I added these tags and a link to Wiktionary today. This article needs at least a general, first paragraph with a concise definition. --Thorsen08:47, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Does anyone have any statistics to back up "Classically the wish provider is typically a spirit, jinni or similar entity." or "The template for most fictional wishes is"? Goldfritha03:05, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I started out just making tiny changes like fixing comma splices and adding omitted letters or words. But then I got an idea or two for reorg'ing the thing, that I think I can justify:
I took out the notes on the linguistics of how a past tense verb can be used to refer to the future. I don't think its relevance justified putting it in there, at least not in the unorganized and verbose form it was in. The point of that section is that if a genie made the wisher rich in the past but no longer rich the wish would have been fulfilled. So the way this issue was presented was not helpful to the article, maybe just a link to a page about linguistics and semantics would suffice, in a short explanatory sentence.
I made a section for "Wishes in Popular Culture" because it seemed like there were too many examples given in the body. They are good examples, but I think this is a better way to organize them all. Besides, the two paragraphs about the base number of wishes and the possibility for infinite wishes flow nicely together now.
