Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/BTDTGTTS

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was redirect to List of Internet slang. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:53, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] BTDTGTTS

Delete. NN initialism - hoax PJM 18:53, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nom --Syrthiss 19:06, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: This is a very common term in the Usenet groups I frequent (see http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=BTDTGTTS&qt_s=Search). But it is a dicdef. Does that make it a goner or not? I can't decide. - Just zis Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] :: AfD? 19:09, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

• Going with redirect per below. - Just zis Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] :: AfD? 11:50, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. It's a slang dictionary definition and can't be expanded much. Feel free to merge if there's a list of Usenet slang. - Mgm|^(talk) 19:30, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, per MgM. You persuaded me again :-) - Just zis Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] :: AfD? 19:45, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment 600+ Google hits makes it significant enough to include in the list. No need for a detailed explanation of the meaning, and I think it's very, very unlikely that this can ever be more than a dictdef. In adding the definition to List of Internet slang I used the edit comment "/* B */ From information originally contributed by 65.208.22.25 on 13:45, 4 November 2005" satisfies GFDL adequately, so don't please don't give me any grief about "merge and delete" being invalid... So, I've already done a merge, and my vote is:
• Redirect to List of Internet slang, because redirects are cheap and someone might try to look it up, but Delete would also be fine. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:42, 4 November 2005 (UTC) P. S. Actually I just discovered that a search on Google GROUPS (USENET) gives 12000+ hits. GIven that generally a topic will get about 1/10 to 1/4 as many hits in Google Groups as it does in a Google Web search, this is strong evidence that this really is an online idiom. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:49, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect now that it's included in the list. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:43, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.