Talk:Pet peeve

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This article was nominated for deletion on 2006-10-11. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

My pet peeve is people leaving their pet peeves on this talk page. --- This must be some kind of joke... Some of this content should definitely be deleted! Like the section on cell phones, just ridiculous... --thomas9987 17:49, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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moved from article To give a better picture of what a pet peeve is, below are a listing of some pet peeves.

Contents 1 Driving 2 Smoking 3 Significant Other (Man) 4 Significant Other (Woman) 5 Workplace 6 Television 7 Customer Service 8 Telemarketing 9 Neighbors 10 Wikipedia 11 Totally unencyclopedic 12 List deletion 13 Careless Deletion 14 Wikitionary? 15 explaining my pet peeve 16 This whole page should be removed

[edit] Driving

• Not using a turn signal when making a turn.
• Not using a turn signal when changing lanes.
• Driving in the left had lane slower than the traffic moving in the right hand lane. (The opposite in England, India, etc.)
• Not coming to a complete stop at stop signs.
• Driving in a middle turn lane of a five lane road.
• Following too close.
• Not driving with headlights on at dusk or at night.
• Waiting at a stop light with too much space between them and the car in front of them, or the stop line.
• When there are two or more turn lanes, all of the cars stacking in just one of the lanes.
• When there are two or more straight through lanes, all of the cars stacking in just one of the lanes.
• People leaving their turn signal on too long.
• Retreads.

[edit] Smoking

• People throwing cigarette butts on the ground.
• People throwing cigarette butts out of car windows.
• People smoking around the entrance of a no smoking building so non-smokers have to walk through the smoke.
• Smoker breath.
  
• Smoke odor on clothes.
• Smoke odor in bars/nightclubs/restaurants.
• Cigarettes on the ground next to ashtrays.
• People who smoke when they have small children.
• People who smoke while they are pregnant.
• People who smoke while pumping gasoline.
• People who smoke while driving.
• People who smoke.
• Making my health insurance rates go up.

[edit] Significant Other (Man)

• Leaving the toilet seat up after using the bathroom.

[edit] Significant Other (Woman)

• Leaving cosmetics all over the bathroom sink.

[edit] Workplace

• People who gossip more than work.
• People who schedule meetings first thing in the morning.

[edit] Television

• Breaking into a television program to give a thunderstorm warning.
• At the beginning of the break telling you that the program is being interrupted for a weather advisory. (Just go to the break, don't waste five seconds).
• At the end of the break telling you that the you will now be returned to the original programming. (Just go back to the show, don't waste five seconds)
• After each commercial break, announcing a content warning before a program resumes.

[edit] Customer Service

• Cashier that does not know how to use the register.

[edit] Telemarketing

• Calling during dinner.
• Recorded messages.
• Surveys.
• Sales pitches for things you don't need. (Vinyl siding when you live in an apartment)
• Any telemarketer call.
• Telemarketers that just hang up when you yell at them.
• Telemarketers who call repeatedly when you won't pick up the phone

[edit] Neighbors

Mowing their lawn too early.
Mowing their lawn too late.
Not mowing their lawn often enough.
Mowing their lawn too short.
Letting their dog bark outside.
Letting their dog run loose.
Letting their dog deficate in your yard.
Letting their dog mark your property as its territory.
Leaving their junk outside.
Parking vehicles on the grass.
Parking in front of your house when their house has no car in front.
Not parking in their garage because they have too much stuff stored in the garage.
Storing a motor home at their house.
Storing a boat at their house.
Parking anything that blocks the sidewalk.
Not maintaining their house or property.
Cutting down trees and limbs that previously blocked the view of their poorly maintained property or that of another neighbors.
Draining their pool so chlorine gets on your property.
Playing music too loud.
Having too many parties.
Revving the engine of their Harley-Davidson.
Revving the engine of their Hot Rod.
Not respecting property lines. (Doing their stuff on your property)
Leaving holiday decorations out too long.
Putting holiday decorations out too early.
Not using curtains or blinds. (Please no one needs to see that)
Staring at you when you are outside.
Staring at you when you are inside.
Telling you what you should do on your property. (Isn't this one ironic)

[edit] Wikipedia

Stubs.
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None of this is cited to a source and, by its nature, is very difficult to verify; furthermore I am not sure this article is served by listing the pet peeves of Wikipedians, which so far seem to be the only source for its contents. Therefore I have removed the list. —No-One Jones 03:27, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Let's remove this now. It's not really more encyclopedic than "things I don't like very much". DJ Clayworth 18:19, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

I've added the origin of the word - the only "encyclopedic" thing about this entry... The list does not belong here. slaman 22 October 2005

[edit] Totally unencyclopedic

The giant list presented here is utterly unencyclopedic. Either it needs references, or it ought to be removed. Generally, we don't need people adding their favorite pet peeves. Christopher Parham (talk) 03:57, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

• Removed for now--warning was given a half-year ago, see above. Christopher Parham (talk) 04:02, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
  • I don't blame you for removing the list. However, I must confess I kind of liked it. Personally, I think it would be OK for notable pet peeves to be listed, provided they are referenced and given some kind of cultural context. (For example, famous people's famous pet peeves, pet peeves of well-known fictional characters, etc.) What this shouldn't be is just a list of particular people's particular pet peeves. dbtfz^talk 04:06, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
    • The bare minimum requirement is reputable sourcing, beyond that can be discussed as it comes. None of the deleted content was useful, though, IMO. Christopher Parham (talk) 04:14, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

I got some spam posting to my User page to come "support the examples of Pet peeves you helped create". I didn't "help create" anything, I corrected the incorrect lack of hyphenation in name of a motorcycle manufacturer (a correction I had to re-apply for some reason here on the talk page). That's all. I think the list should be deleted. It's the stuff of low-rent blogs.boinger 14:22, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List deletion

The list has been deleted (again) per policies described at What Wikipedia is not: Lists or repositories of loosely associated topics such as quotations, aphorisms or persons. OhNoitsJamie^Talk 22:43, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Careless Deletion

I would like to put this issue to rest. Since this article was created a few users have written on the talk page that they do not like the list, and then promptly delete it. These actions ignore the contributions of dozens of other Wikipedians [[1]]. It has been stated that it violates the policies described at What Wikipedia is not. I have read the policies, and it does not violate them.

I watch this article, along with others, and when someone indiscriminately deletes much of the content without having engaged in discussion, I have reverted it back. Certainly there are a few who do not like the listing. This does not provide them the right to indiscriminately delete. There are far more users who have contributed to the article, but have not participated on the talk page.

I prefer Wikipedians to focus on adding to the content of Wikipedia rather than deletion of the work of many others. Please be considerate of others and give the deletionism a rest. PoolGuy 18:17, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

• More importantly, the list violates the core policies WP:V and WP:NOR. This was pointed out about six months ago and remains uncorrected, indeed since then the problem just expanded. If you want to bring the material into line with those policies, then give it a try, but until then there seems to be a substantial consensus that the material is unsuitable. Christopher Parham (talk) 19:50, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
• Note that the removed content has been pasted into List of Pet peeves. android79 05:12, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikitionary?

Shouldn't this be moved to wikitionary (or at least have a link to the term there)? - IstvanWolf 14:17, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] explaining my pet peeve

(i am also User:MPN but i'm not logged in)

I believe my only pet peeve i put in here was "Frequent Emergency Broadcast System tests". I believe this is an excellent example under televisoin and radio because most people I know hate these tests. I wouldn't put in something like the "sudden images of Paris Hilton" or anything along those lines because things like that are simply jokes.

I'd put the list back in, but remove the ones few or no people would not like.24.51.172.23 22:13, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

The list sucks, it doesn't even belong on the talk page. Just Another Fat Guy 03:28, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This whole page should be removed

The entire article is biased and unencyclopedic and should be locked from future edits.—This unsigned comment was added by 67.167.222.177 (talk • contribs) .

• What particular problems do you think have to be rectified. Christopher Parham (talk) 02:36, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

rotsky! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.228.95.132 (talk) 23:44, 19 September 2007 (UTC)