Talk:Gnu

You mean they don't have hooves?

What does ungulate mean?

I liked my entry better. It may have been wrong and unscientific, but I could understand it! :-)))

"Ungulate" is a more precise category that roughly corresponds to "hooved". Yes, this text is a little less colloquial, but when all the links have ends on them, it will be more useful and educational. I don't know if we have a template yet for living things, but we probably should at some point.

You're right, it will be better. But I do think entries should be as useful as possible to nonspecialists, and that means introducing jargon with nonjargon whenever possible. E.g., you could say: "...are hooved animals (ungulates)..." and that would be a distinct improvement.

Well, it depends on how short a gloss we're talking about. If it's a brief gloss, why not include it? It will help the reader, who can follow the link in order to learn more. It isn't easy to get through an article by "looking up" what one doesn't understand by clicking through to all jargon. Of course, you don't want to reproduce the contents of every related article in any given article; but you do want to explain at least roughly what needs to be explained in order to get through the material at hand without trouble. For another example, see affirming the consequent and its link to conditional.

Snoyes.... how about making this a redirect to GNU and having the wildebeest def on top as a shortie..-'''&#35918&#30505


 * Sorry didn't see this talk entry before changeing it back. Isn't it normal wikipedia style to have a disambiguation page on the term that is actually ambiguous. IMHO "Gnu" is ambiguous for the project and the animal whereas "GNU" is clearly just the project. WDYT? --snoyes 05:12 Mar 4, 2003 (UTC)

Yeah, but that pedantic in this case, since the other "gnu" is just a bite... see chinese... -'''&#35918&#30505

Why can't Gnu just redirect to Wildebeest, which already has a disambiguation line? If you remove the GPL via the criteria at WP:DAB, you only have two entries, one of which is (was) already covered at Wildebeest. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Alph Tech STUART (talk • contribs).
 * I don't know, I was only doing housekeeping. This can all be undone; no need to be upset about it. enochlau (talk) 23:28, 26 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Would anyone object if I changed this page back to a redirect to Wildebeest until such time as there are more than two substantive things known as gnu?
 * The vast majority of people have only heard of the animal, which is really where any link should go. The song isn't just called Gnu AFAICC (but The Gnu song, The Gnu or I'm a Gnu).  Although the OS is correctly GNU, it is occasionally referred to as Gnu and users may have heard of it in a non-case-sensitive context, so it should be disambiguated on Wildebeest.  People occasionally do say gnu meaning the GNU Project, but that could be easily added to the disambiguating hatnote if necessary (which I doubt it is as this should be explained on GNU with an appropriate link much better than in a hatnote).
 * Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley talk contrib 16:20, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * No objection to redirecting to Wildebeest. In most cases, the original concept takes precedence over the computing term derived from it: Java goes to the island, C goes to the letter of the alphabet, and Lisp goes to the speech impediment, for example. Scheme is one counterexample, but that's because any article on the word "scheme" itself would just be a dicdef, and there's no real sensible redirect target there. cab 06:48, 18 June 2007 (UTC)