Talk:TL;DR

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I'm not sure if this one should count as a Stub, it was long enough and I read it. 86.29.21.216 (talk) 23:31, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Is this necessary?

Should this article really exist? It's tiny and basically just a definition. HunterxEditor (talk) 16:19, 3 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@HunterxEditor: Yes it should. It's a large and notable phenomenon and the article is more than a definition. --Fixuture (talk) 23:32, 24 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't it be TL,DR?

The semi-colon is used to either list items or contrast and differentiate; the comma can be used to can expound a statement, so this seems grammatically incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.62.175.126 (talk) 03:47, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You are wrong. 72.200.151.15 (talk) 05:51, 10 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It may be grammatically incorrect, but it is "TL;DR", like it or not. Ceperman (talk) 07:42, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Alternative Meaning

TL;DR is also numerous places referred to as "Tag for Later; Defer Reading" Every place I have ever seen it, going back at least to the late 1980s, it meant Too Long; Didn't Read. HoggyDog (talk) 01:17, 30 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting. I was in the computing industry for 45 years and I've never seen this usage. For me it's only ever meant "too long; didn't read". Ceperman (talk) 07:44, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Much Older Than 2003 Origin Cited

This did not originate as an Internet expression or trope- it was in common use in internal and external emails, before the internet was "a thing," at my Fortune 100 corporation (and others) from at least 1988 when I was promoted to Management and moved from Florida Sales to Atlanta Headquarters. Since it was already in use and universally understood when I got there in 1988, it had to have originated some time earlier than that. I apologize that I am not able to find a citation to corroborate my anecdotal recollection - most of the references I can find cite this article almost word-for-word - but I remember it distinctly because of the angst of trying to pretend I understood it when I didn't, a new manager afraid to ask for fear of betraying how little I actually knew about corporate culture and "common knowledge subjects." HoggyDog (talk) 01:17, 30 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to wiktionary

This article seems like a prime example of a glorified dictref, having neither much content nor room for expansion - as has been noted previously, it's very difficult to imagine how this would look as a Good Article. Even though the AfD was closed as keep, the closer agreed that the arguments for keeping were very weak and only saw the article useful as a wiki-jargon explanation. This explanation can be retained, however, with a link to WP:Too long; didn't read. CheeseBuffet (talk) 13:22, 9 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There's definitely room for expansion but in the meantime the article is much more useful than a redirect to Wiktionary. I'll see if I can work on it soon, but no promises. -- Tavix ^(talk) 13:45, 16 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]