Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Budgie Smuggler

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 (which has already been done). - ulayiti (talk) 10:55, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Budgie Smuggler

Slang definition, possibly neologism, contributed by Logarithmicpotato (talk • contribs). (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Algebraic potato).

• Delete. Gazpacho 08:27, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Speedo. Fairly common slang term for that type of swimming costume in Australia although normally spelt as Budgy Smuggler. Capitalistroadster 10:01, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. . Capitalistroadster 10:04, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Speedo, though I've never seen it spelled "Budgy smuggler"? --fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 11:31, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
• Merge/redirect to Speedo (suit style) (spelled budgie, not budgy). --Scott Davis ^Talk 11:58, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
• Merge/redirect
  • Totally irrelevant comment I suspect there's actually something interesting linguistically going on here and the correct word budgie is being assimilated to bulgy, resulting in budgy. Dlyons493 Talk 13:49, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

That would be interesting, but no. "budgie" is Australian slang for budgerigar, and the name "budgie smuggler" is a humourous reference to the appearance that someone is trying to conceal a small bird in their underpants. Slac speak up! 04:09, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

• Merge/redirect as per the Australians above. JPD (talk) 14:48, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
• Transwiki? Does Wiktionary take slang definitions? BTW I believe it is "Budgie Smuggler", which has roughly twice as many Ghits as "Budgy Smuggler" (and most of those are from a brand that has taken that name, I believe). And does Banana hammock really deserve a page, then? pfctdayelise 02:02, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete/Redirect Why are we even discussing this? We should just 'merge' and create a redirect, the only links to the page are discussion links. In fact, I just did it. :-) Ben Aveling 06:02, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
  • The reason for discussing it is to discover the community concensus. In this case concensus appears to be merge/redirect rather than the original proposal to delete. What made you decide to merge to Speedo (the company/brandname) rather than Speedo (suit style) the generic description for the style? --Scott Davis ^Talk 11:04, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

What struck me was the fact that every person here seems to have put more time and thought into thier contribution to this page (a) than went into the budgie smuggler page in the first place and (b) than it would have taken to just fix what is obviously a joke and a poorly excuted one. For a page with a lot of effort, even misguided effort (such as some of Joe Dolcie's pages) it's worth spending time to do the right thing, but not for a one line 10 second joke like this page. IMHO, It shouldn't have been raised for discussion, it should just have been fixed. Courage and all that. Nothing is irreversible.

I decided to merge to Speedo (brand) rather than Speedo (suit style) because Speedo (brand) is more focused on that style, while speedo suit style covers pretty much the full range of mens' bathers, short of neck-to-knee. Also, speedo (brand) has a photo, which does clarify the expression, if I may put it thus.

Regards, Ben Aveling 11:27, 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.