Talk:Double dipping

This page was proposed for deletion by GetLinkPrimitiveParams (talk · contribs) on 29 May 2009 with the comment:
unreferenced dictionary entries
It was contested by MuZemike (talk · contribs) on 2009-06-03 with the comment:
Contend that this is a notable term outside the literal meaning (i.e. government and budgeting).

A fact from Double dipping appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 June 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Jack Sinagra sponsored a bill passed by the New Jersey Senate to ban the practice of double dipping, in which elected officials served in more than one elected position simultaneously?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/June.

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Shouldn't the food version be expanded and moved to the top, since the other uses are by analogy to that one? The current article makes it look like this use is unique to Seinfeld, and to a particular episode at that. --Random832^T 13:11, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This article[edit]

...is basically a completely useless disambiguation page (since none of these meanings has its own article), combining many dictionary definitions. As far as I can tell, there's no way it would pass an AFD discussion that pitted its content against Wikipedia policy, although I personally don't care enough to nominate it for deletion. Propaniac (talk) 04:12, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds reasonable. I vote go for it, but I also don't care enough to do the work. --- Stephen Goldmeier | Profile | Talk | (._.) | 00:06, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I concur. This page was a mere list of dictionary definitions. I have merged a few of the more obscure definitions to the Wiktionary page and made this into a soft-redirect. Rossami (talk) 22:43, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A little late, I know, but I disagree. The version just before the page was made into a redirect to Wiktionary included only a definition for a few of the double dippings, but also included a bit of history and effects of double dipping foods. I think that this should be made into an article again. It's not just a term, it's a topic. WODUP 07:01, 6 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

US-centric[edit]

This presents a US-centric view. The issue arises in other jurisdictions also, for example if I'm not mistaken, it was an issue in the Republic of Ireland at one stage (county council and national parliament at the same time?). It remains an issue in Northern Ireland with elected representatives holding both a local parliament position (MLA) and UK parliament position (MP). Ian Paisley also held the position of MEP (European Parliament) at the same time as those other two positions.

The term in Ireland/UK is "double-jobbing".

zoney ♣ talk 12:49, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In France this is usual practice.--Grahame (talk) 14:02, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merge[edit]

This article should be merged into dual mandate, which covers the same topic in the rest of the world. Warofdreams talk 15:07, 9 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]