Talk:Standing
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"This is a verb" no, 'standing' is a noun, meaning 'to stand'. Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 16:34, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
- Like, I seriously can't comprehend the idea that "I stood next to a monument" (for example) wouldn't belong on "Standing". Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 16:36, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
- How is standing a noun? Standing is not a noun. It is the present participle form of the verb. Aquanafrahudy 📢 🖊️ 16:37, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
- And a thing one can do is a verb. I do not believe that those other pages were created within the boundaries of policy either, and think they should be deleted. Aquanafrahudy 📢 🖊️ 16:42, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
- Right, well we definitely have strongly opposing opinions, because at a minimum "running" is a fairly important element of Doctor Who (like, the show itself, even ignoring the EU). Cookieboy 2005 ☎ 16:44, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
- "Standing" and "stand" are nouns, certainly, but I'm not sure either of them is synonymous with the verb "to stand". You can speak about someone's standing; you can talk about taking a moral stand. Both of those are nouns. But a page based on an instance of the latter probably wouldn't justify listing instances of the verb where someone "stands up" from a sitting position, nor indeed "stands for Parliament" or refuses to "stand for this". It's not the same meaning, even if they're all related. This all seems to me to expose the limits of extending these things too far.
- "Running" is grammatically a noun in "Running is an activity", though. That's fine. But in this case I think you'd need an actual instance of the noun "Standing" in that specific sense (e.g. "Standing around is an activity I dislike"), as distinct from the above. --Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 16:55, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
