Talk:Double Jeopardy

This page was previously nominated for deletion. Please consider these prior discussions before re-nominating. format: * 15 September 2007

We need entries like this? --Connel MacKenzie 19:08, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

double jeopardy yes, Double Jeopardy! no. Delete. —Stephen 19:13, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Would the game meaning of Double Jeopardy be understood out of context? Probably. I don't think the case is clear for or against. DAVilla 23:07, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

This construction can't be used outside the context of the game. Double Delete! --Connel MacKenzie 04:56, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

• 2000 April, Edward Bear, The Seven Deadly Needs, pages 87-88, Health Communications

  "The illusion that winning or losing is really important. That the world we see is all there is. It's all just beautiful camouflage, Edward. But if we didn't believe it was real, if we didn't have all those cherished illusions, how would we ever learn the lessons?"

  "What lessons, for crissakes?"

  "The lessons in Life School," he said.

  "Oh sure. Life School. Which is of course where we learn about the Life Game." He is sometimes at his most exasperating when he gets into his Teacher's Mode.

  "You remember," he said. "The lessons. The basics."

  "I remember the two most important spiritual practices."

  "And just what might they be?"

  "Gratitude and forgiveness," I said. "You probably didn't think I remembered, eh?"

  "Bravo. There was never a doubt--you're one of my star pupils. We may now be ready for the Double Jeopardy round. Now for the next question," he said. "This is a fill-in-the-blank question. Life is a series of..."

  "Yes."

  "Yes what?"

  "Life is a series of blanks."

DAVilla 14:53, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

• 1999 Application Profiling - A Microsoft Network Perspective Optimizing Network Traffic by Alexander Levin (excerpted from "Optimizing Network Traffic")

  The time it takes to get the packet onto the wire is significant, but bigger delays lie ahead. Specifically, if after all this travel the application is inefficiently designed, the process gets into double jeopardy, where the scores can really change.

• 1988 Die Hard (film)

  Hans Gruber: You are most troublesome, for a security guard..?

  John McClane: Bzzzt! Sorry Hans, wrong guess. Would you like to go for Double Jeopardy where the scores can really change?

Kappa 15:34, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

So, those all are not used outside of the context of the game attributively, but rather within tight contexts where the game is understood. Seems like a pretty dumb entry for Wiktionary to have. As far as I know, we don't have a tag for {{garbage entry}} at this point in time. So, while we should have an entry for double jeopardy, the redundant, idiotic, promotional spam entry Double Jeopardy/Double Jeopardy! should be deleted, no matter where it gets moved to. (Note, why was the lower case version cited, anyhow?) This should not be treated as an RFV anyway - it is a promotional redundant entry, hence the RFD. --Connel MacKenzie 16:17, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

What do you mean, why was the lower case version cited? Are you referring to Kappa's citation above? DAVilla 16:53, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Um these aren't exactly tight contexts - this part of the game is known widely enough that it can be referred to in an essay on computer networking or in an action film. Anyway I've added another definition to double jeopardy which makes this one redundant I guess. I don't mind the current rather encylopedic entry being deleted. Kappa 03:05, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I would prefer that the definition you wrote be kept at the uppercase, with a stub of the encyclopedic info moved to the etymology. DAVilla 19:15, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

I don't see the reason for that. It seems much more appropriate at the lowercase flavor, with the capitalized version a redirect or deleted. --Connel MacKenzie 15:32, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

• Deleted Double Jeopardy!, kept double jeopardy. --Connel MacKenzie 19:23, 7 July 2007 (UTC)