Talk:Onanism

Merge?

Why is this its own page? Isn’t this just a synonym for Masturbation? Yeah, yeah, I know, T:NO RW, and all that, but doesn’t this fall under the “opaque blender clause”? I mean, from this logic surely we should also have separate pages for Wanking, Touching oneself, etc. NightmareofEden ☎ 22:21, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

I'm not sure what you think the "opaque blender" clause is, not that such a thing is resolved, since that's still an open thread that hasn't been resolved. Najawin ☎ 22:23, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Leaving aside that you clearly do know what I mean if you’re aware what thread I’m referring to, I was just following what Scrooge cited in Talk:Hatbox, which itself refers back to an older thread. NightmareofEden ☎ 22:33, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Ah. Different thing. There's an "opaque blender" objection I've made about how writing articles for things even as small as simple verb choices is highly dependent on RW context that we can't assume, and the "blender" exception, is that we have to name everything something so we can call blenders blenders, even if they're not named that in universe. Najawin ☎ 22:40, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

ah, I see. I was in fact aware of both, just must have got them mixed up in my head. In any case, I feel I should circle back around the the point I initially made about this probably needing to be merged since we don’t usually have pages for simple synonyms. NightmareofEden ☎ 22:46, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

I agree that they should be merged but made a new page for this given that, when I added a merge tag for cannabis and marijuana, Shambala said "until we have confirmation they are the same, they will not be merged". I'd support a change of policy. Jack "BtR" Saxon ☎ 22:48, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Jack's position is my own. I believe policy is to keep them separate given a statement like this. Is it somewhat silly? Yeah. But it is what it is. Najawin ☎ 22:52, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Ah. Well, if this is to be consistently enforced, this may in fact necessitate the SPLITTING of many of our pages. For example, do any stories actually state that, for example, Farting and Flatulence are one and the same? Because the latter currently redirects to the former, yet, as pointed out on that page's talk page, none of the DWU references to "flatulence" actually identify what it IS. NightmareofEden ☎ 23:05, 18 January 2021 (UTC)