Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Caddy whompus

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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 of the debate was delete. Mailer Diablo 16:08, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Caddy whompus

We are not a slang dictionary. I've transwikied this to Wiktioanry, but chances ar it won't stay there long. Dangherous 21:31, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Keep I searched for it at Wiktionary, but for some reason wasn't there, if it's been deleted there, it deserves a spot somewhere in the wikipedia universe. FireSpike 17:09, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
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Mailer Diablo 05:23, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete as neologism. 42 unique Google hits, including this Wikipedia article and its mirrors. --Hyperbole 07:19, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete - more suitable for wiktionary. - Richardcavell 10:01, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, sort of. Deserves a spot at wiktionary, but the only large number of GHits for the word (over 100K) are for "cattywompus". All the other spellings I tried (including this one) only got a few hundred hits. Fan1967 14:45, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, WP:NOT for neologisms or simple slang definitions. Deizio 16:30, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per WP:WINAD, but perhaps Wiktionary would want a page on cattywompus if that's a sufficiently well-known term. -- Mithent 21:57, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment—I think the most common spelling might be "catawampus". OED gives also "catawampous" and "catawamptious". This is not a neologism: OED's earliest citation is from 1840, and Dickens used it in 1844. Ardric47 01:08, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
If google's an indication of current usage, the hits I get are: cattywompus 108K, catawampus 42K, cattywampus 20K. Less than 100 for "caddy whompus". Fan1967 03:58, 26 April 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.