Talk:face only a mother could love

RFD discussion: March–August 2023
This seems overly specific. The phrase is not limited to faces. I have added the phrase, and I think it renders this entry NISOP Kiwima (talk) 21:54, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete as SoP. I think the phrase is more often used to say something is hard to appreciate, rather than hard to love. &mdash; excarnateSojourner (talk &middot; contrib) 23:17, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete Redirect as SOP per your argument. It would be silly to make an entry for every "X only a mother could love". Also delete Redirect the plural form entry . – Guitarmankev1 (talk) 12:45, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Changing my opinion to Redirect, per -sche below. – Guitarmankev1 (talk) 12:40, 20 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Keep I think this is well established as a stock phrase, standing on its own, and that the other formulations are much less used. In fact they might be just variants on the face phrase. The "face" part of the phrase is used literally, yes, e.g. if you search google for that plus the word "fish", you can see pictures of ugly fish. But *fish only a mother could love isnt likely to turn up much of anything.  — Soap — 15:30, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Actually, I think occurrences of "someone only a mother could love", or "person only a mother could love", etc, vastly outnumber the faces. Kiwima (talk) 00:24, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per proponent. Also "a child only a mother could love". Should this be moved to Appendix:Snowclones/X only a mother could love? PUC – 18:16, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
 * (Also, ha.) My initial reaction is that when it's possible to have an entry be in mainspace (when the X isn't embedded in the middle of it), it seems preferable and more findable to have it in mainspace, so at only a mother could love as Kiwima says. But I admit it's hard to determine where exactly the line between "belongs in the snowclone appendix" (like X is the new Y) and "belongs in mainspace" (like headed, or like a bat out of hell rather than *Appendix:Snowclones/X like a bat out of hell) is. The fact that a noun X is not strictly necessary might suggest this is more on the mainspace side of the line, e.g. someone can have an X that is , or can put the object on the other side, X. - -sche (discuss) 01:20, 19 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Maybe redirect rather than delete. - -sche (discuss) 01:20, 19 March 2023 (UTC)


 * RFD passed, made into a redirect Pious Eterino (talk) 08:11, 10 August 2023 (UTC)