Talk:coronation

coronation
Rfv-sense: "The pomp or assembly at a coronation". It's also rather circular as it contains the word 'coronation'. I'm struggling to come up with even a hypothetical example where this is even plausible. "I hated all the coronation at the Queen's coronation". Sounds ridiculous yet that's what the entry says. Mglovesfun (talk) 19:45, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I did a little checking, this goes back to the first version of the page in 2004, so 9 years. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:55, 18 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Clocked out DCDuring TALK 02:02, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * RFV failed: no quotations provided. As an auxi check, online dicts do not have this sense. --Dan Polansky (talk) 19:18, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

RFD discussion: June 2013–April 2014
"An uncontested party leadership election." Way too specific, why only a (political) party leadership election? Could be any office (Sepp Blatter being re-elected as president of FIFA whilst being the only candidate comes to mind as a specific example). But then, isn't that just the first sense used sarcastically (as in how big can means small, and easy can mean hard)? As a separate issue, has anyone heard of "The pomp or assembly at a coronation" as a definition of coronation, because I haven't. Mglovesfun (talk) 22:06, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
 * My second instinct is to keep this but to rewrite per what I've written above. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:26, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree. Any non-competitive instance of an ostensibly competitive process for selecting a winner can be so described. Elections are the most common usage, but I'm pretty sure I've seen it used in sports and in business, as well. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:37, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Kept as amended. bd2412 T 17:50, 16 April 2014 (UTC)