Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jewban

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The result of the debate was keep.  Grue  17:45, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jewban

Obscure slang term best suited for Wiktionary; also some of the claims should be verified. Style a bit folksy at times. Bleak future as anything but a stub. paul klenk 03:30, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Although as written it's very stubby, I think there are directions to take this that are beyond mere dicdefs (I had no idea there were Cuban Jews. How did they get there? How many are there? What is their culture like?). If in a few months it's still just a stub I would reconsider my vote, but I can see this being usefully expanded. Nandesuka 11:43, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep again. This article just survived a VfD and has already seen improvement since the original stub. Pburka 13:52, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - As it stands, this is nothing more than a dicdef. I could support a Transwiki for it in it's current form. I would be willing to change my vote if someone substantially expanded this article as suggested by Nandesuka. However, until that happens I stand by a Delete since this has not been significantly expanded since the original AfD.--Isotope23 16:32, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
• keep. The article is way more than dicdef. Although I'd suggest to move the page to Jewish Cuban, according to the normal practice: African American, German Russian, etc. mikka (t) 18:34, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep on the grounds that previous VfD was only ten days ago, and its only two delete votes were prompted by the original poorly-chosen name and a grudge against the author. Ten days is not enough to see if an article will flourish, and ten days ago there was a consensus to keep the moved article. — mendel ☎ 19:24, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep but possibly move--"Jewban" is borderline offensive. -- Phil Welch 21:27, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

Offensiveness is not a reason to move (or delete); see, e.g., nigger. MCB 23:03, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

• Keep It might be a stub, but it's not a dicdef --Icarus 22:39, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep: as for the move issue, the question is whether the article is properly about the term, or the Jewish-Cuban community itself. I'd like to know if it should be "Jewban" or "Juban", though. MCB 23:03, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. neologism. Andrew pmk | Talk 23:43, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Jewish Cuban. --Revolución (talk) 05:12, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - we don't delete articles that can be usefully expanded, unless it would be trival to recreate them. This does not seem to fit that category. JesseW, the juggling janitor 06:54, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
• keep this is not really a dictionary definition Yuckfoo 07:15, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
• Move to Juban - every reference I've ever seen has been "Juban", and being a South Floridian, I've seen pretty much all there is to see. -- BD2412 ^talk 15:43, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable slang. We don't need separate articles for every imaginable combination of ethnic groups. / Peter ^Isotalo 01:48, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep It seems verifiable. These culture/ethnic related articles are what we need most in wikipedia to appreciate the diversity of human. It's amazing that, according to the article, the impact of the tragic Spanish Inquisition went as far as Cuba. --Vsion 12:15, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
• Rename to Jewish Cuban and reconfigure to a broad article on the Jewish Cuban community. This particular joke ethnic nickname used in South Florida should only be a very small part of that article.--Pharos 05:53, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

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