Talk:Old Bill
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Imetsia in topic RFD discussion: October 2020–April 2021
The following information has failed Wiktionary's deletion process (permalink).
It should not be re-entered without careful consideration.
"A cartoon character created by Bruce Bairnsfather in 1914." This is purely encyclopaedic information, not a dictionary definition. Equinox ◑ 21:15, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
Keep. Donald Duck is here, so why not? Are we low on disk space?-- Dentonius (my politics | talk) 19:23, 8 November 2020 (UTC)SemperBlotto@Cnilep, would you like to keep the entry you created?- Struck per our previous discussion. Imetsia (talk) 16:35, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
- Delete, not even close to meeting WT:FICTION. — surjection ⟨??⟩ 16:35, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
- Weak delete. This would probably be better to mention in the etymology section, as a likely origin of the slang noun senses. Glades12 (talk) 06:49, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
- I agree with Glades12. Khemehekis (talk) 16:21, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete as per Mahāgaja below and Glades12 above - better idea. (Was: The sense is referenced under sense 3 of the noun: "British slang, dated) A soldier, especially one who resembles the cartoon character.")Facts707 (talk) 14:28, 5 March 2021 (UTC) Facts707 (talk) 13:27, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
- Delete as a Proper noun entry, but add info on the cartoon character in the Etymology section, as suggested by Glades12. —Mahāgaja · talk 14:34, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- RFD-deleted. Imetsia (talk) 16:35, 2 April 2021 (UTC)