Talk:Moving the goalposts

Move page
This article needs to be moved to "moving the goalposts" as that is the expression, not "move the goalpost". (See online and paper dictionaries.) &mdash; Paul G (talk) 12:45, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Yes. Done boldly. HiLo48 (talk) 12:49, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Absurd names
Uh, "Sybil Antwhisper"? I recognize that we'll eventually be a multi-planet civilization, but we haven't gotten there yet.

destabilisation/setting up to fail technique
It is also a destabilisation/setting up to fail technique where for example workplace instructions keep changing, maybe in a contradictory way, often even without being informed. --Penbat (talk) 18:58, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

Cite support questioned
A good sentence was removed because the cited source does not support it:
 * "This attempts to leave the impression that an argument had a fair hearing while actually reaching a preordained conclusion." → not verified by Jef Clark et al. (2005). Humbug! The Skeptic’s Field Guide to Spotting Fallacies in Thinking, p. 92?

With better cite support, it could be restored. --Ansei (talk) 17:53, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

The first attested use..?
Seems unlikely the first attested use is as recent as 1987. This one is from 1984... http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=dZUEAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wjADAAAAIBAJ&dq=moving%20the%20goalposts&pg=2294%2C1285167 - Format (talk) 07:00, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

Checklist investigation
It should not be confused with checklist investigative where a number of questions need to be answered and substantiated first, before drawing a conclusion. --105.0.5.157 (talk) 10:05, 22 November 2020 (UTC)