Talk:murderhobo

Earlier citation
Fwiw, this thread at Paizo.com has a guy claiming that RPG gadfly Frank Trollman coined the term "murder hobo" while GMing at the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2003 x 2006. There's no association I can find with him and it's development from "murderous hobo" several years later, though, so I would assume it's hogswallop. — LlywelynII  07:49, 24 July 2018 (UTC)

RFV discussion: September 2021
Kodiologist stated it probably does not meet the attestation criterion. J3133 (talk) 06:53, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
 * No, I didn't. I said "It is no more or less ripe for RFV than 'sniddy'", and I'm not sympathetic to the reading of WT:ATTEST that would remove "sniddy", either. —Kodiologist (t) 11:15, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
 * “"murderhobo" is another word I added that's well-attested on the Web but probably not elsewhere. We have a Usenet citation, but only one.” This made it clear that it probably does not meet our attestation criterion, not that these were your exact words but I do not see a reason to argue. J3133 (talk) 11:29, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Not at all. WT:ATTEST as it stands requires only "use in permanently recorded media". I would think it plain and unambiguous that a web page archived on the Internet Archive is "permanently recorded", particularly since Usenet articles are given as an example in the same policy, but evidently it's not, hence my vote initiative to clarify. —Kodiologist (t) 12:39, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Cited with durably-archived sources per that current reading of CFI. WordyAndNerdy (talk) 12:53, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
 * That's a lot of good quotes. Nicely done. —Kodiologist (t) 13:06, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
 * How is it one “criterion”, ? “Well-attested on the web” may fulfil the “clearly widespread use” criterion, and you could have seen that the word should be in the dictionary notwithstanding rules, while it cannot be seen that the rules should be followed notwithstanding the desirability of coverage of the usage. Why are you testing? Nicenesses are expensive. Fay Freak (talk) 13:13, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia:Gaming the system does not apply as this request was not made in bad faith. The lead of this page states terms have to meet “the attestation criterion”. J3133 (talk) 13:21, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

RFV-passed AG202 (talk) 20:27, 25 September 2021 (UTC)