Talk:fag marriage

Deletion discussion

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fag marriage

lacking any etymology, there is no usage outside of a few quotes from people of negligible importance.Two kinds of pork (talk) 16:08, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

The etymology is transparent. The importance of the people whom the cites come from is irrelevant. The only real question is whether this is sum of parts or idiomatic. Since gay marriage and same-sex marriage have both already survived RFDs, we've already decided that they are idiomatic. If they are, this is. So keep. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 16:50, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Keep. We have gay marriage and same-sex marriage as Angr pointed out. This is arguably more idiomatic, since the citations suggest it's used broadly to refer to all same-sex marriages, not just male-male marriages, as a literal interpretation of the term's components would suggest. -Cloudcuckoolander (talk) 18:43, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

@both of ^^^, I agree GM and SSM are idiomatic. The terms are in the vernacular. But unlike the puerile suggestions of mine (that became definitions!), FM is anything but, now nor ever in the past. Seems a low bar to merit a definition, akin to Wikipedia's notability principle. It's usage is practically non existent. But I'm new here so I acknowledge I might not have considered other reasons.Two kinds of pork (talk) 05:55, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

If it is not SoP, then the rules of WT:CFI are applied. If it meets those criteria, it is kept. In a nutshell, if the term is used in durably archived media such as printed books, and three citations can be found that span at least a one year, then it is kept. You feel that it should not be included because it is too rare, but it only needs to be used three times. We do not limit ourselves to common terms, but we also include rare terms, antiquated terms, and obsolete terms. —Stephen ^(Talk) 06:31, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

I consider this (and gay marriage, which I think already passed a discussion) to be SoP. I would like this entry gone, but I don't agree with the deletion rationale since, as Stephen says, there are sufficient citations available. Equinox ◑ 16:22, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

I would delete as not meeting WT:CFI#Idiomaticity. Gay marriage and same-sex marriage don't meet WT:CFI#Idiomaticity either but majority decisions count more here than WT:CFI. Renard Migrant (talk) 17:14, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

Kept. bd2412 T 02:01, 26 August 2014 (UTC)