Talk:MRDA (slang)

This appears to be conflating two articles into one, confusingly

Is the Mandy Rice-Davis Test a notable enough "thing" to warrant its own article?

I've removed the stuff that seems to be advertising an Indian training company, but I think it would be better merged into the main Mandy Rice-Davies article. mh. (talk) 20:00, 21 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Lead is still misleading

The current wording says: '... is Internet slang meaning "well he would say that, wouldn't he?"' But this is not the meaning of the Internet meme. It's the meaning of the (mis-quoted) original statement in the context of a legal case. This is a general semantics error, like confusing the map with the territory, or mistaking the menu for the meal.

I fixed this, with '... is Internet slang indicating "Well, he/she/they would obviously say that, don't you think?"', which is an accurate description of the meaning of the Internet meme, which is broadly applied to various situations, not to men in particular.

PBS reverted with a strange comment, "the statement is a quote and capitalising the A in applies is usual", and seems to have been inspired to do this by an unrelated, ongoing (and off-topic) dispute at WP:MR. The statement is not a quote, and what the original statement actually was is not the meaning of the Internet meme, which is the actual subject of the article.

PS: I agree with the 2015 poster above that this likely is not a WP:Notable topic. It should probably be taken to WP:AFD, as typical Internet slang-cruft (i.e., WP:NOT#DICTIONARY). A concise entry for it can be added to the woefully under-developed Glossary of Internet-related terms (or a split-off Glossary of Internet slang, if we want to separate technical and professional jargon from end-user jargon). I think that list article is in such a sorry state because it was miscategorized (rather, under-categorized), such that virtually on one would find it unless they went to Category:Wikipedia glossaries which is more of an internal maintenance category than a reader-facing one. (I fixed the categorization issue.)
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