Talk:Eevee

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I stand by my prior rationale, for whoever wants to discuss/consider the issue. Sans violating T:NO RW we have no way of knowing that Eevee is a noun, as there's no reference to it outside of the title itself. "Let's go enjoy" is a perfectly valid phrase that uses a verb there, and we don't even know that said title must be grammatical. (Bare infinitives in English are nasty though, and highly context dependent.) I would love for more Pokemon references in the DWU, that is something that would delight me, but I really don't think that we can infer the existence of Eevee as a thing that exists in the DWU, even within the context of a video game, from just a title. Najawin ☎ 03:03, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

While I am doubting that it was worth creating the page, I'd like to say two things:

Let's Go Pikachu is also mentioned in Sil and the Devil Seeds of Arodor, so I find it unlikely that the duo of games would have one title include a noun, and another a verb.

Secondly, I think it's extremely hazardous to start questioning what is and isn't a noun on the Wiki. Not only is it a over-pedantic application of T:NO RW, it would also mean that before the creation of many new pages we'd have to evaluate if the page name is a noun. That's something that would reap terrible consequences across the entirety of the Wiki. So let's not start questioning nouns that are obviously nouns. Doctor Who isn't supposed to be contextless after all.

Epsilon 📯 📂

03:20, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

I have to agree with Epsilon that "is this thing which we know is a noun in English unambiguously shown to be a noun in its DWU usage" isn't a standard we've ever tried to applied to other pages. Perhaps a comparable precedent is us acknowledging "Jehoshaphat!" as an expletive rather than the Tremas Master's birth name, despite the latter verifiably being a common first assumption among first-time viewers of The Five Doctors who don't know that "Jehoshaphat!" is supposed to just be a curse. Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 03:43, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

I'll agree that the Pikachu/Eevee duality is sufficient that if others agree it can remain. I do at least think it's worth discussing and might still merit deletion, leaning towards yes. (Perhaps 60/40.) Najawin ☎ 03:47, 14 January 2021 (UTC)