Talk:Croton

RFV discussion: August 2013–June 2014
The entire English entry with the following def: I suspect this is a response to usage that mentions a "Croton" supply to buildings, which I would argue is merely an attributive reference to the Croton aqueduct, and to the water, not the pipe. In the same way, I might refer to the DWP supply to the apartment building where I live, without needing to define the pipe as a "DWP". I don't really want to spend the time at the moment to sift through the evidence to be sure, so I'm bringing it here.
 * 1)  The main water supply pipe to a building or apartment

I should also mention that this was originally given a proper-noun POS, which is inherently incompatible with the definition, and that it also contained a separate etymology with a noun that was an exact copy of the translingual section. I came very close to just reverting the whole edit. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:33, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
 * There might be room for an English L2 section for Croton as a toponym, for the river, watershed, etc. I don't think that we would do dams, aqueducts etc. I can't imagine that someone is willing to do all the work that is probably required to engage in a probably futile search for attestation of the challenged sense.
 * BTW, Dewap would be attestable as "A bond issued by the ". DCDuring TALK 12:39, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
 * I found one cite that almost supports the existing sense: an NY Times article (1879) referring to a broken Croton pipe. I'm guessing that the search range could be temporally limited to between 1840 and 1939, but more recent fiction might use it to add historical flavor.
 * Since we seem to like proper nouns so much, I'm willing to add and cite the metonomic sense of Croton as something like "the NYC water supply". DCDuring TALK 18:56, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
 * It's not much fun to try to cite things when the JS for displaying quotations doesn't work. DCDuring TALK 19:24, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Try hard-refreshing. Our ULS killer with many random innocent victims has been removed. I am working on a new version with predictable mass innocent victims. Keφr 19:29, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Hard-refreshed, cleared my cache: No joy. DCDuring TALK 21:49, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I see. It works if I have no cache at all: FF private window. DCDuring TALK 21:53, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
 * But only for a few minutes. DCDuring TALK 22:44, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I seem to be having a problem with this particular page, but I haven't isolated a cause. Nothing seems wrong on the page. DCDuring TALK 14:21, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Problems may be solved. Who knows why? Though I copied the WebFonts killer from Keφr's js. DCDuring TALK 20:27, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Failed. — Ungoliant (falai) 02:17, 5 June 2014 (UTC)