Talk:pull a Columbine

RFV discussion: March 2020
All the attestation I can find for this involves news outlets quoting a student involved in a 2001 school shooting. Any other citations? Imetsia (talk) 01:15, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
 * cited. However, we might want to move this to requests for deletion as NISOP, as a school shooting is one of the definitions at . There is nothing special about the verb "pull" -- one can "threaten a Columbine", "plot a Columbine", "be afraid of a Columbine", etc. Kiwima (talk) 03:17, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Someone might also pull a Jonestown . So indeed NiSoP IMO. --Lambiam 12:15, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 21:53, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

RFD discussion: March–April 2020
NISOP. We already have a definition of Columbine as "An incident in which someone shoots multiple people at a school." And there isn't any particularity with the word "pull." One could certainly just " plot a Columbine" or " carry out a Columbine." Indeed, one could instead "pull a Jonestown." (This discussion was originally at RFV, and I just appropriated this reasoning from and ). Imetsia (talk) 14:23, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete, SOP. PUC 15:12, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete, SOP. --Lambiam 16:34, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
 * This reminds me that Requests_for_deletion/English could do with more input so that it may be resolved one way or another. Mihia (talk) 23:48, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Over the years I've deleted several bogus entries in the form "pull a(n) X", where X is the name of some individual the vandal wants to insult by asserting that some undesirable action is characteristic of that person, with the action being described in the definition. For instance, the entry might be (to make up an arbitrary example): "pull a Joe" with definition like "to stab your coworkers in the back by reporting them to management over nothing". This shows that "pull a(n) X" is a very generic construction that's almost completely independent of the identity of X. Chuck Entz (talk) 00:30, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Deleted - TheDaveRoss  15:59, 22 April 2020 (UTC)