Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deeez Nuuuts

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The result of the debate was delete. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:12, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Deeez Nuuuts

Hoo boy, this is bizarre. One, the title is extremely narrow and would almost never be found on a search. Two, it appears to be a slang dictdef. Three, a Google search shows mostly lyric results, and we are not a lyrics database for copyright and encyclopaedic reasons. Recommend deletion. Mr Bound 20:47, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

• With the article content as it stands I agree delete, it seems to mainly be a track found on the album The Chronic. I didn't think it qualified for a speedy though. Stoive 21:03, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
  • My apologies, I actually just mentioned this on the article talk page. Mr Bound 21:05, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
• I think this should remain in wiki in some form, without the last paragraph, perhaps. I think adding it as a slang dicdef. would be the most appropriate.keep
  • Wikipedia is not a dictionary. However, I think that perhaps Wiktionary would be appropriate- can someone clarify? I don't know Wiktionary policy as well. Mr Bound 21:31, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
    • Note that, despite the title, the article actually discusses "deez nuuutz", even though the song title appears to be "Deeez Nuuuts". Without doing the research, I'm fairly sure that deez can be attested as a word that (whatever one may think of it) people use, and less sure, albeit still reasonably so, of nutz. However, "deeez" is arguable, and both "nuuuts" and "nuuutz" very probably cannot be attested. As such:
      • "deez nuts" would just be a non-idiomatic combination of deez and nuts (the slang meaning for which was, predictably, the very first addition to that article, by the way).
      • "deez nutz" would similarly just be a non-idiomatic combination of deez and nutz.
      • As "deez nuuutz", what this article says it is discussing, pretty much doesn't occur at all, there's no question about its exclusion from Wiktionary.
      • "Deez Nuuuts", the title of this article (albeit not what is discussed in the body), appears to occur only as the title of an album track, as a reference to that title, or as a reference to the lyrics. As such, I believe that it falls foul of the Wiktionary requirement for occurrences in independent contexts. (Moreover: The assertion that it has an actual slang meaning is therefore, quite simply, false.)
      • "Deeez Nuuutz" occurs so infrequently that it probably wouldn't make it on that ground alone. It occurs as a mis-spelling of "Deeez Nuuuts", but that causes it to fall foul of the independence requirement, too.
    • Summary: You are welcome to come and add deez and nutz to Wiktionary. Please, if possible, provide proper quotations, as per Wiktionary:quotations, to stave off any disputes. The non-idiomatic combinations, or the album track title components that occur in no other independent contexts, would probably get nominated for deletion, though.
    • As for this article in Wikipedia: The assertion that "Deez Nuuuts" is a slang phrase is simply false. It's the name of a track on an album, nothing more. Unless the track was released as a hit single, Merge to the album seems the best idea. (See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music/Notability and Music Guidelines#Songs.) Uncle G 03:35, 2005 May 27 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. --Carnildo 23:38, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, non notable track, slang dictionary definition to boot. Megan1967 05:38, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Karol 05:42, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete non notable. JamesBurns 12:00, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

• Im agree that merge would be appropriate, and don't see how that could be questioned, shouldn't the song titles be redirects to the article which contains the list of tracks and information about the album where the song is found. This seems to be the appropriate action for many, many article deletions, if they aren't offensive having redirects from deleted pages helps people to find the most relevant article to the topic they are searching for.
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