Talk:user-generated

Request for verification
It means "generated by a user or users". Mglovesfun (talk) 15:27, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. Per the entry itself, the usage is usually more specific than simply "generated by a user"; in the context of media services (especially websites) the term has taken on a range of connotations that go beyond just "generated by a user".--Ragesoss 15:28, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * More input? Mglovesfun (talk) 11:44, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Update and send to RFV for usages that back up the definition given above, if we are going to use that "range of connotations" (whatever they are). If we aren't, delete, like Internet-based below. Equinox ◑ 16:01, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
 * An RFV to show idiomaticity suits me. Any objectors? Mglovesfun (talk) 18:16, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

The following is from WT:RFD. Please continue to look for citations showing that is it idiomatic here. Mglovesfun (talk) 17:45, 25 November 2009 (UTC)


 * user-generated content is a specific thing in the world of news and media. Whether user-generated has any use outside that context I'm less sure. < class="latinx">Ƿidsiþ 08:51, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The definition given in no way shows that there is actually anything different about the web service context as opposed to user-generated product-improvement ideas for, say, aircraft engines or hand tools. Even for a phrase like "user-generated content", it seems implausible that there is standardized non-SoP meaning for the phrase, any more than there would be in the world of, say, drug-testing, where it might be differentiated from user-provided:. And, of course, no OneLook reference (not even Wordnet) bothers.
 * Procedurally, as an RfV, if, contrary to all that is reasonable and holy, the definition is considered acceptable, I hereby assert that this meets widespread use. DCDuring TALK 11:32, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Perhaps Ragesoss or Widsith could provide a non-encyclopedic definition that actually shows the non-idiomatic web-service "connotations" (though we usually focus on denotations). DCDuring TALK 11:37, 26 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Deleted. Equinox ◑ 14:31, 3 April 2010 (UTC)