Talk:prostitution ring

prostitution ring
SOP. See (what's currently) definition 6 of ring. —  [Ric Laurent] — 12:29, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
 * It's a common collocation, but frankly that's all I have in its defence. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:32, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
 * It's a set term sort of word used in criminology.Lucifer 15:44, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Compare pedophile ring, crime ring, etc. and see ring: &mdash; which already offers prostitution ring as an example. Equinox ◑ 15:45, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete, or indeed why bother having a sense at ring to cover it if we intend to create every conceivable combination. Mglovesfun (talk) 19:30, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
 * who said every sense, just common set terms.Lucifer 02:47, 28 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete. This is not a set phrase. "Ring", in this sense, can collocate with a number of different nouns attributively - "drug ring", "narcotics ring", "illegal arms ring", "human trafficking ring", "illegal immigration ring", "illegal alien ring", "illegal dogfighting ring", "betting ring", "abortion ring", etc., etc. ---&#62; Tooironic 23:08, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Many of those are rare, but I see your point.Lucifer 10:27, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Mglovesfun (talk) 18:28, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete DCDuring TALK 01:16, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Any objection to turn into a hard redirect to ring?Lucifer 10:27, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I object weakly. Something like, oh, I don't know, the like, if redirecting it, we'd want to redirect to like, as that's the word people are unlikely to know: here, if someone, by some chance, looks up prostitution ring, it may be either word he doesn't know, so I don't think we should redirect to one of them. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 17:46, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 17:46, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I object to a redirect, a search will find both 'prostitution' and 'ring', a redirect will not. Mglovesfun (talk) 17:54, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * If someone is looking for the definition of a prostitution ring, the part they are looking for a definition of the set term/collocation and that is by everyone's admission here ring, so ring is appropriate notwithstanding that ring explains it is often a prostitution ring.Lucifer 19:26, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Deleted. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 23:19, 13 December 2011 (UTC)