Talk:Merck Manual

RFD discussion: March–April 2016
Encyclopedic (Onelook). Nibiko (talk) 05:48, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Or is it like White House? DCDuring TALK 12:15, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Or Schengen Agreement? DCDuring TALK 12:22, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
 * According to Wikipedia, no, it's the name of a book. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:50, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
 * It's not the full title but a sort of nickname or abbreviation, familiar to those in the field. That would make it like K&R, but the latter at least has the grounds of being an initialism that needs expanding. Equinox ◑ 19:00, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
 * There are lots of book titles (and other titles) that people remove words from to make them easier to say. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time for example, is often shortened to The Curious Incident because it's rather long. Renard Migrant (talk) 19:17, 17 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Yeah, true, like Catcher for Catcher in the Rye. Delete. Equinox ◑ 19:23, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Or is it a byword for accepted medical knowledge? AHD has for Hoyle "A reference book of rules for card games and other indoor games.", which would cover uses such as in Hoyle whereas according to Hoyle does not. Examples of other similar terms used to refer to specific works or cases include Marbury v. Madison, Brown v. Board of Education, Blackstone ("jurist author of "). For the last three I have found OneLook dictionaries that include them. DCDuring TALK 19:52, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
 * We do have to mean 'a specific Latin-French dictionary by Félix Gaffiot'. Also no entry for  which surely meets CFI. Renard Migrant (talk) 20:01, 17 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete IMO. One-word titles of ancient books like the Iliad, Bible, and Aeneid I can see a rationale for including. Multi-word titles of modern manuals (or even old manuals, like On Farming) don't seem like something to be covered in a dictionary. - -sche (discuss) 21:00, 19 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I seem to keep saying, I say let's focus on being a dictionary. Not a list of quotations of well-known books. Renard Migrant (talk) 18:02, 22 March 2016 (UTC)


 * RFD failed. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 18:14, 29 April 2016 (UTC)