Talk:Numpty

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"Numpty" appeared as a made-up word entered in 2005 when students at the University of South Florida were assigned homework involving creating made-up words and posting dictionary articles about them to Wikipedia to promote their made-up meanings. In the discussion of the inadvertent vandalism (if those words can be used together), Apwoolrich entered this side comment:


 * "May be coincidence but Numpty is a dialect term in the UK. I know a lady who was born in Northamptonshire who uses it regulary to describe someone who is a bit thick (as in dim witted)." 

The note on the deletion of the talk page1 included this from Crazfulla: "This word is verified via the external link given. You could ask any scottish person as to it's origin." Gee. Wonder what the external link was?

If this is true there needs to be referenced information here; if not the empty entry needs to be removed. Even so the entry may need to be transwikied to Wiktionary. 


 * 15:57, 25 August 2007 (UTC) wcf Facts are stubborn. Comments?

1 Why delete the talk page without deleting the article page????

Definition
Derek Walker —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.3.137.174 (talk) 02:10, 26 March 2008 (UTC) The article is dead wrong on origin. NUMPTY has been around since the 1700`s at least. It is British in origin, and means a complete dumbass.

numpty?
word used to describe reporters that work for the colchester evening gazette! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.22.39.237 (talk) 05:12, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Edit please
Another protected redirect to wiktionary that doesn't work properly. Please change the template to and then we should be fine. Thanks. Cool3 (talk) 16:07, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 18 December 2015
Add

Qwertyxp2000 (talk &#124; contribs) 19:37, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Sarah-Jane (talk) 19:55, 19 December 2015 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 26 December 2015
The comment on this locked page is not long enough to prevent it from being listed on Special:Shortpages. Please replace it with:

Dcirovic (talk) 23:34, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: {{subst:Long comment}} is used on articles smaller than about 120 characters. Here we have currently have 203 characters not counting spaces. Sam Sailor Talk! 12:08, 27 December 2015 (UTC)

Move to wiktionary?
It seems like a definition to me, not a page. Also, strangely, the page is uncategorized. And doesn't having a "Trivia" section go against Wikipedia standards? CodemWiki (talk) 19:16, 7 March 2023 (UTC)