Talk:Germaine Greer

External Links (last link listed): YouTube, Leeds Beckett University
This link is no longer available according to YouTube. I found only one working link to this interview, but it is on Wiki's blacklist, even though the link itself works via the YouTube handle dabbywabby1979. FYI, I could not find a comparable link on Leeds Beckett's YouTube channel. In light of this, should this external link be deleted all together and perhaps another link added to another interview? Epictetus68 (talk) 11:13, 5 May 2023 (UTC)

Clarification note
I have removed the clarification note that has just been added. I believe the meaning of the word "spiked" in this context is well-known and perfectly described what happens in these circumstances. Perry Middlemiss (talk) 02:58, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Per my edit summary, I do not. Is it a colloquialism? On grounds of encyclopedic tone alone it is unsuitable. At best it is ambiguous. I asked if the intention was "tampered with? ceased? sabotaged?". If it is one of these, these terms are clear and unambiguous. "Spiked" is not. Mutt Lunker (talk) 10:30, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I've looked at online versions of the American Heritage, Cambridge, Chambers, Collins, Merriam-Webster and Longman dictionaries and a hard copy of Macquarie. Collins, only, lists "Journalism slang- to refuse (a story) by or as if by placing on a spindle". This as its 22nd listing for the verb, for American English, 13th for British English. Not one of the others does (Dictionary.com does but Collins is the source). We should not be using slang terms in an encyclopedia, particularly not apparently fairly obscure ones, so far down the list of possible other meanings of the word. I'll change it to "refused". Mutt Lunker (talk) 20:29, 6 June 2024 (UTC)