Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Windian
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- 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 was delete. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 21:53, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Windian
Neologism, and a vaguely insulting one at that. Page was nominated for speedy deletion, but apparently neologisms don't qualify, so I brought it here. — riana_dzasta wreak havoc|damage report 09:06, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Comment Urban Dictionary lists it with more or less the same usage given in the article. Transwiki to Wiktionary? BTLizard 10:56, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Fair call. — riana_dzasta wreak havoc|damage report 11:22, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Actually, it's a bad call. Urban Dictionary contains and encourages protologisms. Wiktionary doesn't want protologisms. The only attested meaning for this word that I can find has nothing at all to do with the contents of this article. Uncle G 12:55, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- You're right, I'm not sure why I said that. Musta been tired. I stand by my nomination.— riana_dzasta wreak havoc|damage report 13:54, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Actually, it's a bad call. Urban Dictionary contains and encourages protologisms. Wiktionary doesn't want protologisms. The only attested meaning for this word that I can find has nothing at all to do with the contents of this article. Uncle G 12:55, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Fair call. — riana_dzasta wreak havoc|damage report 11:22, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Delete, you know it's bad when the first Ghit is Urban Dictionary. Wiktionary is not Urban Dictionary either. Punkmorten 12:27, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Keep, why delete this when we have long articles over words like wigger? Brantley Reese 17:04, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Maybe wigger should be nominated for deletion also. --- Skapur 17:35, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Because this article is unverifiable and original research. It cites no sources, and there are no sources discussing the purported concept of a windian. Uncle G 17:48, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Comment Don't understand this word, simlar to wigger, they sound ill-fashioned to me. It requires Afd? Clearly slang,User:Yy-bo 17:21, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Delete. Actually the word WIndian has been around for a long time and means West Indian (i.e. Caribbean). The Windies cricket team is big in the Caribbean. --- Skapur 17:36, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- The article is unverifiable and original research, as explained above. Delete. Uncle G 17:48, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Keep. This word has more than one meaning (as Skapur said above) and apparently the author decided to change it to reflect that. Scottmso 20:32, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Skapur didn't say that. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. And the purported concept of windians is still unverifiable and original research. Uncle G 21:24, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Ummm, so you're trying to say that Windians don't exist? Well, I live in Oklahoma which was full of Indians at one time. Because of this there are many Windians around here. I know many Windians who were marked by schools as Indian because they were 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 Indian or whatever. Brantley Reese 01:12, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
- I'm trying to say what I actually wrote, which is that this purported concept is unverifiable and original research. The way to counter that is to cite sources, not to present personal testimony. We explicitly don't work on the basis of accepting personal testimony from Wikipedia editors, here. It's one of our fundamental policies. Uncle G 02:02, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
- Ummm, so you're trying to say that Windians don't exist? Well, I live in Oklahoma which was full of Indians at one time. Because of this there are many Windians around here. I know many Windians who were marked by schools as Indian because they were 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 Indian or whatever. Brantley Reese 01:12, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
- Skapur didn't say that. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. And the purported concept of windians is still unverifiable and original research. Uncle G 21:24, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Delete, doesn't matter about its meaning, that's dictionary material.-Kmaguir1 20:41, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Delete per nom, this is for the dictionary (if anything). Daveydweeb (chat/patch) 10:09, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
- Comment Don't know if it is even a portmanteau. Ever heard of Bindian, Rindian, Yindian? Can't really be. User:Yy-bo 19:42, 9 September 2006 (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.
