Talk:Passerelle

Dict-def removal

   The Dab page i found was a lot like what is called an attractive nuisance -- which is not reason for its deletion, but does point up the need for extra attention. For instance, it has attracted two dictdefs

• passerelle, also a gangplank or platform used to board or leave a large yacht. Passerelles come in either transom, rotating or extending box form.

• In a theatre, a passerelle is a semicircular ramp or catwalk that extends from the stage around the orchestra pit.

so obscure that

1. my print dictionaries, including Webster's Second, fail to support them, and
2. they got into wikt only by being copied from the accompanying Dab page.

   Dab pages may not have entries based on dictdefs, but only entries for articles (and articles IMO should not be created by those lacking a good-faith belief that verifiable, more-than-dictdef content is available).
--Jerzy•t 04:25, 25 March 2015 (UTC)

Dab "See also" items

   The article Passerelle (Luxembourg) asserts that the object it has as its topic is routinely called "(T/t)he Passerelle", which (barring challenges) suffices to make it a candidate for the title Passerelle and one of the pre-"See also" entries of the Dab titled either Passerelle or Passerelle (disambiguation)
   IMO La Passerelle (newspaper) has the same status, since "(L/l)a" plays such a definite-article role in one of the languages that lend sufficiently many terms to modern English discourse for its grammatical articles to be widely recognizable as playing those roles.
   Conversely, the bridges of Paris that include "Passerelle" as part of their names probably are quite seldom referred to as "Passerelle", and also no one of them could reasonably be the topic of an article bearing the title "Passerelle", even if there were no articles for the others, nor even other topics that involve the instances of things called passerelles.
--Jerzy•t 04:25, 25 March 2015 (UTC)