Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Riding coattails


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The result was merge to Coattail effect. And added a link to ride the coattails. (non-admin closure)  Ya  sh  !   12:21, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

Riding coattails

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Dictionary definition of an idiom. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 07:26, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect to ride the coattails. This is the most relevant Wiktionary entry I can find. sst  ✈  08:11, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. North America1000 08:26, 13 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Redirect to List of political metaphors, where it is listed, and change that link to point to Wiktionary, which others in the list do. It seems possible that a whole article could be built, but if that were the case, the article title would be something broader than "riding coattails". And there's nothing here beyond a WP:DICDEF. &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 16:32, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
 * I just piped that link on "List of political metaphors" to point to coattail effect which is more relevant. Mark Schierbecker (talk) 06:30, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Merge into coattail effect, which has more detail about the phenomenon. Andrew D. (talk) 17:49, 13 January 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — UY Scuti Talk  19:07, 20 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Merge content into coattail effect and add links to ride the coattails at top of that page. Dkendr (talk) 15:30, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Coattail effect and link to ride the coattails as suggested by Dkendr above.--Ddcm8991 (talk) 02:36, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge into Coattail effect. That article is the primary one for this subject, this one is only a dictionary definition which we don't do. As mentioned before, Coattail effect can receive a link to the Wiktionary page on the subject.Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 12:02, 27 January 2016 (UTC)


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