Talk:Holocash

RFV discussion: March 2020

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Holocash

As noted by the user who added sense 2, there don't seem to be uses of sense 1 (at least on Google Books). However, sense 2 also seems to only be mentioned, as it is in all three of the citations in the entry, especially in reference to a Times of London article (which two of the cites in the entry are quoting). - -sche (discuss) 07:38, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Also abundant on Usenet both as holo-cash and holocash. DCDuring (talk) 17:19, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

RFV-resolved. Only sense 2 passes. Kiwima (talk) 08:55, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

Does it, though? Removing the two clearly mentiony cites, I only found one use, for a total of perhaps two (if the remaining citation in quotation marks is deemed a use and not a mention). As an aside, I managed to cite sense 1 ("the Holocaust") in lowercase, holocash. Since users may not think to check both entries to see that the different caps ostensibly encode a semantic distinction, I would prefer to find enough citations to put both senses on one page (probably lowercase, judging by what's on offer at Usenet), but many hits turn out to be by the same speedster-hating user, or use other capitalizations like "holoCash", making it hard to find enough uses that are all in the same capitalization. - -sche (discuss) 20:18, 22 March 2020 (UTC)

I think there is enough to leave something there, as offensive as the term may be (speaking as someone who lost family to the camps). I have merged the two definitions. Kiwima (talk) 22:24, 28 March 2020 (UTC)