Talk:bullet list

RFD discussion: September 2022–January 2023

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bullet list

bulleted list for send for deletion above, so I think this should be treated together. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:52, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

• Keep: terminologically useful. Equinox even argued this does not mean bulleted list, but it seems to mean just that, and how should one know that, being a non-native speaker? This kind of entry is very useful for non-native speakers, to affirm things that have been discussed and verified to be the case, viz that it does mean bulleted list. If "bullet list" would naturally mean "a list of bullets", then this is not sum of parts. And if this gets kept and bulleted list will get deleted, we will need to host translations on a somewhat less common term bullet list, perhaps even one that is sometimes proscribed. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:52, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
• Keep and improve definition. I have definitely seen a verbal list of important things without actual "bullets" (in the sense of typographic dots) being described as a bullet list. For example, 2011, Walt Mueller, Yesterday I Stepped Into a Time Machine: "She started to rattle off a bullet list of stuff with words and descriptors that I could never find in book"; 2016, BPP Learning Media, ACCA P1 Governance, Risk and Ethics, p. 329: "If a question asks candidates to describe or explain, a bullet list of points is not an appropriate response". bd2412 T 03:40, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

  That's just a creative figurative use of the main sense, isn't it? It could be added as a 2nd sense if lexicalized enough; are 3 quotations evidence enough of lexicalization of figurative use? I don't think "bullet list" out of context is ambiguous about whether the list is part of printed matter or part of speech: it is part of printed or written matter or displayed, etc. The broader definition would be just "list", with no differentia? To have "list" as the sole definition makes no sense.

  If the more common synonym bulleted list gets deleted, someone should restore bullet list with a definition and translations that I moved to the main entry. --Dan Polansky (talk) 07:36, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

  I think it is significant that "bullet list" is used in this idiomatic way, while "bulleted list" is not. bd2412 T 06:46, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

• RFD-kept: no consensus for deletion (WT:VPRFD). --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:03, 4 January 2023 (UTC)