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Disambiguating "Straw Man"

This content comes from the original "Straw Man" article, which has now been disambiguated into several articles. For a full history up until March 6, 2006, see Straw man. -- MisterHand 03:33, 7 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Correct term

Throughout the article, the subject is referred to as "Straw man proposal", "Straw-man proposal" and "Strawman proposal". Does anyone know which one is generally preferred? 83.227.162.5 (talk) 01:47, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Grammatically correct is "straw-man proposal", "'straw man' proposal", or "strawman proposal". But "straw man proposal" appears often enough in the sources cited. Tijfo098 (talk) 14:02, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Origin

I think it originates with the US Air Force, which in the 1950s used "straw man" to refer to a crash test dummy. Popular Science. April 1950. p. 106. From test dummy to test proposal it's not a huge cognitive step. I wasn't able to find a secondary reference saying it though. There is one which says that the Air Force used "straw man" to refer to initial proposals in the 1970s, and I've added that to the article. Tijfo098 (talk) 13:50, 18 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposed merge of Steelman language requirements into Straw man proposal

Stub page for a single Ada development stage (out of 9; other 8 do not have pages). Hexware (talk) 15:24, 24 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ada (programming language)#History would be a more specific and, I think, better, target.Klbrain (talk) 14:29, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]