Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dinking

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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 was redirect to Dink. Sr13 06:20, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

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Contested prod. I'm not Australian and haven't heard of this term, and it looks like a made-up word to me – but there may be a dinking league of which I'm unaware. KrakatoaKatie 21:05, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

  • Comment I'm not Australian, either, but I did find evidence that they use this term [1]. Is it a candidate for transwiki?--Ispy1981 21:17, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Even if it's a word, Wikipedia is not a dictionary. the_undertow talk 22:47, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Delete WP:NEO, WP:NOT, WP:NOR Rackabello 23:02, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as nom Harlowraman 00:25, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions. -- Bduke 00:50, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment. Dinking is certainly a widely used word in Australia and is a notable activity that could well have a wikipedia article on it, but this is not it. I reserve judgment and wait to see what my fellow Australians can add to the article. --Bduke 00:54, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete in it's current form as a dicidef. I suggest though that there is probably an article in the dangers of using a bicycle by more than one person at a time standing on stunt pegs...Garrie 01:49, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
BTW - aren't all words made up?Garrie 01:50, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete I am Australian and I am have heard the expression. But it could only exist as an article as an dictionary definition, and we know what Wikipedia isn't.Teiresias84 02:43, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete. Wiktionary has this covered under dink [2] and I have not been able to find sources to base an encyclopedic article on this (admittedly it was a perfunctory search). Capitalistroadster 02:46, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per Teiresias84 and Rackabello. It deserves a Wiktionary entry but is definitely not something one would expect to find in an encyclopaedia. Orderinchaos 11:26, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Redirect to the disambiguation page dink and add the wiktionary link there. It's a worldwide activity, and a multitude of terms are used around the world (e.g doubling), even in Australia. There's also multiple meanings for the words "dink" and "dinking"(e.g. "dinking around"). Aside from the article title issue, I doubt that the activity is notable enough for its own article.Melburnian 11:50, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Redirect as per Melburnian. Certainly "dinking" was the word I generally used for this activity when I was younger, so is not "made up" in that sense, but the article as it stands is not suitable to be kept at this stage. -- Mattinbgn/ talk 12:41, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Transwiki & merge dictdef; activity not sufficiently encyclopedic for a separat article, but could be merged into Cycling as a stunt type (a section yet to be added to that article). Askari Mark (Talk) 17:30, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Redirect - I deleted an earlier incarnation of this page, and it's popping up again, slightly more coherent this time. Melburnian's suggestion seems ideal to sidestep the problem involved. Nihiltres(t.l) 17:42, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete, dicdef, and one that's already covered satisfactorally at Wiktionary. Lankiveil 08:15, 22 July 2007 (UTC).
  • Redirect Per Nihil. Twenty Years 13:39, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Retain Although the current entry probably does deserve a wiktionary entry rather than a wikipedia, the presence of a stub would encourage others to expand on its place in Australian culture etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.8.97 (talk • contribs)
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.