Talk:Standee

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Expanding definition

Hope there is no objection to my taking the liberty of expanding this with a 'History' section; the 'standee', or life-size point-of-sale figurine is a phenomenon in merchandising that precedes their use in movie advertising and inclusion of that history adds context to this article. Jamesmcardle^(talk) 04:27, 18 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Article title/alternative names

At present (current version at time of posting), the lead sentence reads:

A standee is an American term for a large self-standing display promoting a movie, product or event, or point-of-sale advertising, often in the form of a life-size cut-out figure.

From my reading of WP:REFERS and WP:ISATERMFOR, the framing of this sentence as an explanation of the meaning of the term standee is against the WP:NOTDICT policy, so I am going to reword the sentence.

However, looking into this made me wonder about the WP:COMMONNAME usage of the term standee as opposed to, for instance, cardboard cutout. A Google Books Ngram Viewer comparison between the terms standee, cardboard cut-out and cardboard cutout as nouns (here) shows that usage of cardboard cutout is significantly more common. Also, neither Merriam-Webster,^[1] the New Oxford American Dictionary,^[2] nor the Oxford Dictionary of English^[3] actually list this definition of the noun standee. Many of the 'Recent Examples on the Web' listed automatically by Merriam-Webster are examples of this usage, but this only shows that the use of standee to mean "cardboard cutout" may be more frequent than the use of standee to mean "standing passenger", not that standee is the most commonly used term for a cardboard cutout.

I'm posting this here rather than opening a move request, as I'm not sure which title the article could/should be moved to, and an RM might be unnecessary if consensus can be reached on the talk page.

References

^ "standee". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 5 May 2025. noun : a standing person : one who occupies standing room
^ Stevenson, Angus; Lindberg, Christine A., eds. (2015). "standee". New Oxford American Dictionary (3 ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199891535. Retrieved 5 May 2025. noun — a person who stands, especially in a passenger vehicle when all the seats are occupied or at a performance or sporting event.
^ Stevenson, Angus, ed. (2015). "standee". Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191727665. Retrieved 5 May 2025. noun — a person who is standing rather than seated, especially in a passenger vehicle.

Pineapple Storage (talk) 16:53, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "standee". Merriam-Webster. Retrieved 5 May 2025. noun : a standing person : one who occupies standing room

[2] Stevenson, Angus; Lindberg, Christine A., eds. (2015). "standee". New Oxford American Dictionary (3 ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199891535. Retrieved 5 May 2025. noun — a person who stands, especially in a passenger vehicle when all the seats are occupied or at a performance or sporting event.

[3] Stevenson, Angus, ed. (2015). "standee". Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191727665. Retrieved 5 May 2025. noun — a person who is standing rather than seated, especially in a passenger vehicle.

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