Talk:Fantasyland

RFD

The following discussion has been moved from Wiktionary:Requests for deletion.

This discussion is no longer live and is left here as an archive. Please do not modify this conversation, but feel free to discuss its conclusions.

---

"A section of several Walt Disney theme parks noted for containing imagery relating to fairy tales." Equinox ◑ 21:54, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Delete, a section of a theme park, way off topic. --Mglovesfun (talk) 21:56, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

• I believe I created this to distinguish the proper noun usage of the term from fantasy land and fantasyland. There are actually some sourced that capitalize "fantasyland" in its generic usage, for example:
  • 2009, John C. Maxwell, Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions That Will Help You See It and Seize It, p. 50:

    If your dream depends a lot on luck, then you're in trouble. If it depends entirely on luck, you're living in Fantasyland. ... People who build their dream on reality take a very different approach to dreams than do people who live in Fantasyland.

  • 2007, Colleen Sell, A Cup of Comfort for Writers, p. 28:

    Yes, I escaped into Fantasyland. However, I could just as easily have become a serial killer, a prostitute, a child beater, or a politician.

  • 2003, Richard G. Lipsey, Christopher Ragan, Economics, p. 327:

    On a scale diagram, with the percentage of households on the vertical axis and the percentage of aggregate income on the horizontal axis, plot the Lorenz curve for Fantasyland.

  • 1999, John Clute, John Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 341:

    A typical Fantasyland will display - often initially by means of a prefatory MAP - a selection, sometimes very full, from a more or less fixed list of landscape ingredients..."

  • 1997, Jay Gummerman, Chez Chance, p. 174:

    Maybe this Fantasyland, as the egg woman called it, would counteract all the weirdness that had been accumulating since. ... Once this Fantasyland had kicked in, he would be on autopilot: all the necessary motivation would be provided for him.

  • 1986, Elma Schemenauer, Hello Edmonton, p. 15:

    Now leave Fantasyland and go back to the days of fur traders.

• Maybe this can be resolved with a usage note at fantasyland, but we need to do something to inform users that the term most often references the fairy-tale part of Disney parks, but sometimes just means a land of fantasy. bd2412 T 21:17, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

I suppose you could put a link to Wikipedia's piece on the Disney park under See also. Equinox ◑ 09:48, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

On a side note, the earliest use of the capitalized, undivided version of the word does not seem to come until after the establishment of the Disney element, which was first written about around 1952. bd2412 T 14:59, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Delete, not dictionary material. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 18:12, 12 August 2012 (UTC)

How so? It's a single word and it pretty clearly meets WT:BRAND, which guides our determination as to what is "dictionary material". bd2412 T 16:25, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

I interpret Fantasyland in the citations above as an alternative capitalisation of fantasyland, but that’s not the current definition. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 16:33, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

True. What we need, then, is to add a definition indicating this general usage, basically as an alternative spelling of fantasyland, and to move the Walt Disney reference to an etymology section. bd2412 T 16:40, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

It’s good now. Keep. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 04:59, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

{{look}}

I've modified the entry per the discussion above. What do you think? - -sche (discuss) 04:51, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Good. I've added all of the citations to a citations page shared by this and the lowercase. bd2412 T 21:24, 25 August 2012 (UTC)