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:''Wikipedia official policy: [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary]]''

'''Note: please do not add any new requests to this page. If you would like to report a dictionary definition, simply tag the article with {{tl|Copy to Wiktionary}}''' {{small|(deleted by [[Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2021 September 24#Template:Copy to Wiktionary|a 2021 TfD]])}}'''. See [[Wikipedia:Things to be moved to Wiktionary#Marking dictionary articles|marking dictionary articles]] below for how to correctly tag an article.'''


[[:Category:Copy to Wiktionary]] contains a list of dictionary articles that are candidates for moving to the transwiki namespace of Wiktionary via the [[m:transwiki|transwiki process]].  This is a [[Wikipedia:maintenance|maintenance]] page that contains other listings. We would like help resolving the old entries below.

When you move an article, make sure that you do not break any [[hyperlinks]]. Consider copying rather than moving to avoid these complications. Put links from the Wikipedia article to the Wiktionary article and back.

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== Actively avoiding dictionary articles ==
You can help prevent the creation of dictionary articles (and the resulting wasted effort) by:

*[[Wiktionary:Wiktionary:Searching|searching Wiktionary]] for existing dictionary articles ''before'' creating new articles on Wikipedia
*[[Help:Interwiki linking|using interwiki links]] to link from Wikipedia articles to Wiktionary articles if you want to link to articles about words, or to Wiktionary categories if you want to link to lists of definitions of words
*ensuring that any hyperlinks that you create in articles follow the [[Wikipedia:Article titles|naming conventions]] in what they point to, in particular with regard to linking to [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (plurals)|singulars instead of plurals]], linking to [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (adjectives)|nouns instead of adjectives]], and linking to [[Wikipedia:Naming conventions (verbs)|the gerunds of verbs]].

== Marking dictionary articles ==<!-- This section is linked from [[Wikipedia:Things to be moved to Wiktionary]] -->
If you find a dictionary article please [[Wiktionary:Wiktionary:Searching|search Wiktionary]] to see whether a dictionary entry already exists in Wiktionary.  If it does, please consider turning the Wikipedia article into a [[Wikipedia:soft redirect|soft redirect]], or turning the Wikipedia article into an adjective&rarr;noun or verb&rarr;gerund [[Wikipedia:redirect|redirect]].

If you find a dictionary article which belongs in Wiktionary, [[m:transwiki|transwiki]] it!  If you can't perform the transwikification yourself, it is suggested that you add the <tt><nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Copy to Wiktionary|Copy to Wiktionary]]}}</tt> tag to the article.

This marks the pages so that future viewers will see that it needs to be moved, and adds the article to [[:Category:Copy to Wiktionary]].
 
== Old requests ==
This page originally contained a list of articles proposed for transwikiing. To view these old requests, see
* [[/Archive 1]] for old moot entries from before June 22, 2005.
* [[/Archive 2]] for all entries from June 23, 2005 until this page's deprecation.