Talk:Abbott and Costello

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Abbott and Costello
"A famous American comedy duo through the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s." Encyclopaedia topic. The entry offers nothing lexicographical. Equinox ◑ 20:55, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Strong delete or add Laurel and Hardy, Penn and Teller and the like. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:01, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
 * After preview, Laurel and Hardy exists :o(. Mglovesfun (talk) 21:01, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
 * See . This looks like a consequence of the nihilistic/anarchistic elimination of the much-reviled, but sorely missed, attestable-use criterion for proper nouns: Nobody seems to want to delete such entries, develop criteria for including them, provide a rationale for definitions of them, or just clean them up. DCDuring TALK 21:10, 11 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete. < class="latinx" >Ƿidsiþ 10:55, 14 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Google Books has 72 search results for "the Abbott and Costello of". Bob Zemeckis and Bob Gale "were the Abbott and Costello of junk cinema — forever riffing back and forth on this or that piece of pop culture minutiae." Keep. DAVilla 06:29, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

As DCDuring notes, the CFI no longer discuss such entries except to say "there is no agreement on precise, all-encompassing rules for deciding" whether to keep them. Three people, above, say to delete, with Equinox offering a (IMO not very strong) reason; I'll make it four. Only one says to keep, also offering a (IMO not very strong) reason. Deleted. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 00:24, 1 December 2011 (UTC)