Talk:Hogwarts
RFV discussion
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I think this needs better citations. The current crop are just mentioning the specific fictional place, not using it in any common/generic sense (except possibly "There isn't a real-life Hogwarts"). Equinox ◑ 20:01, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
- I agree that it needs better citations if we take CFI seriously (but who does?). I have added three that might fit the bill. Please let me know what you think of them. There may be more, but the yield of good ones is a very small percentage of the total. DCDuring TALK 02:28, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
- Well, the two that call something "very Hogwarts" are definitely promising. Equinox ◑ 02:35, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
- There are more google news archive hits for "very Hogwarts". Polarpanda 15:41, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
- I've had a look for cites, "a Hogwarts of intellectual capital" and "a Hogwarts for financial wizards" seem like generic uses. Polarpanda 16:10, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
Removed RFV. The new cites are great, but how can you say they aren't proper nouns? I don't think there is a generic use for this name. One could easily take the position that all the quotations literally refer to the one school, even if to something else metaphorically. DAVilla 06:41, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
- Striking per DAVilla. —RuakhTALK 23:41, 17 January 2011 (UTC)