Dennis Bratland ( talk) 17:42, 24 September 2020 (UTC) And I just checked the OED. This a pet issue for me so I wrote Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not here to settle bar bets to pontificate about it. It's totally fine here on the talk page if we collect clues and see where they lead us, but before any article can say 'X was the first' we need a source which actually says 'X was the first'. We can't piece together our own chain of evidence to deduce that something or other was a first or a record. TooManyFingers ( talk) 11:32, 24 September 2020 (UTC) This is a very frequent Wikipedia issue, and the WP:No original research policy draws a bright line we can't cross. There might be proof that someone else actually said or printed the two words together before Roth did. Merriam-Webster online dictionary gives 1964 as the first year for which they've seen proof of the phrase 'rat fink' being in print, and this article says the character was created in 1963, so it doesn't look impossible for Roth to be the first person to combine those two words. I edited 'Rat****ing' to 'Ratfucking' and I felt it better served the article to simply link to the article to show it is being used properly. Thank you.īetacommandBot ( talk) 22:25, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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