Talk:Watching paint dry

Reviewer Note

I found the mention of showing a film of paint drying to the censors amusing. That is almost enough reason to accept. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:40, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Requesting acceptance, which will require history merge, which has been requested. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robert McClenon (talk • contribs) 16:17, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 20:19, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

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• ... that watching paint dry takes 10 hours? Source: Independent
  • ALT1:... that a censorship board can be forced to watch paint dry for 10 hours? Source: Independent
  • ALT2:... that watching paint dry can be scientifically important? Source: Royal Society of Chemistry

• Reviewed: Honey Badger (men's rights)
• Comment: With apologies to @Ritchie333:, if he wishes to make his own suggestions or put it in the April Fools set, I will not object

Moved to mainspace by Ritchie333 (talk). Nominated by The C of E (talk) at 17:40, 25 September 2020 (UTC).

• Personally I'd trim A1 to

ALT1b:... that the British Board of Film Classification had to watch paint dry?

EEng 03:13, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

• @Ritchie333 and The C of E: the section on etymology is WP:OR and easily disprovable.[1] --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 03:10, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

  Uh oh. EEng 03:13, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

  Here is another from 1952. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 03:21, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

  @Coffeeandcrumbs: According to @Cbl62:, Newspapers.com got it wrong and that clipping is apparently not from 1946 but from the 80s. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 09:05, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

  As an additional note, the initial alternative states that "a censorship board can be forced to watch paint dry"; the statement primarily appears to necessitate revision, as a censorship board was forced to watch paint dry, with the statement that "a censorship board can be forced" remaining particularly stylistically erroneous, within my opinion. SurenGrig07 (talk) 03:27, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

  Huh? EEng 03:34, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

• @Coffeeandcrumbs: I have made an adjustment to the Etymology section based on the source you have provided. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 06:36, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

  It's still OR. For example, does the source say that the etymology is uncertain? Maybe it's quite certain, but you just haven't run into the linguistic researcher who tracked it down. I suggest you simply drop that section. EEng 11:50, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

  The C of E, This is the source you want. Pascal Treguer is trained linguist and has been cited in several RS, therefore qualifies as an expert. The only thing missing from the Treguer blog source is the LATimes writer's name. Using a primary source for that is acceptable. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 12:33, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

  Oh, goody, that fixes it. Yes, an example from a primary sources is fine as an illustration of something established in a secondary source. EEng 12:43, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

  Warren has been dead for 7 years, so no BLP concerns.[2] --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 12:44, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

  Just out of curiosity, how could quoting a theater review possibly raise a BLP issue? EEng 14:32, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

  EEng, WP:SPS: Never use self-published sources as third-party sources about living people, even if the author is an expert, well-known professional researcher, or writer. We are implying Warren may be the source of the phrase. I am just crossing every t and dotting every i for the crazies at ERRORS. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 19:37, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

  I'd call that an overanxious application of the guideline. In any event it would be easily fixed, if the guy were still alive and kicking, to simply omit his name and say, "The earliest dxample found by researcher X was in a 19xx theater review." EEng 00:22, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

• BTW, I am not just poking holes. I am doing the review. --- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 12:49, 26 September 2020 (UTC)
  • @Coffeeandcrumbs: I've updated it with the source provided. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 06:38, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
    • New enough and long enough. No apparent issues of sourcing or close paraphrasing. EarWig's shows no problems. ALT1, ALT2, and Alt1b are hooky and cited in-line. ALT0 should only be used for APRILFOOLS, as it is technically disingenuous unless we say "watching Paint Drying". I have a slight preference for ALT2 and ALT1b but I also like the "for 10 hours" bit from ALT1.--- C&C (Coffeeandcrumbs) 07:40, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

So badly written

This is probably one of the worst written (and most pointless) articles I’ve seen in a long time. No decent entomology for the term (just some original research) and a series of stubby paragraphs that may as well be done as bullet points. It feels like the bottom of the barrel has been scraped with this, although there should be a very short explanation of the term and it’s origins (possibly only on the Wiki dictionary). That this is on the front page shows just how poor Wiki can be when people try to hard for some front page validation. - 213.205.194.143 (talk) 22:22, 5 October 2020 (UTC)