Talk:Larry Stylinson

Sure you wanna keep this? I mean ... LinguisticMystic (talk) 11:13, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

We're a descriptive dictionary. People use this (or at least have used it for a long enough period). It's not a brand name or the name of a person. If you can think of a reason to delete this based on WT:CFI, you're free to nominate this at RFDE, but I'm not so sure it would accomplish anything. If you have some personal objection, remember that Wiktionary is uncensored: if it meets CFI, we have an entry for it. Period/full stop. Chuck Entz (talk) 15:40, 31 October 2021 (UTC)

Ship names are a type of fandom slang. Fandom slang falls under CFI. For many years this was an unwritten policy, but it was formally established by a recent vote. Anyone wishing to delete this entry on CFI grounds will have to first overturn the results of that vote. This will likely be an uphill battle given that the proposal (a ban on fandom slang) was almost unanimously rejected.

Is your concern that the current definition doesn't make it sufficiently clear that the "Larry Stylinson" relationship is an imaginary one? We do draw a distinction between nicknames for actual celebrity couples (e.g. Bennifer) and fandom slang ship names that refer to relationships between fictional characters or imaginary relationships between real people. But the definition could be certainly be modified to clarify the fictive nature of this ship. WordyAndNerdy (talk) 04:10, 1 November 2021 (UTC)