Talk:Anthropod

This article was nominated for deletion on 10 August 2014 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

Misspelling

Anthropod is a common misspelling of Arthropod and Anthropoid. Unfortunately, the misspelling template allows only one lemma to redirect, so I decided to choose arthropod. --Dein Freund der Baum (talk) 14:02, 1 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't Anthropod more than just a misspelling? Cf. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anthropod Mister se (talk) 07:22, 25 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wiktionary is not an authoritative source; it's crowd-sourced like Wikipedia, and anyone can make up any word and definition they want. The only "reference" listed on Wiktionary's definition page is a link back to this Wikipedia page. Searching "books.google.com" a bit, the only use of the term "anthropod" I found were as misspellings (or perhaps mis-optical-character-recognitions) of the term "arthropod".

My impression is that this is not a recognized word, and more commonly a misspelling of arthropod than anthropoid. I'm going to make this a disambiguation page pointing to both terms, and while I can't cite a reliable source for my impression, the lack of any reliable source to the contrary seems adequate to make the claim.

--Agyle (talk) 09:19, 29 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I read up on the MOS's recommendations for disambiguation pages, and while the version I made ignores some advice, I'd point to the section Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Disambiguation_pages#When_to_break_Wikipedia_rules as a rationale. I think in cases of really common misspellings, which are ambiguous, disambiguation is reasonable, though an argument could certainly be made for having no article, to let a "search not found" handler automatically provide alternatives.

--Agyle (talk) 10:44, 29 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]