Talk:not all heroes wear capes

RFD discussion: February–March 2021

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not all heroes wear capes

Not a proverb, but just a commonplace. Also SOP despite the indirect language, the clear implication is that the implicit referent is a hero despite not wearing a cape. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 09:51, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Oppose. The reason why I requested its creation was exactly because the implication didn't occur to me. Not all readers have grown up on Superman stories and associate wearing a cape primarily with that character. --Droigheann (talk) 10:22, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

• Keep. People only recently started saying this, but I see value in keeping it here, especially for non-native speakers of English. — Dentonius 13:48, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
• Keep. The implication is not clear to everybody, and wording seems fixed-ish; "not all heroes wear capes" has 1.44 million G-hits, "some heroes don't wear capes" has just 23,000.--Tibidibi (talk) 13:55, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

I'm not necessarily disputing your conclusion, but I think it is worth pointing out again that numbers such as this 1.44m are Large Random Numbers™ that bear no relation to actual retrievable results, and that have no known explanation as to what they actually mean. For me, actual retrievable results for "not all heroes wear capes" run out at "about 254 results", while for "some heroes don't wear capes" they run out at "about 93 results". Mihia (talk) 15:04, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

Keep. Imetsia (talk) 15:13, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

• Keep, maybe not a standard proverb, but has the makings of becoming one. --Robbie SWE (talk) 18:57, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
• Keep. Not all proverbs wear doublets. Khemehekis (talk) 00:41, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
• Frankly I would Not create this, on the grounds that it does not qualify as dictionary material. Mihia (talk) 00:23, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
• Keep. Not really a sum of parts. Glades12 (talk) 10:57, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
• Never heard of it. It sounds quite pathetic though, is that grounds for deletion? DonnanZ (talk) 21:36, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
  • It's a slogan used to applaud people like front-line medical personnel who are helping everyone get through the current crisis. That's a great sentiment and well worth saying- but is it something lexical that should be covered by a dictionary? Chuck Entz (talk) 02:53, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
  • Nope. Wiktionary doesn't exclude terms just because someone doesn't like them. Glades12 (talk) 12:42, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

There are some like little brown fucking machine that I find offensive every time I come across them. DonnanZ (talk) 09:46, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Weak keep, I suppose. I find it odd to call these modern Facebookisms "proverbs", but the entry looks okay, and tautology isn't an excluding criterion (it is what it is, che sara sara). Equinox ◑ 03:45, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Kept Purplebackpack89 14:37, 8 March 2021 (UTC)