Talk:war of attrition

RFD discussion: June–September 2018

The following information passed a request for deletion (permalink).

This discussion is no longer live and is left here as an archive. Please do not modify this conversation, but feel free to discuss its conclusions.

---

war of attrition

WF created this already knowing somebody would RFD it. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 04:08, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Once upon a time I started automatically deleting WF entries that were just rfdef, so he started putting cites in. The only thing WF ever reads is the back page of the Sun where it says "GO ON MY SUN: KANE SMASHES BALL INTO NET". So now he creates stupid "figurative sports language" entries of this kind. This is a hugely common phrase but the meaning is pretty obvious from the parts (cf. "war of espionage", "war of stealth"). So weak delete. Equinox ◑ 04:13, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

In other WF news I wish to thank the IP who finally bit the bullet today and removed WF's "woman who microwaved a kitten" citation from the kitten entry. Where can we get IPs who want to add citations? Equinox ◑ 04:14, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

In this case rfdef was replaced by Semper. There's plenty of "war of" entries though, abstain for now. DonnanZ (talk) 08:04, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Oh my, LOL! That has only just been removed! --Harmonicaplayer (talk) 08:09, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

And from now on I'll endeavour to add a wider range of quotes. The Telegraph's sports articles are never as well-written as the Guardian's. --Harmonicaplayer (talk) 08:09, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

• Delete as SoP. — SGconlaw (talk) 07:03, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

• Keep, despite bad-faith creation. A very common collocation which might well be considered a set phrase. Ƿidsiþ 19:08, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
• Keep per WT:LEMMING: in oxforddictionaries.com[1] and dictionary.cambridge.org[2]. Note, however, that the dictionaries have a somewhat different definition. --Dan Polansky (talk) 11:50, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
• Keep per above. The definition we have is not one I'm familiar with. I've only ever heard of the one given by the two dictionaries Dan links to. I don't think "war of attrition" is truly deducible from "war" and "attrition." None of the definitions we have for the latter cover the specific sense used in the phrase. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 16:38, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Keep per DP (changed from abstain). DonnanZ (talk) 10:04, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

Keep per Andrew Sheedy. John Cross (talk) 07:59, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Kept. Per utramque cavernam 10:11, 4 September 2018 (UTC)