Talk:Abbreviation
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Table at #Periods (full stops) and spaces
I reverted an edit by Davism0703, not because I decided that they are wrong, but only because the table has been stable for many months and the edit seemed to conflict with the sources (which I have not consulted). So time for a WP:BRD discussion.
As a general principle, we don't try to tell readers what to do but rather what exists and what is the evidence for it. To take a specific example, the abbreviation of Doctor, the text documents the existence of both "Dr" and "Dr." (with a suggestion of WP:ENVAR)Template:Snd so which style should go in the table? We need to resolve. We could just delete the table (my preferred solution, tbh) or somehow extend it to give two columns called maybe "Main" and "Alternative" with citations for each?
Suggestions? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 11:49, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
German
Enters DeAkuWa = Deutscher Abkürzungswahn, German abbreviation mania. Unfortunately OPSE doesn't find any occurrence, but I think I have it from the Spiegel. (OPSE = Our Preferred Search Engine) 2003:F5:6F19:1400:D38:DF3C:B69B:D2ED (talk) 19:45, 31 May 2021 (UTC) Marco PB
Abbreviations using the number of characters
Maybe abbreviations of the form first-letter number-of-characters-inbetween last-letter should be included? Exampels include "internationalization" -> "i18n", "localization" -> "l10n", "Kubernetes" -> "k8s". Might be hard to find citations though. Holzklöppel (talk) 18:16, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
Telegraph
It seems a miss that the history section doesn't mention telegraphy at all. You might say morse keyers were the first "textese" users. Morse code abbreviations. 17:20, 6 September 2022 (UTC) Keith D. Tyler ¶ 17:20, 6 September 2022 (UTC)