Wordaq

Charter

The rules under which Wordaq accepts, numbers and publishes a filing. They apply to every entry on record, including the ones filed before you read this.

  1. Article 1

    One filing for each term

    A term may be registered once. Two terms are treated as the same term when they reduce to the same form after case, accents, surrounding punctuation and repeated spacing are removed, so lunovar, Lunovar and lúnovar cannot be filed separately.

    Where two people arrive at the same term independently, the register records the earlier filing. It does not adjudicate which of them invented it first.

  2. Article 2

    Filings are permanent

    An entry cannot be edited, transferred or withdrawn once it is filed. The registry does not remove an entry at the author's request, and does not correct spelling, definitions or attribution after the fact.

    The review screen shows the entry exactly as it will be published. It is the last point at which anything can be changed.

  3. Article 3

    The registry records authorship, not ownership

    An entry is a record that a named person submitted a term to this registry at a stated time. It is not a trademark, not a copyright and not a claim of any kind over the use of the term by anyone else.

    The registry asserts nothing about whether a term was in use before it was filed.

  4. Article 4

    Numbers are issued in sequence and never reused

    Registry numbers are issued in the order filings are accepted, and every number is permanent. A number withdrawn from publication is not reissued to another entry. The first 1,000 numbers are founder filings and are marked as such wherever they appear.

    Every filing is timestamped in UTC, and that timestamp is the official record regardless of where the author filed from.

  5. Article 5

    Filings may be held for review

    A filing that appears to name or target a real person or group may be held for review instead of being published. Held filings keep their number while under review.

    The creative insult category exists for invention, not for abuse of real people.

  6. Article 6

    What the register publishes

    An entry publishes five things and nothing more: the term, its definition, the author's name as given, the registry number and the exact time of filing. The language and category recorded with a filing appear in the archive rather than on the entry.

    The email address given at filing is held for correspondence about the filing and is never published.

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