Talk:Cutty-sark (witch)

message: Why is the title hyphenated? It is inconsistent with the rest of the article. 203.214.112.124 12:56, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Comment The article Cutty sark is an already well established page about the ship. I believe the article is hyphenated following the original quote from Tam. I'm removing the move template (since it can't be moved to an existing page), please feel free add another request if another title is suggested! --Lox (t,c) 20:56, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: hyphenated

message: Possibly I'm being thick, but can someone explain in what sense the phrase "Cutty Sark is a Freudian slip" is a triple or quadruple pun?  It seems to me to be a simple pun on slip (= 1. lapse, 2. undergarment).  To look for more is surely squeezing a joke beyond limits of its humorous productivity.  Anyway, does this joke belong in the article?  It doesn't elucidate the cultural constellation and seems to me to be nothing more than a quick laugh for its own sake.  --Doric Loon 15:45, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree and have removed Another reference, "Cutty Sark is a Freudian slip," is a rare quadruple pun and is unclear in origin. from the article. If anyone wishes to revert, please feel free to do so, but please explain here! --Lox (t,c) 16:17, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pun

message: There is a list of "other uses" here, but it seems to me that this belongs on the disambiguation page.  Should this be merged?
-Leevclarke 13:04, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Other Uses

message: The cutty-sark is not a character in the poem, it is an article of clothing worn by Nannie. Tam 'congratulates' the cutty-sark for enabling him to see far too much of Nannie, who had worn the said garment from an early age when she was smaller. Upon reading the poem if people think I have misinterpreted the lines please let me know. --Edmund Patrick 20:01, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I reverted your change in the text before I noticed you had written here - normally I would answer discussion first.  I think that is ingenious, and of course poetry can be interpreted may ways, but I am pretty sure that is not the normal reading. To me the name cutty-sark, in line 189 is his form of address to the girl for whom he knows no other name. (As opposed to line 171, where it is clearly a common noun.)  The capitalisation and the hyphenation both support this.  --Doric Loon 20:31, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cutty-sark

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: not moved. There isn't a consensus that this isn't the primary topic, and some editors argue it may also be the ship, the area of Greenwich around the ship's dry-dock, or even the whiskey.
There is a suggestion for something like "Cutty-sark (fictional character)", but with several options along those lines suggested, I don't feel comfortable randomly picking one; I suggest a second RM be opened to determine a more clear consensus, to which this RM closure should not prejudice. (closed by non-admin page mover) Sceptre (talk) 22:51, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Cutty-sark (witch) →  – Users opposed to the previous move proposal focused on the fact that the subject "is" a witch, ignoring MOS:REALWORLD, which says that Wikipedia presents topics from a , describing fictional characters  rather than according to their in-universe qualities. Witches aren't real, so according to this guideline "witch" shouldn't be used as a disambiguator. For comparison, none of the other titles in :Category:Fictional witches use the term "witch" except as part of a proper noun.   is unambiguous per WP:DIFFCAPS. --Sangdeboeuf (talk) 12:58, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably not, but modern televised fiction keeps the horrific and threatening exterior alive as well, so it has never gone away (and clearly is profitable for the media). It's a good way of hiding information in plain sight, kind of like the Church of the Subgenius material which uses the traditional techniques of chasing away almost all curious readers before they talk about the real stuff. But my 'support' was for making the exact wording and styling 'Cutty-sark' primary, as proposed in the nom, as it is the namesake of all the others. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:25, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

text: Relisting comment: Primary topic debate is still raging. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 20:00, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

text: Relisting comment: Another question is whether "(witch)" is an appropriate qualifier. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 20:16, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 29 October 2022