Talk:heavy drinker

heavy drinker
I'll admit that at first glance, a non-native reader might assume this means an "overweight drinker". However, if they did look it up, they'd almost certainly go to heavy first, which has:
 * doing the specified activity more intensely than most other people.
 * He was a heavy sleeper, heavy eater and a heavy smoker - certainly not an ideal husband.

A lot of agent nouns can take "heavy" - "heavy snorer", "heavy dancer", "heavy thinker", "heavy gambler", "heavy DIYer", "heavy reader", "heavy flyer", "heavy borrower" and more are all attestable, as are more complicated compounds like "heavy tea drinker", "heavy newspaper reader", "heavy poker player" and "heavy buyer of books". It's nonsense to assume that any of these are undecipherable idioms - they are all "heavy" + agent noun. Including heavy drinker. Smurrayinchester (talk) 08:19, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:23, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Bad guys in the movies do seem to consume a lot of alcohol... Seriously, though, Delete Chuck Entz (talk) 13:57, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd make it a redirect, both to discourage someone adding a replacement entry and to get users to heavy: where they could find the sense. Alternatively, we could delete and rely on the search engine if we had a usage example at [[heavy]]. DCDuring TALK 14:18, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
 * No redirect as it can't redirect to both heavy and drinker. This is an excellent example of when a redirect won't work. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:35, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I think it is an excellent example of the benefits of recognizing which one of a list of possible redirect targets is overwhelmingly more/the most likely to help a user. DCDuring TALK 14:39, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Apart from 'heavy drinker' and 'heavy drinkers' (which won't show up if deleted) 'heavy' is the first search result for heavy drinker. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:43, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I firmly disagree, it is not clearcut which of the two words to redirect to. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:41, 8 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep or delete, but do not redirect. DAVilla 08:38, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

deleted -- Liliana • 08:17, 13 October 2012 (UTC)