Talk:Scooby-Doo

¶ Fictional dogs? Is this how far you have fallen, O Daniel? Can you honestly enjoy creäting entries like this one? ¶ Additional comment: the Portuguese Wikipedia spells it as ‘Scooby-Doo’. Is that not a contradiction? Thank you for your correction. --Pilcrow 03:57, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome; Scooby-Doo is spelled equally in Portuguese and English. You'll have to be more specific on everything else from your message above. --Daniel. 04:09, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

¶ I noticed you are focusing on a lot of entries on fictional characters, which I consider to be excessive; I favour more practical words, so you do not need to take this (admittedly petty) complaint into account. Still, am I incorrect that this is a significant interest of yours? --Pilcrow 04:22, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

Apparently, there are approximately 150 entries of fictional characters here, including few common nouns such as (deprecated template usage) antagonist and (deprecated template usage) Prince Charming. Since you mentioned "creating a lot of entries" in a former revision of this discussion, is that number specifically a lot to you? Anyway, most of these were created by other people, not me. Fiction is indeed a significant interest of mine, and I've been focusing my time mostly on organizing existing entries (or, oftentimes, mostly typing replies of related discussions and revising them, to be honest). In other words, that's cleanup work, which I hardly would call excessive as long as someone is willing to do this voluntary task. I've been also creating related templates, categories and appendices, which complement the aforementioned work. Improving the organization of things is what I have been mostly doing here, actually, since I've cleaned up most of the POS categories, language categories and so on. You might find them more useful, perhaps. --Daniel. 05:02, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

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Scooby-Doo

"A fictional dog." Yep, that's all it says. Useless. Something for Wikipedia. Equinox ◑ 06:14, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Oddly enough, I was planning to add this last week. I split this into two meanings (the series and the dog), with 3 citations for each. I believe the citations for the series meet WT:BRAND, and those for the dog WT:FICTION. I found lots for each. Heck, I believe "Scooby-Doo mystery" and "Scooby-Doo moment" might even warrant their own entry. I mean, we have Scooby snack. Choor monster (talk) 15:10, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

What the heck, we now also have rut roh. Choor monster (talk) 18:11, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

For the sake of the Martian rock, I added Scooby Doo. Choor monster (talk) 18:32, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

I added the interjection creepers --Type56op9 (talk) 19:42, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

• Keep as amended, and add Scoobies while we're at it. bd2412 T 22:15, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Delete and any other fictional animals. There's nothing that would make Scooby-Doo keepable, after we decided to delete Winnie the Pooh back in 2010. --Hekaheka (talk) 14:59, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

Really, any other fictional animals? Would you delete Pegasus and Cerberus? There is no hat that neatly fits all fictional animals. The question is whether it is used as a word outside of the context of the fictional universe from which it originates. bd2412 T 21:45, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

• Keep, given WT:FICTION and the quotations in the entry. Also, the definition no longer just says "A fictional dog." Winnie the Pooh was deleted via RFV since no-one cared to provide attestation; I find it a pity, since it has a non-obvious translation to Czech. --Dan Polansky (talk) 15:11, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
  • Winnie the Pooh is back, now with 4 cites to the series (which I believe meet WT:BRAND), and 4 cites to the bear (which I believe meet WT:FICTION). I followed your link, but in retrospect, I would have preferred if the main entry had been Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne's spelling. Choor monster (talk) 15:23, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
• Keep sufficient out of universe usage.--Prosfilaes (talk) 03:54, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

I have to agree this passes WT:ATTEST, WT:IDIOM and WT:FICTION, and is therefore a keeper. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:08, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

Kept. bd2412 T 01:59, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

The Boppenpoof Song

Mentioned on the Whiffenpoofs page, the Boppenpoof song, written by Milt Gabler (1954), contains an early rendition of scooby doo. Unfortunately, no text lyrics of this song are available, but a video search reveals Louis Armstrong did voice the following line: oo-le-oo scooby-do oo-be-do-be-do-be in any of the recordings of the song made with the Gordon Jenkins Orchestra. Also see the etymology of do-be-do at quote investigator.--Lmstearn (talk) 13:07, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

I've just mentioned this in the etymology and added a few other things. I'm tempted to add the vocable sense as a separate sense to this entry but I'm not sure we have enough reliable sources but I've put it in the etymology all the same. There's also a slang sense meaning something like 'cool' but I'm not sure if that postdates or predates the cartoon series. I may well create Citations:Scooby-Doo and add some of these. --Overlordnat1 (talk) 15:25, 10 March 2023 (UTC)