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Oppose While "watchman" and "watchtower" is still used in common parlance, "watchdog" seems to me to have been co-opted to refer to the type of organization. I've rarely heard anyone refer to a guard dog as a "watchdog" in common parlance. So I'd have to ask for proof that it is the primary meaning with respect to modern usage.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
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21:28, 6 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Oppose. The term is used for a number of other topics of comparable enduring notability. See also the usage data
[1]: the guard dog entry on the dab page receives less than 10% of the onward clicks, with the computing process alone getting 4x as much. –
Uanfala (talk)13:32, 7 April 2022 (UTC)reply
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Oppose While "watchman" and "watchtower" is still used in common parlance, "watchdog" seems to me to have been co-opted to refer to the type of organization. I've rarely heard anyone refer to a guard dog as a "watchdog" in common parlance. So I'd have to ask for proof that it is the primary meaning with respect to modern usage.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
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21:28, 6 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Oppose. The term is used for a number of other topics of comparable enduring notability. See also the usage data
[1]: the guard dog entry on the dab page receives less than 10% of the onward clicks, with the computing process alone getting 4x as much. –
Uanfala (talk)13:32, 7 April 2022 (UTC)reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.