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The result was redirect to Glossary of video game terms#spray and pray. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 19:12, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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This is almost entirely unsourced and has been tagged as such since 2007. My own searching finds tons of usages of the term, but almost no reliable secondary sources which talk about this in any substantial way. I found this CBS News article which I'd consider a good source, but only for the marketing use of the term. I have no doubt that most of what our current article says about firearms is true, but it's all basically WP:OR with no backing sources. The term is also used in photography, and probably other fields as well, but again, I'm not finding the kinds of sources we need.

This needs to either be deleted, or rewritten from scratch. I can't recommend moving it to draft space; if 13 years of being tagged for improvement in mainspace didn't work, moving to draft isn't going to fix it either. -- RoySmith (talk) 14:46, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:28, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Video games-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:28, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Glossary of video game terms verified enough to be listed there (at least for the video game sense. I don't know if there's a military concept page to drop to). --Masem (t) 20:31, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Interwiki redirect to Wiktionary, per WP:NOTDICTIONARY. A lot of the current references seem like SYNTH._{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 06:52, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Reads like a bloated dictionary definition. Nigej (talk) 17:28, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Glossary of video game terms#spray and pray, where I just added an entry from a new source. There is no Wiktionary entry, so that point is moot. czar 06:48, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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