Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walk of shame

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 No consensus. Rx StrangeLove 05:10, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Walk of shame

Nonsense neologism, and almost certainly done to take the piss out of a colleague who's just arrived in the office after "successful" night out. - Just zis Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] :: AfD? 11:57, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

• Redirect to The Weakest Link. Common term in that game show when the players are voted off. Sjakkalle (Check!) 12:12, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Has lots of meanings, none of which are encyclopaedic. Deb 12:58, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete for now (unless re-written) a redirect would be inappropriate since the expression has other origins and contexts.--Doc ^ask? 13:44, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete and then Redirect to The Weakest Link. Hard to imagine folks looking it up, but still redirects are cheap. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:20, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• This concept is one that appears to have been accepted (and decried) by a lot of people for some years now. There is no original research here. I was at keep when I reached the book. Uncle G 16:37, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, this is an actual term in common use. Possibly disambig different meanings. Trollderella 17:01, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, slang expression, unlikely search term. If kept, please, please do not redirect to game show, as that is likely to baffle editors and readers. Jkelly 17:35, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
  • This isn't an article about an expression. It's an article about a concept. A (dictionary) article about an expression would provide quotations, translations, pronunciation, etymology, and so forth of the phrase. This article, about a concept, does not. It instead tells one what a walk of shame is. There appear to be a lot of people who agree on what a walk of shame is, and they have written a fair amount about walks of shame, from how to avoid appearing as if one is performing the walk to criticisms that the concept is mis-named. We have multiple, independent, sources writing and publishing their own articles about the subject. If this were a person, that would be a "keep" per the WP:BIO criteria. If this were a company, that would be a "keep" per the WP:CORP criteria. Uncle G 18:24, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Weak Delete Actual expression but still only slang. Swegner 18:03, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as per Uncle G. Verifiable information exists about this and is cited in the article. Capitalistroadster 18:42, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, per Uncle G. And yes I know I nominated it. He evidently has better Google discernment faculties than I do. - Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] :: AfD? 19:07, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Uncle G and send nominator on one (kidding). Kappa 20:06, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• keep in honor of everyone that has walked across a college campus with messed-up hair, oily skin, and inside-out sweatpants at 930 in the morning. :) Seriously, though, it is a real thing that should have an article, as part of the combined sum of human experience, IMO. Youngamerican 21:23, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, verifable... but still just a slang dicdef.--Isotope23 21:35, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, this expression has Google Groups citations dating back to 1992. --Metropolitan90 02:48, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Uncle G. Xoloz 03:24, 13 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.