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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by
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Created by Bruxton ( talk). Self-nominated at 02:13, 3 June 2022 (UTC).
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at least one inline citation to a reliable source, appearing no later than the end of the sentence(s) offering that factin the article per the eligibility criteria (this is of course trivial to fix).There are quite a few sourcing and copyediting issues. Starting with the former: Citing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as a WP:Primary source is not adequate for the etymology of the phrase.
In the 20th centuryfails verification.
The idiom is often used to describe a person who is researching a topic on the internet or exploring new things on the webisn't what the cited sources say, it's your WP:INTERPRETATION of their uses of the phrase.
The term can also be used to describe an individual's psychedelic experience.is not remotely what the source says. The source says that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been interpreted as representing a psychedelic experience.
The idiom is also used to describe drug use, and the experience of an addict.again isn't what the cited source says, but your WP:INTERPRETATION of how the source uses the phrase.Moving on to copyediting: The first sentence should start with a non-bolded "Going" or "Falling" (take your pick) and
(idiom)should be removed.
English languageis used attributively (both in the WP:LEAD and one of the section headings) and should therefore have a hyphen. In the "Etymology" section, neither "novel" nor "was" should be followed by commas. Rather than putting Wonderland in quotation marks, link to Wonderland (fictional country).
interested in something, usually by accident; and oftenis an odd choice of punctuation with (what at least appears to be) a parenthetical phrase surrounded by a comma on one side and a semicolon on the other. Replace with two commas, two spaced en dashes, or two unspaced em dashes. It is not clear to me why the second paragraph in the "Etymology" section is not in the "English language uses" section instead, but perhaps there is a good reason. In the "English language uses" section,
Many websites are designed to keep users engaged. Websites which are most successful at keeping a user's attention are described as "rabbit holes".would read a lot better if condensed into a single sentence without needlessly repeating a lot of the information. This is a recurring problem with the article: it could be condensed a lot without losing any information.
falling down a rabbit hole often suggests that a person engaged in a guilty pleasure— tense mismatch. The "Pop culture" subsection only presents examples of the phrase being used without any analysis thereof. The section should either be rewritten to include analysis or removed entirely. See MOS:POPCULT about these kinds of sections. TompaDompa ( talk) 10:30, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved ( non-admin closure) >>> Extorc. talk 06:28, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
Down the rabbit hole (idiom) → Down the rabbit hole – WP:DIFFCAPS (only use of this idiom that is lowercase). DigitalIceAge ( talk) 07:04, 7 June 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. >>> Extorc. talk 11:16, 14 June 2022 (UTC)