Talk:Elephant-built bridge

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Elephant-built bridge ("my" title) and elephant bridge (an established term)[edit]

   I'm a tad uncomfortable about my use of "Elephant-built bridge" (AKA "my" [initial] title). (It may be, BTW, conspicuous that i used it only as the title, and not within the article. I specifically avoided using the wording of "my" title as a phrase within the article, and believe my having done so lessens the likelihood of users falsely inferring that it's an established term.) "Elephant bridge" is an established, but ambiguous term, and i doubt that the accompanying article's topic could qualify as PT for that title.
   On reflection, tho, i'm inclined to rename to Elephant(-built) bridge: E-b b fails to directly partake of our established WP Dab-ing idiom (in contrast to the even clumsier Elephant bridge (elephant-built) or Elephant bridge (elephant-built bridge), which arguably would!), but should evoke it, and is IMO clearly countenanced under the PT provision for what might be called "the circumlocution catch-all": i haven't refreshed my memory on it, but it says something to the effect of "other wording that serves to Dab'ate".
   Of course, there may be an even better idea out there.
--Jerzyt 18:41, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]