Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Four-letter word

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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 keep.--Fuhghettaboutit 02:01, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Four-letter word

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Totally unreferenced since July 2006 The article is unencyclopaedic.Harlowraman 14:26, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

  • Easy KEEP - The article may need expansion with some references, but "four-letter word" is a common enough euphamism in the U.S., that most American are familiar, but English speakers in other counties and non-native speakers of English might need to look it up. --BaldDee 14:53, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per BaldDee. Wl219 15:21, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep useful reference for new english speakers. References can always be added - that's what editing is for. MarkinBoston 18:05, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep, commonly used euphemism, seems to be more than just a dicdef. Ten Pound Hammer • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps•Review?) 19:39, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep as per all of the above. Eldar 21:57, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep as a notable idiom (search Google News and see how many times X is not a four-letter word comes up). Article needs sources, but this should not be a problem. --Dhartung | Talk 22:26, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep and dare I say snowball? Needs references but goes beyond a dicdef. "Four letter word" is itself a descriptor for any historically or topically unfashionable word, and also used in its anti form too (e.g. "Foo is not a four-letter word" where foo is some "good" term). 326 news hits in just the last week[1] Dbromage [Talk] 23:49, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
    • SNOW is a four-letter word.  :) --UsaSatsui 15:25, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per WP:NEO, WP:OR, WP:N, unless somebody can find reliable independent sources giving coverage to the term, "four-letter word" Corpx 04:27, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge. Come on, there's nothing really here. Just a listing of some naughty words and a couple of jokes. Can't we just merge this to profanity and move on? --UsaSatsui 15:25, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletions. -- the wub "?!" 18:31, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep — Too bad there's not a good source for the origin of this expression. — RJH (talk) 20:16, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep as it just needs better editing and sourcing, which should be easy, folks. Bearian 20:31, 27 August 2007 (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.