Talk:Frankenstein

RFD discussion: April 2019–April 2020
Rfd-sense: the novel. We are not Wikipedia. 2600:1000:B121:73E2:8DE5:B945:4762:BF79 10:48, 29 April 2019 (UTC)


 * I would delete (but mention it of course, e.g. in the etymology). We are inconsistent: e.g. Dracula does not have a sense line for the novel but Cinderella does have one for the fairy tale. Equinox ◑ 10:52, 29 April 2019 (UTC)


 * I am okay with deleting the sense provided we keep the sense "The creator of Frankenstein's monster in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus." I checked, and especially M-W. Governed by WT:NSE. However, the nomination does not provide any applicable rationale, from my standpoint; we do have multiple single-word names of literary works. --Dan Polansky (talk) 08:20, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is all fair enough. Should we also mention that the monster itself is a rather common error? SemperBlotto (talk) 08:23, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Definitely. I would say it's the main sense, and the one used in allusions like, etc. (I see the sense has been added.) - -sche (discuss) 21:18, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
 * We do have some (usually single-word) titles of works, like the Iliad, the Havamal, the Bible, etc, but in my experience we (de facto) exclude modern works. Would we include, say, Divergent? Delete sense, IMO. - -sche (discuss) 21:16, 16 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Is two hundred years ago (197, to be pedantic) really modern? If it is deleted, as Equinox says, it's just going to move around the page, into the etymology.--Prosfilaes (talk) 21:17, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Deleted sense, if someone would like to create an etymology that remains to be done. - TheDaveRoss  13:17, 1 April 2020 (UTC)