Talk:Gibson

RFV discussion: January–March 2012
Rfv-sense: A hacker's or cracker's primary target during a malicious computer hack, usually the most important system in a network (from the 1995 film Hackers, after cyberpunk writer William Gibson). < class="latinx" >Ƿidsiþ 11:10, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
 * AIUI, in that film, "the Gibson" is not only a fictional term (in the film's universe) but also refers to one specific computer that the hackers need to break into &mdash; not any computer of that kind in general. So I can't see this passing. Equinox ◑ 23:07, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Deleted. - -sche (discuss) 03:55, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

RFD discussion: December 2017–November 2018
RFD-sense: the manufacturer. Does this satisfy WT:BRAND? PseudoSkull (talk) 00:28, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
 * "Does this satisfy WT:BRAND?" is a question for WT:RFVE and not for WT:RFDE.84.161.6.246 03:57, 9 December 2017 (UTC)


 * There is also a Gibson shoe, a lace-up shoe for men, so I don't know how you get on there, e.g. I'm going to wear my Gibsons today. DonnanZ (talk) 15:43, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't know but nothing good for the dictionary user is going to come out of this nomination. The challenge is how to search for quotations meeting WT:BRAND. --Dan Polansky (talk) 15:55, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what the problem is. I remember most BRAND cases coming to RED. What did I miss? PseudoSkull (talk) 23:35, 11 December 2017 (UTC)


 * Here's one: 2008: Rick Rinehart, ‎Amy Rinehart, Dare to Survive: Death, Heartbreak, and Triumph in the Wild, p. xiv: "We'd like to think that his spirit lives on under the western sky he so loved, strumming his Gibson somewhere and belting out a Woody Guthrie ballad to an audience of coyotes and rabbitbrush". This is in the acknowledgments, and nowhere does the book state that a Gibson is a guitar. bd2412 T 22:40, 12 December 2017 (UTC)


 * I added the common noun (i.e. "Gibsons" are guitars) when I saw this nomination. The nom is for the proper noun, i.e. the company name, not its products. Equinox ◑ 19:19, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I see. Delete the company name. bd2412 T 19:36, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, please note that the nomination is only for the company name itself. Any nouns that come from the company name aren't part of this, and can be added separately from this discussion. PseudoSkull (talk) 02:06, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

PS: There's WT:CFI, and the manufacturer Gibson is a company, ain't it? So with attestation of a common noun Gibson (= guitar made by the company Gibson), the company name Gibson can be included as by WT:CFI, can't it?
 * @PseudoSkull: Brand names can be included in WT, and whether or not they are attested as for WT's requirements for citations (cp. WT:CFI) is a question of attestation, verification (i.e. for WT:RFVE). Maybe compare with Requests for deletion/English above. Or do you emphasize WT:CFI's "brand name for a product or service"? With Gibson being a manufacturer, one could argue that it's neither a product nor service, hence to be deleted? With "must not identify any such parties [which includes the manufacturer]" it might also be impossible to attest a manufacturing company's name, even if it where only "brand name" without "for a product or service". (Well, on the other hand one could argue that manufacturing is a service but that doesn't seem to work out.)
 * @BD2412: And why? Being a brand name alone isn't a reason for deletion (as else WT:CFI should read "Brand names are excluded" instead of "brand name [...] should be included [...]").
 * -84.161.46.194 04:58, 17 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Gibson is a company that makes a product, and is not known for providing services apart from the construction of that product. It is common for brand names to enter the lexicon—Kleenex, Xerox, google, escalator, aspirin—but far less common for names of companies to enter the lexicon apart from their products or services. bd2412 T 20:27, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Sense deleted. bd2412 T 16:21, 26 November 2018 (UTC)