Talk:needle in a straw poll

RFV discussion
Only one possible hit on Google books. Headword needs correcting if OK. SemperBlotto (talk) 09:51, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I just noticed this. Still no hits in Books or Usenet, more than two months later. It looks to me like a one-off playful splicing of two incompatible idioms that share one similar part Chuck Entz (talk) 00:19, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
 * There are a few blog and news site hits. But even if there were some durable cites, I don't think this should be included.  It is just a humorous pun. Spinning Spark  06:40, 8 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Failed. — Ungoliant (Falai) 21:03, 19 September 2013 (UTC)

RFV discussion: January–February 2023
Failed RFV in 2013, recently re-added without quotations. I haven’t actually checked whether this is citable. 70.172.194.25 19:56, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Speedy as previous failed RFV, have tagged it as such. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 03:38, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Speedied. No hits on Google books for the exact phrase, and everything on regular Google looks like it came from us. Whoever deleted the entry before didn't notice there was still a Synonyms section at needle in a haystack linking to this, which is probably how the entry was re-created. This time I removed that, then deleted this entry and everything in mainspace that linked to it. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:59, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
 * There's this one article that seemingly coined the phrase as a joke and that's about it. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 04:07, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Just for the record: this account's edits looked very familiar, so I ran checkuser on them. It's the same person who inspired the whole derogatory thing in the first place. You should probably remove everything they've done and go over all the entries they've created to assess whether to delete them. I've reverted all their edits that I could. Other accounts by the same person:, and . Last month  they were . Chuck Entz (talk) 04:52, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

RFV Failed, already deleted. Ioaxxere (talk) 06:22, 24 February 2023 (UTC)