Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Encourager

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The result of the debate was delete.

Anon vote discounted. My own vote is delete as neologism. Rossami (talk) 05:09, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Encourager

An Encourager is the counterpart to a gainer and somewhat similar to a feeder. It is a term usually only used in the gay male community of the fat admiration subculture, or so we read. Well it certainly is a rum old world. Sorry, I mean delete as a gaymalefatadmirationcruft dicdef. -- Hoary 10:14, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)

• Keep, has potential for expansion. And why is "gaymalefatadmiration" a reason for deletion Kappa 11:02, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • It isn't. Cruftiness is. But hats off to your rather apt "potential for expansion". (Burp!) -- Hoary 11:17, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)
• Delete. I am myself a member of the "gay male community of the fat admiration subculture" (known more succinctly as the "chubby and chaser community") and I've never heard this term. --Angr 12:32, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Neologism. --InShaneee 16:32, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete A neologism of a subculture of a subculture of a subculture which may as quickly disappear. Paradiso 10:45, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep It would be a mistake to delete this page. Even though not everyone in that community may have heard the term it is certainly used and I have seen it mentioned on various sites for a number of years now. The number of links with references to "encourages" in the article proves that the term is quite widely used and has existed for some time now. The gay male community of the fat admiration subculture or chubby and chaser community has many, many sites, which shows that it is very large and like the term Encourager will probably exist as long as the internet does. This term is also mentioned in the Gainer article, which was written by someone else, and has an observation in the discussion page about its use by gays in the fat admiration community. If the description of the community is disliked it can be changed without deleting the article, though I do feel that is the most accurate way to describe it. To delete this article would be denying the proven fact that Encourager is a used term. -- dannyzau ...Actually not by User:dannyzau (a WP impossibility) or User:Dannyzau (who doesn't exist, or anyway has contributed nothing) but instead created in a series of edits by User:210.49.177.42 (contributions), the same IP number that was used to create the article.
  • Comment: 210.49.177.42, I think you'll agree that discouragement (let's say) is a widely used term in English, and indeed that it's vastly wider known than is encourager in your special sense. But it doesn't have an article, because it's merely a word, and WP is not a dictionary. (Meanwhile, Wiktionary is.) I've no idea why this subculture needs more than one article, rather than Fat admirer, Feeder (fetish), Feedee, Encourager, and perhaps more. -- Hoary 10:59, 2005 Mar 31 (UTC)
    • How about merging the lot of them? Radiant_* 15:25, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
      • Good idea. Chubby culture still has lots of room for expansion. --Angr 17:19, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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