Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Poodle (insult)

{{AFD help}}

:{{la|1=Poodle (insult)}} – (View AfDView log | edits since nomination)

:({{Find sources AFD|title=Poodle (insult)}})

Article describing one time Tony Blair was criticized for going along with US policy. I think a sentence in the article about the incident is enough, and there's nothing here to suggest that this insult has been used on anyone but him. Not the same as attack poodle, from what I can tell, though I see no reason for an article about the latter either. Mangoe (talk) 22:53, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

• delete nonnotable dicdef. --Altenmann >talk 23:43, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Language and Politics. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 01:49, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
• Delete - WP:NOTDICTIONARY (Usage, slang, or idiom guides). Not sure even why this seems to be UK in origin, but the image used is an American president and his dog. — Maile (talk) 02:00, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
• Keep and provide more content and examples. This is a widely used concept. I heard it mostly in relation to Donald Trump being allegedly a Putin's poodle: [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/17/putins-poodle-newspapers-declare-trump-a-traitor-after-helsinki-summit],[https://www.brookings.edu/articles/trump-is-coming-off-as-putins-poodle-but-that-actually-undermines-russias-main-goal/]. Is it something notable? I think it certainly is. My very best wishes (talk) 20:03, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
• :Dict def plus examples is not an article. Mangoe (talk) 23:05, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
• ::This is not just a definition of the term with examples. The page describes the history and most notable usages of the term, which is of interest for a reader. Same would be for pages like Vatnik or Ukrop. My very best wishes (talk) 04:57, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
• ::I added a couple of refs and rearranged the text to make it more clear. My very best wishes (talk) 17:16, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
• ::I assume that page Attack poodle should be merged to this page. The meaning is slightly different, but definitely a variation of the same. My very best wishes (talk) 02:56, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:NOTDICTIONARY. It might be widely used, but an insult being widely used doesn't make it notable. We don't need to have an article on a term if all that can be written about it is its definition and some examples of times that it's been used. MCE89 (talk) 10:52, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

:

{{resize|91%|Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.}}
Relisting comment: Relisting. I'd like editors who commented right after the nomination to examine changes to the article since then.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 22:44, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

• Delete. I've looked at the changes made to the article, and they're still woefully inadequate. NOTDICT is pretty clear here, and Mangoe is right -- a dicdef plus a few example usages does not an article make. This just isn't a suitable topic for an article. 35.139.154.158 (talk) 14:13, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

{{clear}}

:The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.