Talk:border guard

Agency versus Person

The idiom "border guard" is a person. An Agency named "Border Guard" would be a Proper Noun and require a separate entry at Wiktionary. IQ125 (talk) 14:00, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

RFD discussion: November–December 2015

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border guard

I'd say that the definition is slightly inaccurate and quite misleading; it's just a guard at a border. Judging by the lemmings, the only other dictionary at OneLook Dictionary Search to have an entry for this is Collins. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 00:24, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

The definition may be better now. Donnanz (talk) 11:01, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

• Delete, one of those things that 'topically important' but lexically it's a [[border]] [[guard]]. Renard Migrant (talk) 12:49, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
• Comment. Not sure about this one, but at the very least it is a common collocation. ---> Tooironic (talk) 04:24, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
• Keep. It doesn't mean a guard for any other type of border, just in the sense of frontier. Donnanz (talk) 10:44, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
• Keep - translation target. --Hekaheka (talk) 23:28, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

Border guard is also the agency which employs these persons. --Hekaheka (talk) 23:28, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

• Delete. If someone is guarding a border, they are a border guard, regardless of what kind of border it is. The fact that not all types of borders need to have guards does not change that. --WikiTiki89 01:01, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
• Keep. Technically, any person who guards a property against trespassers is guarding the "border" of that property, and even a police officer designated to prevent undesirables from crossing city limits or county lines is guarding a border, but these would not be called border guards. bd2412 T 01:57, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
• Keep. Translation target. Defined in Collins dictionary. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 04:30, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Border guard is a profession, too. Ice hockey player, tennis player and various other players have been kept on that ground. --Hekaheka (talk) 11:23, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

• Strong Keep: This idiom is often used to describe people that protect a border. This idiom should not have been nominated for deletion. Any security agency that uses the proper noun, "Border Guard" should be capitalized and would require a separate entry in Wiktionary. IQ125 (talk) 13:48, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Kept. bd2412 T 02:12, 13 December 2015 (UTC)