■ [usually as modifier] a genre of fiction, published chiefly in fanzines or online, in which characters who appear together in movies, television, or other popular media are portrayed as having a sexual (especially homosexual) relationship.
[1980s: from the use of an oblique stroke to link adjoining names or initials (as in Kirk/Spock and K/S. ]
[ ... ]
– ORIGIN late Middle English: perhaps imitative, or from Old French esclachier "break in pieces". The noun dates from the late 16th century.[2].

Comments? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 20:30, 4 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@John Maynard Friedman: The online full OED says "5. A thin sloping line, thus /; = oblique n. 4, solidus n.1 2. U.S. Also slash-mark." The list of examples starts with 1961, but here we have a common error: the OED does not claim to know the earliest use of a word! Incidentally the 1961 citation is to Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang., so that could be a place to look for further information. Zerotalk 05:41, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This technical report ca 1950 has it. And this 1949 military signals manual. And this 1947 manual. Zerotalk 06:00, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. TBF, the current text does say "earliest attested". TBH, what drew my attention to the current citation is that it looks amateurish and thought surely we can do better than that. I'll try later on to see if I can a form of words to cite the 1947 manual without a WP:OR vio. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 14:44, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "slash, n.1". OED Online. December 2020. Oxford University Press. https://www-oed-com.library.access.arlingtonva.us/view/Entry/181388?rskey=kGzdlw&result=1&isAdvanced=false (accessed February 14, 2021).
  2. ^ https://www-oxfordreference-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/view/10.1093/acref/9780195392883.001.0001/m_en_us1291295?rskey=5Cn7US&result=4

, 36.37.152.147 (talk) 18:05, 6 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal to replace the infobox

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/
Slash (punctuation)
In UnicodeU+002F / SOLIDUS (/)
Related
See alsoU+005C \ REVERSE SOLIDUS
Other types of slash, see list below.

The article currently uses {{Infobox punctuation mark}}, so that it gives the primary symbol for an "ASCII slash" and then (smaller) a fairly arbitrary selection from the list of other slashes listed near the end of the body. It is not at all obvious that this meets the criteria in MOS:INFOBOX:

The purpose of an infobox is to summarize, but not supplant, the key facts that appear in an article. Barring the specific exceptions listed below, an article should remain complete with its infobox ignored. The less information that an infobox contains, the more effectively it serves its purpose, allowing readers to identify key facts at a glance. Some infoboxes need to use more than a handful of fields, but information should be presented in a short format, wherever possible, and exclude unnecessary content. Avoid links to sections within the article; the table of contents provides that function.

Conversely, IMO, {{Infobox symbol}} gives the essential information in a better form.

Full disclosure: I wrote {{Infobox symbol}}, so wp:Mandy Rice-Davies applies.

Comments? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 12:08, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Slash or solidus
Unicode: U+002F / SOLIDUS (/)
I think you could also remove the extra symbols from the current infobox, it looks like it is slightly better for instance it does not have both the words "Related" and "see also" in it. IMHO this should be done in almost all existing uses of this inbox, random Unicode decisions do not belong here. Spitzak (talk) 19:14, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Makes sense to me. I will be bold and go ahead with your suggestion. WP:BRD is available if anyone disagrees. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 21:07, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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