Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/More boxen

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The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 17:46, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] More boxen

Delete. This page seems to address a catchphrase-like usage which I've never run across in the past. Careful Google checking shows this use only being popular on the dslreports.com website. A page on the use of "box" as slang for a computer, including the pluralization "boxen", could provide something more than a dictionary definition, and document its historical use in computing in general. Having a page for such a recent, underused, and non-descriptive term seems pointless, I don't think this article belongs on Wikipedia, and there's no good reason to start a new page from the existing "more boxen" article. Flata 03:32, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. (For what it's worth, my impression is that "boxen" (by itself) is obsolete hacker terminology. In the days when the VAX was the measure of all things, there was a cultural device between VMS programmers, who pluralized "VAX" as "VAXes," and UNIX programmers, who pluralized it as "VAXen," hence by extension as non-VAX boxes began to proliferate they were called "boxen...") Boxen, currently a dab, could potentially be a borderline but legitimate article topic. The phrase "More boxen" is not. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:43, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. My parents were killed by oxen when I was very young(although the doctors insist they had dysentery); this article just exacerbates the problem. Also, the plural of box is boxes. Whoever wrote this article isn't very good at English grammar. --The Amazing Superking 00:20, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I agree with dpbsmith. A mention in the "Boxen" page as this being a phrase used irregurly is sufficient. There is not enough (nor I doubt will there ever be enough) content to warrant an entire article on "More boxen" specifically. As a second argument, should we also create pages for "Less boxen" and "Adequate boxen"? Taking an alternative route, I've got a friend who's always making up new phrases because he thinks it's funny. Let's create Wikipedia articles on them ALL! /failedattemptathumour 203.173.24.43 03:42, 26 December 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.