User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20160620203004/@comment-24894325-20160701063146

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20160620203004/@comment-24894325-20160701063146 It is true that my proposal was to make an article for an adjective meaning of "Dutch", which makes the proposal dead on arrival. I guess, then AeD's proposal wins: the modus operandi should be Dutch just like we have English and German.

This would have created a problem with inattentive editors just being happy that an article for "Dutch" exists without checking what this article is about, a problem I observed when first encountering this problem. Fortunately, the robot (IMHO) should not be named "Dutch" for more reasons than one: there is another character named Dutch, Dutch (Criss-Cross). So unless the robot is by some miracle a primary topic, both of them need to be dabbed. This way, "Dutch" would produce a red link, hopefully prompting editors to double check.

PS Sorry to be a grammar stickler, but according to Merriam-Webster, "Dutch" is also used as a noun that means "the language of the Netherlands", while "the Dutch" (in plural) means "the people of the Netherlands" by analogy with "ze Germans are coming". As I said, it doesn't really affect my proposal to make links in phrases like "Isaac Ashton was a Dutch sailor".