Talk:Gameboy

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Trademark - used attributively, as capitalized-only version? If so, then we shouldn't have the Trademark version here. If not, then it doesn't meet CFI, and we shouldn't have it here. --Connel MacKenzie 08:50, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

This could be generic, I don't know about attributive. Delete the rest DAVilla 18:44, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I've added a generic noun sense and a couple of citations. Weak keep. SemperBlotto 17:10, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

I tend to think we should keep this and some of the others. Rationale is not that they meet CFI (they don't), but that I have more than once pointed out to a gamer eager to see some neologism added to the wikt that we do have these entries, and we're happy to look at any others if/when they are established. (As indeed we would, if they move past being protologisms.) Robert Ullmann 12:06, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

• Strong keep. I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and I think we need to revamp our approach to trademarks and trade names. Where a word is widely known (even if solely by commercial efforts) it can have meaning that relates to presumptions that we might make about the person with whom the word is connected. For example, "Joe, lost in his Gameboy, was oblivious to the world" would describe a very different person from "Joe, lost in his library book, was oblivious to the world". bd2412 T 13:54, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
  • That would be gameboy, not Gameboy. Delete. --Connel MacKenzie 15:39, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

The two citations provided don't show that. This is just promotion. --Connel MacKenzie 19:57, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

• Re-listed from December 2006. --Connel MacKenzie 04:53, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Weak keep, if the generic use can be established, but otherwise, toss it. ArielGlenn 21:23, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

More resolved now. Strong keep as the proper entity, though misspelled, and in the lower-case as the generic, with the option to RFV if you doubt the claim. DAVilla 18:58, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Additional citations:

1. Meg Cabot, Reunion (2005) Page 39:
   • “Let me know if you hear anything more about those kids.” “Yes, yes,” Father Dominic said, his attention riveted to the Gameboy once again.
2. Michael Nava, The Death of Friends: A Henry Rios Mystery (2004) Page 192:
   • “I left my Gameboy,” he said. “Your Honor, for the record a Gameboy is—” The judge cut me off, saying dryly, “I know what a Gameboy is, Mr. Rios. My husband's addicted to his.
3. Peter Smith, Two of Us: The Story of a Father, a Son, and the Beatles (2004) - Page 83:
   • Sam maxed out on his thirty-minute Gameboy limit.
4. Julie Anne Peters, Define Normal (2000) - Page 56:
   • While I put on Chuckie's seat belt in the backseat, Michael strapped himself in. When his eyes met mine, he smiled. Then he turned on his Gameboy.
5. Patrick Sheane Duncan, Courage Under Fire (1996) - Page 91:
   • Major Donald Teegarden, a tanned, balding man with a blond mustache and blue eyes that broadcast an immediate amiability, was playing a Gameboy with a Captain Byers.
   • ...
   • "Sure thing," Teegarden replied easily. Byers continued with the Gameboy, ignoring the two men.
6. Mark Victor, Jack L. Hansen, Jack L. Canfield, Diana Von Welanetz Wentworth, Chicken Soup for the Soul Cookbook: 101 Stories with Recipes from the Heart (1995) Page 335:
   • I came home the other night after my writing class to find my husband Ted in bed, playing Gameboy with a very satisfied look on his face.

Cheers! bd2412 T 21:15, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

RFV discussion

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"Any of several hand-held interactive electronic toys." In the absence of evidence to the contrary, I would suggest that all existing citations refer to the Nintendo Game Boy®. Equinox ◑ 21:30, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

RFV failed per nom, entry moved redirectlessly to Citations:Gameboy. (That said, Gameboy may meet WT:BRAND. See Talk:Gameboy for some citations found by BD2412 (talk • contribs).) —Ruakh_TALK 16:07, 20 September 2010 (UTC)