Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Jailbait

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The result of the debate was no consensus. Keep was leading anyway. Woohookitty 08:54, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jailbait

Nominated for deletion in accordance with WP:NOT section 1.2.3: Wikipedia is not a slang, idiom, or usage guide. This article is a slang definition.

• Delete as above, but a better executed article would have a higher chance of survival. -Breathstealer 05:38, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• Weak Delete Section 1.2.3. goes on to say: "In some special cases an article about an essential piece of slang may be appropriate." I agree that a better executed Jailbait would be worth having. Mareklug ^talk 05:58, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
• This nom was never added to a main VfD page and was also malformed. Fixing now. Keep, more than a dicdef. JYolkowski // talk 01:52, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep The new article needs some cleanup, but its an article worth having. I don't understand the above votes. If you would have voted keep for a better article, why not leave the bad one as a stub? --best, kevin ···Kzollman | Talk··· 02:32, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep. It could belong to Wikitionary as well but i'm hoping that it could be further improved. --Plastictv 02:42, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• keep and cleanup. Already beyond a dicdef, and potential for expansion. —brighterorange ^(talk) 02:51, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
  • comment I rewrote the first section and cleaned up the rest; take another look. More help appreciated. —brighterorange ^(talk) 03:13, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep on expanding Wikipedia. —RaD Man (talk) 03:47, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• I support keep :: this may have begun as slang, but it has now passed into a broader usage, which has run for at least ten if not twenty years. To the extent that other phrases have superceded it, the entry deserves to be encyclopaediased for future reference. --Simon Cursitor 08:02, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - Whater does or could go beyond a slang dicdef is covered, or could be covered, in existing non-slang articles. --rob 08:12, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. This is fine, actually Pilatus 08:54, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, fairly good article on an extremely notable term. the wub "?/!" 10:34, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

• Delete: I hate to be the dissenter, but the extra part is the extension of the slang term to a highly, highly, highly specialized group of speakers -- anime fans who happen to use this term because they are interested in the pictures. That's what's "extra" here. The first paragraph is unlikely, if not inaccurate. "Jailbait" is used for women above the age of consent? It is? I must not be keeping up, then. The term is offensive for being sexually suggestive, suggesting both that the object is promiscuous and that the subject is only interested in sex, but I don't think the bad part of it is due to the reversal of blame. (People who take jailbait are not "rapists" and "pedophiles": that's the whole point of the term!) Anyway, I don't see the great value here or the way that it escapes being dictdef. Geogre 11:05, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, expand information on traditional use. -- BD2412 ^talk 11:42, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. There's more here than just a dicdef. 23skidoo 13:08, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep, I think this might be salvagable, but I can't figure out how myself. Mcfly 16:51, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep for reasons already said. SchmuckyTheCat 22:32, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep for same reasons. Vizjim 22:55, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete looks more worthy of wiktionary. --MacRusgail 14:03, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete wikipedia isn't urban dictionary --Mecanismo 18:22, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete good riddance to bad rubbish. Ashibaka (tock) 02:31, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Weak Keep there's a cultural significance to the idea of jailbait w/r/t age of consent laws, popular music as well as a tiny linux distro and 359,000 Google hits. Worth expanding and rewriting more accurately. Jessamyn 01:41, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Expand and rewrite, sure, but this goes beyond a simple dictionary definition IMO. Elrith 01:44, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete I actually found the article very interesting, but it conflicts with WP:NOT section 1.2.3 If we want to include this, then we need to re-write WP:NOT.--Outlander 20:44, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

• Comment - if the article had more history and references, that is if it was about how the term came into use as in 23 skidoo, I could be pursuaded to change my vote --Outlander 20:49, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. We are not a slang dictionary and this is nowhere near notable or encyclopedic enough. / Peter ^Isotalo 21:16, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep seems ok --redstucco 08:32, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete This article is a garbage magnet and any useful information can be put in articles about statutory rape and/or sexual mores/customs. Paul 00:45, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

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