Talk:Gone for a Burton

Not a neologism

The phrase actually exists, according to Yahoo! Answers. However, Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Favonian (talk) 10:45, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

I'd be interested to see what falling on one's underscores looks like ... 81.111.114.131 (talk) 03:19, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

This is a failed article

Prior to my coming here today, the article had a single reference—a statement indicating that the editor's father had related the story that he had transcribed into the text of the article.

That is to say, the entire article was WP:OR, self-admittedly by the editor (see the diff cited in the article tags here, [1]).

Here is the content that was removed:

"The writer's father David Kennedy was directly involved in this programme and used to relate these facts. It is not known if there is any written confirmation of this."

In addition, the article...

• does not give a broad meaning of the title expression, which means, per the Cambridge Idioms Dictionary, 2nd ed. Copyright ©Cambridge University Press, 2006, "to be broken, spoiled or dead," see [2], accessed 28 May 2015.
• does not present a lede, or otherwise address title subject,
• addresses only the etymology of the phrase in its one long paragraph, and then, as noted, sourcing personal correspondence (an editor's father's story),
• as a story, this substantive portion reads like a father's story, and
• so it is, on the whole, completely unreferenced and so unverifiable.

So, I removed the OR statement and placed the Expert, Cleanup, and multiple issue tags, to draw the broadest possible attention to this rubbish. Please remove tags only when the issue are dealt with. As far as I am concerned, the whole could be removed, and the single line drawn from the Cambridge Idioms Dictionary could be placed in, and a great service would be done the reading public and the encyclopedia. Le Prof 71.201.62.200 (talk) 02:43, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

'Gone for a Burton' actually means 'gone for a beer' as until quite recently a large proportion of beer in the UK was manufactured in Burton-on-Trent (something to do with the purity of the water) and is also the home of IPA (India Pale Ale) QuentinUK (talk) 01:04, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

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