Talk:If (preposition)

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Proposal to split[edit]

This article would be better retitled "If (pair of syntax-related homonyms)". Such a title would of course be more conspicuously ill-suited to an encyclopedia, but a lot less misleading than "If (conjunction)", whose purported subject "isn't a thing".

Far better, the article should be split into "If (preposition)" and "If (subordinator)".

If "If (conjunction)" is split, what should happen to it? It could be moved to either If (preposition)" or "If (subordinator) -- and one might as well toss a coin to decide -- but with no redirect. Whichever it isn't moved to would be the recipient of material taken out from the old article. There are so very few articles that link to "If (conjunction)" that each link could and should be edited, whether to the preposition or to the subordinator article. (Links from non-articles can be ignored. The article Philippians 2 has a rare and rather surprising example: from the word "conditional" within "Meyer notes Paul's use of 'four stimulative elements', which are assumed to apply and are not conditional".)

Comments? (Brett?) -- Hoary (talk) 23:13, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support Brett (talk) 23:37, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the quick reply, Brett. All done! -- Hoary (talk) 00:27, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]