User talk:HMSmith32

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HMSmith32, good luck, and have fun. --Hoary (talk) 02:33, 6 January 2012 (UTC)

the Webster dictionary
You wrote:


 * The term "santorum" as defined by a "Google" search is not referenced in the Webster dictionary and therefore, cannot be considered as a real term.

This was probably meant well, but:
 * You are presenting your own argument here. It's not encyclopedic.
 * "The Webster dictionary" is meaningless: any dictionary can use "Webster" in its name, and, notoriously, many do.
 * The meaning of "the term [whatever] as defined by a 'Google' search" is unclear.
 * Plenty of real terms do not appear in dictionaries. As an example, "antiparallelogram", which indubitably exists but doesn't even appear in the (enormous) OED and may well not appear in any "Webster" dictionary either.

Please make sure that your edits conform to Wikipedia policies and guidelines. -- Hoary (talk) 02:33, 6 January 2012 (UTC)