Talk:singular they

RFD discussion: November 2019–April 2020
Is this SOP? Many (any?) pronouns which are commonly used in both the singular and the plural can be distinguished this way, like also ; in another vein one can speak of. I can even find a hit for "Equality&#39;s use of the “singular &#39;we&#39;” has long since become familiar to the reader" (2005, Robert Mayhew, Essays on Ayn Rand's Anthem (ISBN 9780739154748), page 109), although that seems to be more often referred to by phrases like "royal we"/"editorial we"/"authorial we", which I'm not RFDing because they seem more opaque. - -sche (discuss) 06:41, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep for me. Since "they" is traditionally plural, its use for singular referents is something that is commonly discussed in grammar/ling/education etc. If one doesn't know this lexical history, the term is pretty opaque. - Sonofcawdrey (talk) 00:07, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep I still run into people who mistakenly think that singular usage is erroneous. Tharthan (talk) 00:48, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Would the two of you want to have singular you as well? (Citations at the Google Books link in my earlier comment.) Do you find singular you opaque? - -sche (discuss) 04:40, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
 * On further investigation, it seems that the pronoun in such cases (whether you, they, we, or whatever) is marked by being in quotes or italics or something like that (e.g. "the singular they"), so this seems to indicates that it is not a compound noun. So, I change my vote to Delete. - Sonofcawdrey (talk) 07:43, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I just realised that this is an RfD for singular they, and not one for the singular sense of they. I, too, change my vote to Delete. Tharthan (talk) 13:47, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Canonicalization (talk) 13:17, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. Noteworthy set phrase that people are likely to want to look up. Should strictly be listed as singular they or singular "they", but I don't know whether we can accommodate this at Wiktionary. Mihia (talk) 20:21, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Deleted - TheDaveRoss  17:26, 22 April 2020 (UTC)