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Sure they're used, but are they idiomatic enought to have their own entries? --Robbie SWE (talk) 17:30, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
- oldest occupation looks like a prime example of an idiomatic expression to me. Starting with the fact that prostution is, of course, not the historically oldest occupation. (That's hunter-gatherer.) So definitely keep. One may consider deleting the other two versions, though. Kolmiel (talk) 20:52, 11 April 2017 (UTC)
- Yes, keep oldest occupation, delete all others. Similarly for variants of "oldest profession". SemperBlotto (talk) 05:26, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
- Agreed, the first one should in this case be kept. --Robbie SWE (talk) 19:01, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
Keep all three. They're all idiomatic. PseudoSkull (talk) 21:06, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
- Keep "oldest occupation": it is not a semantic sum of oldest and occupation, in which regard it is like oldest profession. The other two items can be argued to be sums of parts with respect to oldest occupation; hard-redirecting them would be an option other than deletion. If I were arguing as a devil's advocate for deletion, I would say that "oldest occupation" is obtained from "oldest profession" by synonym replacement, which makes it a certain kind of summation, meaning the idiomatic semantics would be taken from "oldest profession", but I do not find that argument convincing enough. Interestingly, “oldest occupation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. finds nothing, whereas “oldest profession”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. finds Merriam-Webster[1] and en.oxforddictionaries.com[2]. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:45, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
- Delete the last two. - -sche (discuss) 07:27, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
- Keep all three Purplebackpack89 11:14, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
- Keep the first, delete the final two. - [The]DaveRoss 11:34, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
Kept as to oldest occupation; deleted as to oldest occupation in the world and world's oldest occupation. bd2412 T 17:06, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
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Rfv-sense: Palestine. Can this be right? --Hekaheka (talk) 17:25, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
- There seem to be a decent number of uses referring to Palestine, but as far as I can tell all are SOP rather than used idiomatically. — Vorziblix (talk · contribs) 17:33, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
Deleted as blatant vandalism. bd2412 T 17:52, 15 September 2017 (UTC)