Board Thread:Help Desk/@comment-5754239-20140527030432/@comment-5754239-20140528003714

I appreciate your appreciation, Beestenboel. Just for the benefit of your (and anyone else's) knowledge, an indefinite article is a noun that isn't definitive, or specific. For example, "A bobcat ran across the plain" uses "a bobcat" (an indefinite article) because it refers to any bobcat that could have existed...ever. Saying "The bobcat" uses the definite article the, which makes the sentence refer to a specific or particular bobcat (like a particular bobcat ran across the plain to chase prey, for example). I'm not an English teacher, so I'd recommend checking out Purdue OWL (from Purdue University) for a tutorial if you don't catch my meaning.

To anyone that asks, indefinite nouns (non-specific nouns) relate to both of these discussions is because we shouldn't name a page "Cheese Ball" just because Hay Day says so. There can be several "cheese balls" in existence and "Cheese Ball" isn't a name in this case. On the flip side, we shouldn't name it "Cheese balls" because (first of all) it is possible for there to be one cheese ball at a time and because we can't have every single page be plural. Gregs would be an interesting page name, don't you think?

~ironwestie (talk) 00:37, May 28, 2014 (UTC)