Talk:Giant

RFV discussion: October–November 2020
Rfv-sense: A fictional magical being. The Giant in the Oscar Wilde story is actually a giant, and probably doesn't have any magic powers (I'm not gonna read the whole story just to check an RFV, I'm not that kind of Wiktionarian) Candle-holding servant (talk) 22:53, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
 * I did (here's a nice version). It's very short and rather charming. I can confirm: there's nothing different about the creature in the story from a giant except that the first letter of the name is uppercase. But that's not anything peculiar to this character: throughout the book, just about every noun that could be interpreted as the name of a character is capitalized. "The Nightingale and the Rose" starts with "She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses, cried the young Student, but in all my garden there is no red rose". Unless we're also going to have an English definition at Student, I would say that the quote in the entry doesn't support this sense at all. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:46, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Oh, Oscar's Giant is nothing more than a German capitalisation of giant!? --Soumyabrata (talk • subpages) 05:22, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Wikisource has a version too. —Mahāgaja · talk 07:58, 24 October 2020 (UTC)


 * I haven't checked but I bet this was a Daniel Carrero entry back when he kept adding entries for characters out of Harry Potter etc. (that was lazy; okay, it wasn't) See e.g. Talk:Child Catcher. I would say delete if this were RFD. Equinox ◑ 00:54, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 21:10, 22 November 2020 (UTC)