Talk:brainworm

RFV discussion: March–April 2023

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brainworm

Rfv-sense

Two things.

• 1. The three quotes given for sense 5 seem like they're just contextual uses of sense 4.
• 2. I'm pretty sure we don't allow quotes from Twitter in the first place

--Simplificationalizer (talk) 02:39, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

I agree the current citations don't seem to evince a distinct sense. On the second point, the current policy is that they're allowed on a case-by-case basis if editors specifically agree to it. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 02:48, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

I would like to accept Twitter quotations for this entry. Ioaxxere (talk) 22:07, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

All the citations currently under sense 5 are using sense 4. Lots of kinds of people (or takes) have brainworms, and I see it used when talking about certain non-transgender people's transphobic obsessions and delusions more often than when talking about internalized transphobia. I can imagine how, if someone was only or mostly familiar with it being used when referring to trans people, they might assume it was definitionally restricted to internalized transphobia, but no, it's just sense 4. - -sche (discuss) 06:01, 6 March 2023 (UTC)

Delete, sense 5 is indistinct from sense 4 to my reading. —The Editor's Apprentice (talk) 21:10, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

RFV Resolved, definitions merged. Ioaxxere (talk) 00:22, 15 April 2023 (UTC)