User talk:Doyleb23

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Hotel Costes, Etage 3.jpg

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Rooves

Thanks for your thoughts; I agree with many of your points. However, I feel that rooves is archaic, or, for some people, a mistake that assumes roof should be pluralized in the same way as hoof. In any event, rooves is missing from many good dictionaries, such as Cambridge International (I think even Kiwis are allowed to use that one), so what is the point of having rooves in WP, except in quotations? Many readers will be thrown by this spelling and/or pronunciation , and that's not the purpose of an encyclopedia; the fewer bumps in the road, the better. Nor is the purpose of WP to allow editors to see how close they can skate to the thin edge of the ice. If you think about the readers of WP, it's a pretty simple decision to use roofs, which is clearly the universally accepted form of the word. Chris the speller (talk) 15:41, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You are getting rather carried away by the precise wording of my edit summary; it was meant as an indicator to editors who are reviewing changes to WP so they can decide if closer inspection is necessary, not as an essay. In general, WP should use the better form of a word; everybody understands what roofs are. If you feel that rooves should appear in "Nouns with multiple plurals", I don't object; I did, however, object to its being listed in the section that implied that the two forms were equivalent or of equal merit. Chris the speller (talk) 01:37, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]