Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gay slang

Gay slang

Gay slang was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was to keep the page.

Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary. --kooo 18:44, 2004 Oct 30 (UTC)

• Keep -- William M. Connolley 19:27, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC).
• Keep. This is an article which stands by itself - it's all of a piece, whose meaning would be lost if the definitions were scattered among the words in a general dictionary. This is the essential difference between an encyclopedia and a dictionary. AntsWiki 23:30, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. It's not a dictionary entry. However, the last one on the list strikes me as a tad suspicious. --jpgordon{gab} 19:47, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. Beyond the fact that this is a compilation, which, as far as I know, couldn't be achieved through a dictionary article, it also has encyclopedia worthy information at the top of the page. If it were a page that just said "catcher" and then explained what that was, I could understand it being deleted, but it is an encyclopedia article on a slang within a specific minority group.
• Keep - This is a valid and informative article, however as should be seen by User:AntWiki's additions, it has to be carefully regulated. -Erolos 23:37, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Keep: precedent exists already with other slang compilations -- not that I like any of them, but they're here, not queer, and I'm used to them. Geogre 01:18, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Keep - The article helps to at least help understand some of the terminology of the gay subculture if nothing else. Having the terminology all compiled in one place would be much more helpful than having it spread out in dictionary fashion. JesseG 03:52, Oct 31, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. But it really, really, really needs references on time and place of use - these things vary tremendously by decade and country - David Gerard 12:22, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. Interesting article. Needs references and other things. A very good example of a reasonable article precisely because it is a good, coherent collection of small pieces of information, none of which would be a reasonable article in itself. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 14:29, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. Article is interesting, but needs citations and references to varieties of local slang and the mostly ephemeral nature of such expressions. Fire Star 15:49, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Keep Exploding Boy 16:44, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)

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