[WikiEN-l] NPOV and alleged phenomenon

Fri Dec 17 16:12:43 UTC 2004

> > Ex, you are making a strawhorse argument.  You are trying
> > to deligitimize my basic argument by focusing on one
> > example sentence that doesn't even exist in any article!
>
>Is the word strawman/strawhorse argument a purely wikimedia thing,
>because i had never heard the phrase before i subscribed to these
>lists?

Strawman argument is commonly used outside of Wikipedia.  I've never heard 
of a strawhorse argument before.