Talk:what makes tick

RFD discussion: February 2019
Inner Focus (talk) 02:15, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Speedied. This was added by a Greek IP who insists on making up his own words and definitions, and then using them in the text of entries. Even if the entry name weren't horribly mangled, his definition made no sense except to him. Better to delete it and let someone else start from scratch. Chuck Entz (talk) 03:48, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
 * We already have and  as redirects to .  --Lambiam 09:02, 25 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I think looks rather weird, so I have changed the header, hopefully for the better. Now the inflections don't look right, not sure how to deal with those. DonnanZ (talk) 16:20, 26 February 2019 (UTC)


 * I would prefer to delete the weird "make tick", and just keep "make something tick", with "make someone tick" redirecting to it. Equinox ◑ 16:26, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree, I'm not sure which is the more common though. DonnanZ (talk) 16:44, 26 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Oddly enough, Oxford has "what makes someone tick" as a phrase, so the deleted entry wasn't all that far wrong. DonnanZ (talk) 10:05, 27 February 2019 (UTC)