Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jesus H. Christ

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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. Singularity 00:56, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jesus H. Christ

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Article covers only usage of "Jesus H. Christ" when it could cover usage of "Jesus" or "Jesus Christ" as a more profane term as well. Propose deletion or move to Jesus Christ (profanity) or similar. Suggestions encouraged. . — `CRAZY`(lN)`SANE` 10:42, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

  • Merge per nomination AlbinoFerret (talk) 12:22, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Weak keep Jesus H. Christ is perhaps of interest in and of itself, it has been addressed specifically in the straight dope (which is linked from the article) with much historic speculation on the middle h. BananaFiend (talk) 12:53, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep not sure what part of the deletion policy this article meets, and by the sound of the nomination, that point is iffy. If the article is to be moved or merged, that could have be handled outside AfD. Since we are all here, in theory, I would not oppose having a larger article on the use of "Jesus" and similar variations as an expletive. However, we do not currently have such an article for which this article to be merged. The closest we have is Jesus (name)#As expletive or attribute. So I say keep, and if we ever get enough content in other places to require a larger article, then we can propose a merger then.-Andrew c [talk] 13:26, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. An article that answers a legitimate subject of curiosity. Uncertain why this should be deleted. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:37, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete. Unencyclopedic. Can you imagine an entry like this in Britanica? Maybe shrink & merge (as a couple of sentences at most) in blasphemy. But much of this article is just unsourced speculation, anyhow: this short article uses "may," "perhaps," "likely," "some regard," "are obscure," "it is plausible," etc. about 8-10 times. NCdave (talk) 15:19, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
    • I think it could do with some cleanup, but that's not a reason for deletion. Many articles in Wikipedia would not be found in Britannica :) BananaFiend (talk) 15:21, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep - I think it's significant enough to have its own article. And look at the references - (at least) 2 articles in the jounrnal American Speech - Mr_pand [talk | contributions] 15:26, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete Unencyclopedic. --- Taroaldo (talk) 18:54, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Merge to Christ#Slang usage. Colonel Warden (talk) 19:55, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep, mostly encyclopedic. I.e., Greek backronyms, Twain, and such. Just needs a rewrite. 209.243.55.22 (talk) 21:23, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. In the name of Herman and as per above. --Bobak (talk) 22:24, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep The rampant facist vain of Immediatist, Exclusionist, Deletionist drivebys has got to stop. 198.163.53.10 (talk)
  • Keep: No reason for deletion given. DCEdwards1966 (talk) 19:46, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep No reason better than "I don't like it" given for deletion. Mark Twain discussed the term [1], and it gets over 200,000 Google hits, with 697 hits at Google Books [2], including "The American Language" by H.L Mencken (1945). It is discussed in religious texts like "Behold the Man: The Real Life of the Historical Jesus" (2002)by Kirk Kimball, p 689 [3] . Far more notable than "Christ on a pogo stick" and other miscellaneous Jesus obscenity. Edison (talk) 20:00, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. It is articles like this that drew me to Wikipedia in the first place. (jarbarf) (talk) 17:20, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. It could use some cleanup, but that's not a reason to delete it. Ketsuekigata (talk) 02:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep. I believe that the profane term "Jesus Christ" should be seperate from any other article. --68.224.192.118 (talk) 18:59, 29 March 2008 (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.