Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Job ticket

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The result was delete. There is a suggestion of a disambiguation page, but I don't see any justification for that, as the term is not mentioned in either of the suggested target articles (except in one case as a redirect to this article) and in any case is not in common use in English in either meaning. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 22:55, 25 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Job ticket[edit]

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The article Job ticket is about a German Pseudo-Anglicism for the phenomenon properly discussed under Free travel pass. Information about bus passes belong in that article. The only purpose of this is to highlight the German usage, but other examples of Pseudo-Anglicisms do not have their own articles - see for example Handy, which mentions the German usage only briefly as part of a disambig page. At some point in the history of the present article, the German connection was deleted, leaving the impression that this term is actually in use in the English-speaking world. As far as I can establish, it is not; and an eight-year-old request for citations has gone unanswered, which would suggest nobody else can find anything supporting the usage. I have reintroduced the German element, so that if we decide to keep it, it is at least clear what it is about. But I can't really see the point. I posted on talk page a week ago and didn't get an answer, which suggests nobody is maintaining the article. I propose deletion. --Doric Loon (talk) 17:54, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 21:04, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. Bakazaka (talk) 21:04, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment and Delete There are plenty of references in the German version, some of which seem to be primary sources, but others are secondary. Given that the term is used in German, not English (with this meaning), it would not be an appropriate English-language Wiktionary entry. It would seem possible that this meaning could be included in an article about the English meaning of the phrase, but as that doesn't exist, and in fact the only mention of the meaning I mainly use is at the top of this page ("A "job ticket" may also be a synonym for a work order.") that wouldn't be possible. I don't know if there are guidelines on which English-language terms used in other languages with a different meaning to include in the English Wikipedia, but it seems to me likely that anyone encountering it in a German-language context would think to look for it in German-language references, and it would only be useful in the English Wikipedia if someone came across it in an English-language context, which seems unlikely. So I would agree with deleting it. RebeccaGreen (talk) 04:59, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Or disambig Although I proposed deletion, I could also imagine this being a disambig pointing to both work order and Free travel pass, provided we are allowed to stress that the latter is only German usage. --Doric Loon (talk) 17:33, 21 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation would work well.

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