Talk:quadriga
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Rfv-sense: "symbol of the Sun". The god of the Sun may run a quadriga, but quadriga does not generally mean "symbol of the sun" - AFAIK, that is. --Hekaheka 13:11, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
- No defenders, proceeding to delete the sense. --Hekaheka 10:48, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
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Sense: A sculptural form featuring a representation of the subject riding a quadriga.
I did not read the citations as referring to the figure of the person, rather than the chariot, the team of horse, or both together. Whether it also clearly refers metonymically to the charioteer as well would be unsurprising, but hardly entry worthy. Further, quite apart from the apparent circularity, which could be remedied, to include this as a separate sense would be a precedent for including additional senses for every noun used to refer to something represented in an imagined or represented world (painting, sculpture, computer game, advertisement, film). Thus (deprecated template usage) man. DCDuring TALK 23:59, 17 April 2011 (UTC) IFYPFY.—msh210℠ (talk) 22:01, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
- Yes, delete. --Hekaheka 13:17, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
- Weak keep - this refers to a class of scuplture known after a particularly famous one. I would normally agree with deletion completely, along the lines that "lion" defined as "a scultpure of a lion" is an unnecessary definition. But a quadriga seems to be a special case of a class of sculptures, like nudes, busts, etc. I say "weak" keep because (offhand) I can't think of another class of scultpure so narrowly focussed ("landscape" comes to mind in painting), but in modern English "quadriga" more often refer to a sculpture than to an actual chariot team, which is the reverse of most other concrete nouns that might be rendered in art. --EncycloPetey 20:19, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
- "in modern English "quadriga" more often refer to a sculpture than to an actual chariot team" - it may depend on the fact that in modern world one sees the sculptures more often than actual chariot teams. --Hekaheka 22:42, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
- Weak delete: this seems like (as I recently mentioned re (deprecated template usage) catgirl) having a sense for tree meaning "a model of a tree made of metal, plastic, etc.". My vote is "weak" because I don't really know the word and EncycloPetey seems to know something we don't. Equinox ◑ 21:55, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
deleted -- Liliana • 03:31, 4 March 2012 (UTC)