Talk:Constable
Latest comment: 7 months ago by PUC in topic RFD discussion: July–October 2023
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Rfd-sense (informal) A painting by John Constable. Do we have a rule about these? We can't possibly want them, but the attributive noun thing is specifically about hyphenated forms... - TheDaveRoss 18:37, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
- Delete, I think. This is just a type of metonymy, and applies to an infinite class of words—“an Austen” for a book by Jane Austen, “Tarantinos” for films by Quentin Tarantino, and so on. — Sgconlaw (talk) 19:55, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
- Delete, this is standard for works of art (though not common - if used at all - for other media as Sgconlaw suggests), and could be applied to the works of any visual artist. Not something that needs to be individually lexicalised for every single artist. This, that and the other (talk) 01:18, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
- Note that there are a lot of entries with similar senses: Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh, just from trying random famous painters, and I know I've seen others. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 22:59, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
- Delete. Perhaps our policies don't explicitly exclude these, but including all of them would be untenable and undesirable. — excarnateSojourner (talk · contrib) 00:21, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
- Delete. Kiwima (talk) 23:04, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
- Keep per Al-Muqanna. Binarystep (talk) 23:25, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
- Delete per above. ·~ dictátor·mundꟾ 18:05, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
Sense deleted. PUC – 15:44, 1 October 2023 (UTC)