Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Agg

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 delete. — Mar. 15, '06 [17:13] <freakofnur_xture|talk>

[edit] Agg

• Delete: Paintball slang. It's not even a dictionary entry - just an abbreviation for "aggressive". —Wknight94 (talk) 02:42, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, neologismcruft. Royboycrashfan 02:55, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Neologism --lightdarkness ^(talk) 02:58, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Unverifiable protologism. -- Krash (Talk) 03:00, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• No its not.. its slang and is not a abbreiviation for agg. Clearly if you call someone agg to mean "cool" aggressive would not fit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Egofoo (talk • contribs) 03:17, 9 March 2006
• Delete. It maybe warrants one paragraph in the paintball article where they talk about the lingo—if it's in general use—but not a full article. —C.Fred (talk) 03:46, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep and expand. As a (former) paintballer, I can tell you that it's become way more than just a word, and more like a cult following/obsession with the team Hostile Kids. And it's not an abbreviation for aggressive, dunno where you got that from. I'd be ok with a merge to HK, but, alas, we don't have an article on it. --Rory096 05:49, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment: Yeah, you lost me with this argument. It's described as a word in this article but you're saying it's a cult following about a paintball team that doesn't have an article? That's like having an article for a slang term for Yankees fans without having an article for Yankees fans itself or even an article for the Yankees! Huh? —Wknight94 (talk) 16:26, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment, yeah it's kind of confusing. Which is why we need an article about it. This is one of the main things new players can't figure out, so it's more than understandable that they would come to Wikipedia to find out what it is. --Rory096 16:31, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as nn neologism. dbtfz^talk 06:30, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Merge with Paintball Lingo per Cfred. -- Samir ∙ T C 08:43, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Krash and WP:WINAD Шизомби 09:39, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• V.Weak Merge to Paintball Lingo if evidence of the term's use can be cited, and the usage expands beyond the followers of this (team? club?). If a reliable source demonstrating widespread use in the paintballing community can not be provided by the closure of this discussion, the closing admin should consider this a delete (WP:NOT a dictionary). -- Saberwyn 10:59, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. This is a link to a search on PBNation for Agg. 232 results, many of which don't have to do with HK. --Rory096 16:34, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as neologism. --Terence Ong 12:51, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• delete WP:NOT urbandictionary Richard cocks 13:30, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, non-notable and non-verifiable neologism. JIP | Talk 15:10, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete neologism Localzuk ^(talk) 16:44, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. Neologism isn't a criteria for deletion. --Rory096 17:04, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment WP:NOR "it introduces or uses neologisms, without attributing the neologism to a reputable source". And Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms Шизомби 20:41, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, neologism. incog 21:23, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Retarded-only interesting to PBers (which I am). Wikipedia is not a slang dictionary. Go write a real article. MiracleMat 22:02, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. Isn't, say, RuneScape gods only interesting to people who play RuneScape? List of songs featured in The Simpsons only interesting to Simpsons fans? (And don't bother AfDing either, I believe they've both been up recently and were kept.) Just because the entire world won't read an article doesn't mean we should delete it. --Rory096 00:42, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
• Comment. Google search for "agg paintball" yields 22,400 results. --Rory096 00:45, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment: Mostly little myspace pages and blogs and, after a few hundred, they only appear as individual words on giant keyword search lists - far from reliable sources. This already exists here and that's a good place for it (that link agrees with my original argument that it's simply an abbreviation of aggressive). At best, this is to be deleted and moved to wiktionary but I doubt it belongs there either. —Wknight94 (talk) 03:54, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment. The little myspace pages using it is the point- it means it's in widespread use. Also, I'm sure plenty of other people use it, but didn't also say "paintball" on that page, so it didn't show up in the Google search. As for it being on WikiPB (whatever that is, some little non-notable wiki shouldn't really count as having the information, especially when it isn't even a Wikimedia or even Wikicities wiki), that doesn't mean it's on Wikipedia- which is supposed to be the Internet's most expansive encyclopedia. The site is correct that it is a bit like the word "aggro," a term surfers have been using for about 20 years, but it's not exactly the same. --Rory096 04:51, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
• Merge with Paintball lingo. It's NN by itself. ProhibitOnions 22:35, 14 March 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.