Talk:Stump speech

Requested move 5 March 2020

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The result of the move request was: Moved per consensus. (non-admin closure) – Ammarpad (talk) 07:51, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

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• Stump speech (politics) → Stump speech
• Stump speech → Stump speech (disambiguation)

– This looks like a clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Receives 85% of the pageviews, by my count, and googling "stump speech" almost exclusively brings up the political term. The minstrel term has (unsurprisingly) fallen out of fashion, and its name originates as a parody of a political stump speech anyhow. Frankly, I'm not really convinced a DAB page is actually necessary here, since the other two topics seem rather tangential, but I've been wrong before. Nohomersryan (talk) 04:12, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

• A disambiguation page is not required. Move Stump speech (politics) to Stump speech over the current disambiguation page, and put a hatnote there to the other use. Delete G14 the current redirect Stump speech (disambiguation). Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 11:10, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
• Support Clear primary topic. Number 57 18:25, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

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Moby Dick joke

In Moby Dick—chapter 57–Melville mentions a beggar who tells a story of how he lost his leg and was left with a stump, and Melville refers to it as a stump-speech. 68.192.142.45 (talk) 20:09, 27 July 2025 (UTC)