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This is from the "The Market for Lemons" page:
"The term "lemon," meaning a defective (typically used) car, did not enter the language of economics as a result of this paper. Instead, it came from the famous "Lemon" Volkswagen advertisement of the 1960s."
Well, it doesn't look good when one page links to another that contradicts it. I'll remove the "entered the language" part but keep the link to the article.
Also removed the following for they do not belong on a "Lemon" disambiguation page. These are topics which include the word "lemon", but are not senses of of the word "lemon" that correspond to encyclopedic topics whose articles could logically be titled simply "Lemon":
The following discussion is an archived discussion of a
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Oppose Isn't the citrus limon the main form of
lemon? The fruit is surely the primary search target. Also, if you're suggesting that Wikipedia articles are about the fruit, then the proposed taget
Lemon (fruit) doesn't really make sense.
84.92.117.93 (
talk)
19:03, 13 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Something was wrong with the bot ... the movereq template looks okay but the bot-generated summary is mixed up. I have fixed it, I hope. Also, I think 84.92.117.93 is correct: the article is about the species, not the fruit. If (when) someone removes tangents concerning derivative products, what will remain is a species page. --
Una Smith (
talk)
22:11, 13 January 2010 (UTC)reply
I don't completely understand. The movereq doesn't list
Citrus limon, your intended target for
Lemon. It's slightly weird how one of the two is listed on top in the text and another in the {{movereq}} and on
WP:RM, but not sure whether that's your problem.
Ucucha22:19, 13 January 2010 (UTC)reply
The RM bot notice below suggests something is wrong, yes. I changed the movereq template now; hope that sorts things out for the bot.
Ucucha22:22, 13 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose. The fruit/plant is the primary meaning.
WP:FLORA does not require separate articles for the fruit and the plant and separation not necessary in this case (the article is only 15K). — AjaxSmack 04:57, 14 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose the fruit is primary meaning, and whatever the incoming links say, Wikipedia is not representative of common usage, since many common topics get deleted from Wikipedia due to (A) not a recipe book (B) not a compendium of all human work and knowledge no matter how itrivial (C) etc. The use of incoming links to justify renaming the primary meaning to a dab is not supportable in ever.
76.66.197.17 (
talk)
05:16, 14 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose. A lemon is a fruit; that is a compelling primary use. So long as the fruit and the plant taxon are treated in a single article, the article should be at
Lemon. If you want to split the article into a fruit article and a taxon article, go right ahead: but leave the fruit article at
Lemon.
Hesperian06:50, 14 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Comment - Una Smith seems to suggest that the current article Lemon (to be renamed Citrus limon) is not an article on the fruit, which is what she wants fixed. The article certainly looks like it's about both the plant and the fruit (including culinary use). Is there information about the fruit which is only in other articles, and which should be moved to this main article? That seems a more user-friendly solution.
86.178.229.168 (
talk)
19:14, 17 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Comment. I reorganized the subject headings, but left the cleanup flag intact. The changes I made do not resolve this discussion, but the page does look different.
Obankston (
talk)
07:41, 18 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose with an essentially "not now" reason, to start with. There seems to be some concern about organizational structure, which should be addressed prior to considering any RM's. I do hav eto say as well that the "Intuitively obvious primary topic" !votes above are fairly compelling as well. —
V = I * R (
talk to Ohms law)
07:56, 18 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose Don't be so bloody ridiculous! How many people going into their local shop would ask for a Citrus limon? They want lemons, which is exactly what this ludicrous proposal deserves!
Skinsmoke (
talk)
12:36, 19 January 2010 (UTC)reply
Oppose A lemon is a lemon. Clear case of primary use for the fruit, although it should be noted that in the colloquial Welsh of north Wales a lemon can also mean a fruitcake...
Enaidmawr (
talk)
23:49, 19 January 2010 (UTC)reply
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