MOS talk:ETY

Purpose

What's the purpose of this redirect and MOS:Ety? Is it short for "etymology"? But the target page doesn't talk about etymology... maybe it did in the past. Also in that case, a non-abbreviated version MOS:ETYMOLOGY should probably be created. — W.andrea (talk) 21:11, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I found hints from what links here:

If the original language uses a non-Latin alphabet, the orthography should be surrounded by two straight single quotation marks (vertical apostrophes) '' before and after to avoid automatic italicizing (see MOS:Ety)
— Template:Etymology

Foreign terms in a non-Latin alphabet should not be italicized (MOS:Ety), so there needs to be a way to specify non-italicization for Greek and Arabic etymons, for example
— Erutuon 22:01, 6 March 2012 (UTC) in Template talk:Etymology § Italicization of non-Latin alphabets

— W.andrea (talk) 21:57, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If that's what these redirects are meant for, I suggest any use of them should be replaced with MOS:BADITALICS, where it says:

Text in non-Latin scripts (such as Greek, Cyrillic or Chinese) should neither be italicized as non-English nor bolded

— W.andrea (talk) 22:00, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just checked: the versions at the time when the redirects were created on April 7th, 2011, and February 11th, 2013, didn't mention etymology. But that was and is a common place where terms in a non-Latin alphabet would be used in random non-linguistic articles. — Eru·tuon 23:01, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]