Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shasted

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was DELETE. — JIP | Talk 16:10, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Shasted

Semi-nonsensical slang dicdef The Land 14:55, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nomination. The Land 14:55, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

• I disagree. Please Elaborate. 144.160.98.31 15:02, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
  • OK. Firstly Wikipedia is not a dictionary, and the article is a dictionary definition. Furthermore, IMV it's not a place for articles on every form of drunkenness in existence - if we include this one we also need Trashed, Trolleyed, Wasted, Hammered, Mandibled, Cucumbered and any other term made up by a drunken student to describe their state. In any case, to have articles we need to have verifiable statements about what these words are - are there any press cuttings that talk about 'being shasted'? Essentially it's a load of immature nonsense of no encyclopedic interest and we should delete it. The Land 15:17, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Actually, wikipedia serves as much of a "dictionary purpose" as a dictionary. See:

• Ain't
• Homie
• Subcrawl
• Beer_goggles

All of these words are either slang or don't exist and aren't used in popular culture (e.g. "Subcrawl"). Also, the majority of these entries are definitions with a questionable "history" attached.

• • • All of those articles are a good bit more encyclopedic than Shasted. If you can trace its origin back to 1696 or get a line of toys named after it then it may well be encyclopedic. As it stands, it ain't. The Land 15:55, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

I am not a student, actually far from it. I first heard this term come from a parent of a drunk driver during a speech. I don't have the text from the speech but if I did, I would readily supply it. I'm glad you're confident in your abilities to judge maturity, but maybe you should actually read some of the content in the wikipedia. 144.160.98.31 15:50, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

• delete slangdef. And I think we should probably get rid of beer goggles too. --Trovatore 16:07, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom CLW 16:15, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete slang dicdef... and can't verify this word isn't a neologism. --Isotope23 16:53, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Non-notable slang. Only wasted and trashed are notable in my opinion. Andrew pmk | Talk 01:08, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Even notable words aren't supposed to get dictionary-definition articles. BTW neither wasted nor trashed is about terms for drunkenness. --Trovatore 07:25, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. This is a dicdef of a neologism (apparently no relevant Google hits -- it's apparently a surname, though). Since nobody is using "shasted" in writing to mean drunk, it doesn't even belong on the List of slang terms for drunkenness. We don't need encyclopedia articles about different slang terms that all mean drunk; the encyclopedic article about the condition of being drunk is Drunkenness which deals with the issue of being trashed, wasted, hammered, and any other thing you can call it. --Metropolitan90 04:07, 12 October 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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.