Talk:you can't always get what you want

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This is not a proverb at all, but pure SoP. -- Liliana • 15:05, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, delete. We shouldn't include phrases merely because they are common. Otherwise we'd start getting stuff like what languages do you speak: &mdash; oh, wait. Equinox ◑ 15:11, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Oh, would that someone, somewhere would host a meaningful phrasebook ! DCDuring TALK 01:05, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
 * It certainly is common, and I found two books that describe it as an "old saying", another as a fortune cookie "proverb". I say keep. DAVilla 05:23, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep. It does seem to meet all the basic requirements for being a proverb, except for great age (about which I don't know and which isn't on my personal list of requirements anyway). Proverbs are either advice about courses of action or observations about general states of the world that amount to advice. DCDuring TALK 13:27, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
 * My personal view is and has been that SOP proverbs should not be included. That is, those that mean more than the sum of their parts (a rolling stone gathers no moss, which is metaphoric) should be, but literal ones (like the one in question here) should not. For that reason alone I say delete. I do know others disagree with me, though. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 15:52, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
 * A large fraction of proverbs don't seem to have any metaphorical interpretation whatsoever beyond whatever metaphors are built into the constituent terms, eg, forewarned is forearmed. Sometimes the prosody seems to make an expression seem like a proverb, so maybe the Rolling Stones made a valuable contribution to making this a proverb. DCDuring TALK 17:05, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete, commonness alone does not a proverb make. --Mglovesfun (talk) 11:39, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
 * What does? DCDuring TALK 12:39, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree (with DCDuring, 17:05, 14 July 2011 (UTC)) that "[a] large fraction of proverbs" are literal a/k/a SOPs. I didn't say otherwise: I merely said that such should not be in the dictionary. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 20:57, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I think Wiktionary should be a bit more liberal when it comes to proverbs, because what may seem obvious there isn't always as obvious. But in this case there really doesn't seem to be anything particularly special about the proverb, suggest delete. --The Evil IP address 17:51, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Deleted. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 00:33, 1 December 2011 (UTC)