Talk:MRDA

The original entry posted yesterday was deleted by SemperBlotto as "Tosh". I fail to see why. This is a common acronym in the UK with numerous on-line references (a number included in the article)

RFV discussion
Protologism? Nothing that I can see on Google books, very few in groups or blogs. SemperBlotto 16:37, 20 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Hardly Protologism, It has been around for at least 20 years. If you are going to use US based references then you will not find MRDA. It is uniquely British and widely used amongst UK Journalists. On-line references (including The Guardian and PC Pro) as follows:


 * http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com/archives/001478.html
 * http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2005/jun/20/linuxisterrib
 * http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/72627/keep-it-simple-stupid
 * http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2007/may/03/pcworldeditor




 * Not one of those references uses the term MRDA: - they just define what it is. SemperBlotto 17:27, 20 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Not so. I quote:


 * "In the UK, we say MRDA,"




 * Yeah, that's a mention, not a use. See Criteria for inclusion and Use–mention distinction. Unlike Wikipedia, we're not a tertiary source that presents what other sources say about something; rather, we go directly to the actual uses of the term. If there aren't any — that is, if it's a term that people claim exists, but that no one ever actually uses — then it has no place here. —Ruakh TALK 18:10, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

RFV failed, entry deleted. —Ruakh TALK 23:40, 18 August 2010 (UTC)