Talk:end of the world

what is doomsday?


 * It is the day of judgment. See doomsday. —Stephen (Talk) 07:43, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

RFD discussion: August–September 2017
Has four definitions:
 * 1) End of the planet Earth.
 * 2) End of habitability for life on Earth.
 * 3) End of humanity.

Probably a couple can be deleted. --WF on Holiday (talk) 07:02, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
 * All can be. SoP. All of the difference in meaning is in differences in meaning of world/World. Delete all of the above. DCDuring (talk) 14:01, 19 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep. Reference added. It could be classed as an idiom, people have been preaching that "the end of the world is nigh" for generations. DonnanZ (talk) 14:24, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
 * BTW: I'm impressed by WF's Babel rating en-0. DonnanZ (talk) 14:31, 19 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep but condense or consolidate senses 1 through 3. bd2412 T 16:31, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep only newly added idiomatic sense. DCDuring (talk) 16:46, 19 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep, but revise definition. None of the original senses seem like a very good description, as phrased.  Since it's usually a vague superstitious or religious metaphor, I think it should probably sound a bit less scientific than the first two.  Perhaps something along the lines of, "(usually metaphorical) the destruction of civilization, humanity, the world, or the universe."  P Aculeius (talk) 11:30, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
 * We are not lemmings, but a couple of other dictionaries have it . Also, it is a religious concept. I deleted two "lesser disaster" -senses, because they are included in the "any disaster" -sense. Keep the rest. --Hekaheka (talk) 08:04, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Maybe you removed too much. What is left is not terribly enlightening. DonnanZ (talk) 09:32, 22 August 2017 (UTC)


 * RFD kept, although the definitions have gotten rather trimmed down in the process. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 23:52, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

RFC discussion: December 2012–September 2017
There are currently 4 definitions here, but I don't consider that there should be so many. --Wikt Twitterer (talk) 09:08, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * How is this not SOP? --WikiTiki89 09:20, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Meh, not the end of the world seems like an idiom, end of the world as far as I can see refers to the actual end of the actual world. Mglovesfun (talk) 18:03, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It could refer to the end of the world in the sense of an edge in space, rather than time. The "fall off the end of the world" kind. 18:08, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * And both of those senses would be SOP. --WikiTiki89 19:02, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Only through context though. Without prior knowledge, you wouldn't know which sense of "end" was being used in "end of the world". 21:27, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * And neither would a dictionary. --WikiTiki89 17:48, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * It would not be the end of the world if this dictionary had neither this nor [[not the end of the world]]. But I would make [[not the end of the world]] a redirect to this as the "not" does not have a fixed position (as in my opening sentence or form (could appear as part of a contraction) in the naturally occurring construction. In addition, one could say: "It's always the end of the world if he thinks he might have to stay late."
 * A simple non-SoP definition is something like "a very bad outcome". DCDuring TALK 21:33, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * The fourth definition is the only one that would not be included in, IMO. This is just hyperbole, but it is basically a set phrase, though variations on it in the figurative sense are numerous: "the end of the world as we know it", "the end of the civilized world" etc. DCDuring TALK 21:40, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Fair point. Mglovesfun (talk) 23:13, 28 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Moved to RFD and kept --WF on Holiday (talk) 19:03, 19 September 2017 (UTC)