Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chigger (slang)

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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. Kusma (討論) 03:00, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chigger (slang)

Since I transwikied this dicdef, it's been prodded, deprodded, retagged for transwikification, replaced with a soft redirect to Wiktionary (which didn't work because the transwiki process was not completed on Wiktionary's end), replaced with text, re-replaced with a soft redirect -- to which text was added, then removed, added again, then removed again, added yet again, then removed yet again. TheProject 01:01, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Indeed, this is chigger (slang) not chigger, which rightfully goes to a disambiguation page which refers to the harvest mite. joturner 03:35, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per Kjkolb before someone deletes the AFD tag.  ;) Redirect to Harvest mite per Captain Disdain Cheers --Starionwolf 01:36, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete as neologism. Ted 01:47, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirect per Captain Disdain and Starionwolf. Delete for reasons given above. DVD+ R/W 01:48, 12 June 2006 (UTC) Delete, good point Kjkolb. DVD+ R/W 03:24, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Harvest mite, as they're also known as "chiggers", as mentioned in the article. -- Captain Disdain 01:48, 12 June 2006 (UTC) Oh yeah... There was that "(slang)" in there. Delete, of course. Sorry, my bad. -- Captain Disdain 08:06, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I forgot about them harvest mites. --Starionwolf 01:53, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
  • I've never seen so many strikethroughs on a single AfD... this AfD is being thrown about more than the original article was! TheProject 15:53, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per WP:NEO. Don't redirect, as Chigger is the North American layman's term for Harvest mite, not a slang term.--☆TBC☆ (aka Tree Biting Conspiracy) 02:18, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong delete as a neologism. A redirect is inappropriate because no one is going to type or link to "chigger (slang)" when looking for mites. The chigger article already has information about the mites. Also, according to the chigger article, it refers to more than one type of arthropod, so a redirect would be inaccurate unless disambiguation was added to the top of the other article - "chigger (slang)" redirects here, for other uses, see chigoe flea. -- Kjkolb 03:10, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong delete, neologism, inflammatory. --Coredesat 04:30, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak delete I have heard the term and I doubt it is a mere neologism, but it probably isn't notable enough to be more than a dicdef here. Jammo (SM247) 05:17, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak delete as adequately covered at list of racial slurs and as a highly unlikely search term for a redirect. This, however, is not a neologism, as it has been around for at least ten years. Furthermore, an "inflammatory" article title is never a reason to delete an article, as long as the article itself is respectful and npov. youngamerican (talk) 13:18, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirect The entomological sense of "chigger" should be kept under its own page or a general page like (Insects- pests of the Midwest USA, or something). As for "chigger" in the slang sense, it should go under the general slang page. Blintz 23:31, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per TBC and others. Chigger already covers the more common 'slang' definition. Eluchil404 19:49, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep - I started to improve the article - it was kinda a mess. It's still a stub, but I think it has potential. It's a very notable issue with Asian Americans and Black people in a lot of urban areas. ENpeeOHvee 07:04, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete Not really notable enough term to warrant its own article.--Auger Martel 11:52, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per Auger Martel and merge content as appropriate to disambig and/or lists.--Chaser T 20:58, 17 June 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.