Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gold-collar worker


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The result was delete. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 05:17, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Gold-collar worker

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Wikipedia is not a dictionary WP:NOT and outside of the book that coined this term it appears it has not received significant coverage or usage. WP:SIGCOV I can find a few examples of usage but most seem more intended to introduce the term than use it generally. ex. Havard Business Review This article seems to more be promotional of this as jargon in that sense than encyclopedic. There are some conflicting definitions when you search "Gold collars are found in specialized fields of law and medicine – a reference, perhaps, to the high salaries these professions command." "a neologism which has been used to describe either young, low-wage workers who invest in conspicuous luxury, or highly skilled knowledge workers, traditionally classified as white collar, but who have recently become essential enough to business operations as to warrant a new classification." see self.gutenberg.org/articles/Gold-collar_worker "A gold-collar worker is a highly skilled multidisciplinarian who combines the mind of a white-collar worker with the hands of a blue-collar employee. Armed with a solid grounding in mathematics and science (physics, chemistry, and biology), these “gold-collar” workers—so named for their contributions to their companies and to the economy, as well as for their personal earning ability—apply that knowledge to technology." A page on Wikipedia copying the definition word for word from the Havard Business Review article linked above. Phil (talk) 00:11, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. Phil (talk) 00:11, 4 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete definitely not-a-dictionary material. This is the kind of thing that seems to exist on wikipedia so someone can use it by claiming "well it's on wikipedia..." Ericwg (talk) 02:47, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. One tin-collar WP:NEOLOGISM that no one is rushing to spread. Clarityfiend (talk) 18:51, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. This term is not in particularly common use, and when it is used it doesn't necessarily carry the meaning described here. For example, this article describes Carlos Ghosn, former chairman of Nissan, as "typical of the ‘gold-collar workers’ – the cadre of top bosses who have multi-million pound pay packages, couture-clad second wives and private jets." Yet this article says that "Gold-collar workers need the mind of a white-collar worker but the hands of a blue-collar one .... Think of the maintenance technician who repairs aircraft systems at Southwest Airlines; the manufacturing technician at Intel; and the medical technologist who operates laboratory equipment and analyzes test results at Memorial Hermann Cancer Center." Two quite different uses, but neither of them matches the use in this article. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:15, 5 June 2019 (UTC)


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