Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fag (cigarette)
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This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. 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 delete (blk-cmp error). – ABCD 20:44, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Fag (cigarette)[edit]
This is pure dicdef with no potential to become more than that; no potential encyclopedicity. Now, I know your first instinct, then, is to just say move to wiktionary, but it has just been transwikied, and so that is why it needs to be deleted.--Dmcdevit 05:06, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Delete dicdef —Wahoofive | Talk 05:56, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Delete Kevin Rector 06:15, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
- Merge with cigarette, no need to redirect. — JIP | Talk 06:50, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Delete, nothing here to really merge. Megan1967 11:22, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Delete, dicdef already transwikied, no potential encyclopedic content. Barno 15:23, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Delete, dicfef, nothing useful to merge. Dave the Red (talk) 19:11, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
- Err, why not redirect?. DON'T BREAK LINKS WITH GOOD REASON! Pcb21| Pete 22:28, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Well, my reasoning was that no one is going to type in "Fag (cigarette)". No one ever types in those little disambig paretheticals. If anything, they'll search for fag and get a disambig page directing them where to go. Most likely, if they want cigarette, they'll just type that anyway, not the slang. --Dmcdevit 22:42, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- According to "what links here", 7 pages link here, not including those related to VfD. It wouldn't be too hard to go through each one and change the link to being ciggarette, but than again it also wouldn't be to hard to make this a redirect.-LtNOWIS 23:54, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Actually, there's only 6, as I wouldn't count the transwiki log. Four of these are disambiguative in nature: fag, faggot (slang), fag (disambig), fag (pejorative). That only two obscure pages link here as compared to the hundreds to cigarette, I think, supports the idea that a redirect is unnecessary. --Dmcdevit 00:36, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- According to "what links here", 7 pages link here, not including those related to VfD. It wouldn't be too hard to go through each one and change the link to being ciggarette, but than again it also wouldn't be to hard to make this a redirect.-LtNOWIS 23:54, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Well, my reasoning was that no one is going to type in "Fag (cigarette)". No one ever types in those little disambig paretheticals. If anything, they'll search for fag and get a disambig page directing them where to go. Most likely, if they want cigarette, they'll just type that anyway, not the slang. --Dmcdevit 22:42, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Merge and redirect. -Sean Curtin 22:21, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)
- This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.