Talk:lemming logic

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Can we find citations that show that this is in use and either an idiom or not? DCDuring TALK 16:59, 6 May 2010 (UTC)Reply

Lazy man cites: b.g.c
  • Happy ending: a novel‎ - Francesca Duranti - Fiction - 1991 - 165 pages
How could a panettone, itself a product of lemming logic, stave off the senseless accumulation of waste, the mad flight of a present without memory and...
  • The Music of Thought in the Poetry of George Oppen and William Bronk‎ - Henry Weinfield - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 241
... in which one "nation" or "people" has risen up in war against others until it too succumbed to the lemming logic in which it was enmeshed. ...
  • A Chalice of Miracles‎ - John W. Casperson - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 620 pages
But then, applying lemming logic to mass media, why should attention given to a deranged assassin be any different from a deranged religi-bomber who ...
There are piles and piles of groups cites out there too (some of which are quite humorous) but I think it is probably a reasonable keep. - DaveRoss 16:57, 29 May 2010 (UTC)Reply
Cited IMHO — I've just added all five b.g.c. hits, of which four seem to be valid uses — but I would not oppose deletion. I see no evidence that this is a set phrase, much less an idiom. Move to RFD? —RuakhTALK 23:02, 26 September 2010 (UTC)Reply

RFV passed.RuakhTALK 20:03, 21 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

Deletion debate

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lemming logic

This is too rare, and the occurrences of it too far-flung, for me to believe that it's a real idiom. Rather, it's a straightforward use of the figurative sense of lemming. B.G.C. also turns up a use of "lemming argument", at least a dozen uses of "lemming approach", and so on. —RuakhTALK 20:07, 21 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

Delete per nom. DCDuring TALK 22:57, 21 October 2010 (UTC)Reply
BTW, this is also synonymous or nearly so with "sheep logic", "herd logic", "crowd logic", and "mob logic". DCDuring TALK 23:09, 21 October 2010 (UTC)Reply
Delete. Mglovesfun (talk) 23:10, 21 October 2010 (UTC)Reply
In the discussion on luna kratero, user:Widsith said "delete " about this entry also.​—msh210 (talk) 17:33, 22 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

Deleted but preserving citations. DAVilla 10:10, 27 October 2010 (UTC)Reply