Talk:tick bite

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tick bite

"A bite made by a tick that can pass various illnesses to the bitten host."

This is something like defining a car as a "vehicle that can be used for transporting groceries." The term seems SoP as understood by normal users. DCDuring TALK 17:19, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Delete --Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 17:27, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Delete, obviously. I probably would 'a' speedily deleted it had I seen it first.​—msh210℠ (talk) 17:52, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Delete. Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV 18:07, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Delete per DCDuring. Mglovesfun (talk) 20:00, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Delete. - -sche (discuss) 00:51, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

What about the translations? —CodeCat 01:03, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Who cares?​—msh210℠ (talk) 16:04, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

The "that can pass various illnesses to the bitten host" part is obviously encyclopedic, but I think the phrase itself might warrant inclusion. I notice that google books:"had a tick bite" gets hundreds of hits, suggesting that people are thinking of a "tick bite" as a distinct lexical concept (since otherwise the natural thing to say is that they had been bitten by a tick; contrast, say, "had a cat bite"). (I should note that some of the hits at the above link are not actually using "tick bite" as a noun compound — for example, the very first hit is "I've never had a tick bite me" — but the vast majority of them are.) —Ruakh_TALK 01:20, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Of course, a fortiori, we need entries for mosquito bite, dog bite, snake bite, tax bite, bug bite, rattlesnake bite, and spider bite, just to mention those more common than tick bite at COCA. DCDuring TALK 03:23, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Well, we certainly need mosquito bite. That one I'd definitely vote keep on. I'm shocked we don't already have it. As for the others — some of them may warrant inclusion, but rather despite what you say than because of it. Commonness is not the sole criterion for keeping an entry, or else we'd have entries for his daughter, two books, etc. a fortiori does not mean what you think it means. —Ruakh_TALK 11:50, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

(deprecated template usage) Bite refers also to the welt or injury present after being bitten by a small creature. IMO "had a tick bite" uses this sense of (deprecated template usage) bite.​—msh210℠ (talk) 16:04, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Keep per WT:COALMINE. —Ruakh_TALK 11:50, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

I'd bet that attestation can be found for all of them, even taxbite. DCDuring TALK 14:41, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Aaargh. Fine, keep then.​—msh210℠ (talk) 16:04, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Aha; keep accordingly. - -sche (discuss) 18:19, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Keep per Ruakh. Matthias Buchmeier (talk) 09:12, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

I suppose COALMINE says keep, and I voted for that. Little did I know. (The stain says hot, the label says not!) Equinox ◑ 00:10, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Obviously the somewhat recent attempt to overturn COALMINE failed. However, is anyone interested in a "no-brainer" addendum? The addendum could allow us to choose to overrule COALMINE if, say, 10 users agreed to delete a term, and those 10 were to be in the majority. I haven't thought out the details, but just something so we could get rid of (deprecated template usage) tick bite and (deprecated template usage) Chinese man and yet keep the rest. --Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 05:02, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

• keep per coalmineLucifer (talk) 06:51, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Kept as no consensus. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 04:27, 16 August 2012 (UTC)