Talk:Stalking horse/Archives/2016

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I get that "stalking horse" has its own etymology and history but in practice "stalking horse" is just a pejorative term for "test run", which is the more common term. The page should be emended to address the simpler phrasing and then moved to it. — $Llywelyn II$ 23:00, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Test Run is more from an economic/science perspective part of a Quality Assurance process and a different meaning to Stalking Horse. Your graph also shows Stalking Horse term has been in use since 1658 whereas Test Run was first used at the start of the 18th century but not in regular usage until the end of the 19th. Since a perjorative term means one that is made worse to apply a negative connotation then its impossible for it to be a pejorative of Test Run as the usage of stalking horse far predates it and didn't decline when the other term came in to regular use. WatcherZero (talk) 01:40, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Nonsensical

This article is nonsensical. According to any dictionary: stalking-horse n. 1. Something used to cover one's true purpose; a decoy. 2. A sham candidate put forward to conceal the candidacy of another or to divide the opposition.

Why is there an article on this anyway? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.211.210 (talk) 13:46, 28 September 2016 (UTC)

Whoever created the article, it seems like it meets WP:NEO as a political term. What do you mean by "nonsensical"? --McGeddon (talk) 14:23, 28 September 2016 (UTC)