Talk:Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

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Needs to meet WT:CFI#Fictional universes. I advocate doing a good search before RFVing, and generally do so, but am not doing so on this one, as I suspect its creator of adding it as part of a whole bunch added without regard for the CFI, and I don't want to spend the time searching.​—msh210℠ (talk) 21:02, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cited. DAVilla 10:34, 1 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
How do things like "as silent as The Ghost of..." count? I can find a book that says "every bit as exciting as Agatha Christie"; does a majority of contributors seriously think that this means Agatha Christie needs an entry in a DICTIONARY? This place is like some horrible nightmare lately. Equinox ◑ 18:35, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Because it is independent of reference to that universe, used out of context in an attributive sense, as CFI requires.
No, Agatha Christie does not originate from a fictional universe, and if this vote is any clarification, her full name would not be allowed... unless of course it came to mean something else, like Arnold Palmer defined as a drink.
If desired we could find some criterion to apply to such proper nouns, fictional or otherwise, and a stronger one than this. DAVilla 09:54, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Regardless, the definitions for all of these "Ghost of..." entries are dubious. They merely give a description of the ghost itself, rather than actually defining what the phrase is actually supposed to mean. ---> Tooironic 11:22, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]


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