I think this article is deeply misguided - does anyone need to be told that one says 'a team of football players'. Conversely, there are some things which are not proper collective nouns - 'a freakshow of emos' for example. I vote this article should be pruned right down. 82.110.248.146 17:10, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
"A swarm of nanites" "A basement of vampires" "An itself of Yahwehs" "The Borg"
Is it citable? probably not. But funny. Hmm, yes, it's funny. Please correct: it should be "Trip: a trip of goats" instead of "Trip: a tribe o goats".
Whether this article is legitimate or not, authoritative sources must be cited. The website, "dictionary.reference.com" is in no way a standard reference for any language, much less for English. Some small effort was made, I am happy to see, to make use of Oxford, Merriam-Webster, and other legitimate sources. Perhaps references could be found in actual literature -- you know, "books"?
As to the legitimacy of this article, I have to ask why an "appendix", as such, would need to exist in this media? If this is merely a list of fanciful collective nouns, then label it such; if it contains alternative, deprecated, obscure, obsolete or otherwise supplementary entries, those entries should be included (and labelled) in corresponding articles. Articles exist, like these:
What can be done to fix this situation? (Miimno 20:01, 29 December 2010 (UTC))
The scope of this article exceeds the purpose of Wiktionary (see http://en.wiktionary.orghttps://dictious.com/en/Wiktionary:WIN). This article should be moved to Wikipedia. (Miimno 20:52, 29 December 2010 (UTC))
Looks like it might be legit, but it's not on the dictionary page, so I scratched it. DAVilla 03:00, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
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I have adding this page to RFM as a means of representing a request for moving this page to Wikipedia and deleting it from Wiktionary. The page was tagged for moving to Wikipedia in this edit, on 29 December 2010.
I oppose deleting the page from Wiktionary. As an appendix, the page hosts a list of words, which seems to fit well into a lexicographical work. --Dan Polansky 11:20, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Not moved. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:55, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
The Appendix: Glossary of Collective nouns are a whole lot better and a lot neater. It's words are in a sort of dictionaryish version. The words are in alphabetical order so I advise that you go there. The words are in one column unlike this jumble of confusion.
"rhumba: A rhumba of rattlesnakes" can't possibly be real, can it? 173.89.236.187 03:17, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
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This page used to be evidence that there was some fun left in wiktionary and wikipedia. Now that it is locked it is evidence that there is no longer fun in Wiktionary and Wikipedia.
Upon searching Google I have found the following for groups of zombies: 331 entries: "a horde of zombies" 328 entries: "a pack of zombies" 319 entries: "a mob of zombies" 305 entries: "a swarm of zombies" 285 entries: "a plague of zombies" 278 entries: "a gang of zombies" 154 entries: "an infestation of zombies" 141 entries: "a gaggle of zombies" 79 entries: "a flock of zombies" 71 entries: "an epidemic of zombies" 48 entries: "an apocalypse of zombies" 34 entries: "a stagger of zombies" 28 entries: "a pandemic of zombies" 24 entries: "a stench of zombies" jonrgrover
Heck, this is probably even "standard".
3/4 of the nouns which use 'flock' still say 'flight' for some reason ('a flight of sheep'). The collective noun immediately preceding 'flock' is 'flight', but the 'flock' examples have not been changed and I don't have permission to correct them. Nissele (talk) 17:21, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
There is an ongoing discussion (distinct from the closed RFM above) started in 2015 about merging this appendix with Appendix:Glossary of collective nouns by subject and Appendix:Glossary of collective nouns by collective term. Either {{rfm}}
or {{merge}}
should be added to the top of the page to link to this discussion (but it is edit-protected). - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 18:33, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
I have merged this appendix with the two mentioned above (keeping this appendix's prologue) and saved the result at User:ExcarnateSojourner/Collective nouns. I would appreciate if someone with the required permissions would copy the content of that page to this one. (No modifications should be necessary.) - excarnateSojourner (talk | contrib) 05:56, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
I get that this was grandfathered in, but a surely a category of individual sourced articles is better and b if we keep this there should be a note somewhere at the top that the collective nouns for animals are terms of venery. — LlywelynII 15:35, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
The protection level for this is ridiculous, especially when the article has clear issues that anyone should be allowed to fix:
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Mbartelsm (talk) 09:06, 5 November 2022 (UTC)
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(Appendix:English collective nouns is edit protected, so I can't place the template there, but I guess that would be the more sensible target location)
Redundant to each other. Both pages have serious clean-up issues, of course (has anyone ever actually called a group of cheetahs a "coalition", or is that a joke at the expense of perhaps the British coalition government? (Apparently it's in use!) Will anyone ever have need of a collective noun for Jezebels?). Smurrayinchester (talk) 13:12, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
(Added Appendix:Glossary of collective nouns by collective term - the sorting issues that led to these appendices being split would be better resolved with a sortable table). Smurrayinchester (talk) 10:55, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
Some of the nouns on the page refer to certain professionals, but there are still plenty missing. Could I suggest taking from this article in the British Medical Journal for medical professionals? 216.24.219.60 05:38, 7 July 2024 (UTC)