Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mrs. degree

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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 merge with Mrs. Since that article already contains a reference to this phenomenon, I'm just going to redirect. People are, of course, free to add or remove or spin around whilst singing anything related to this article. fuddlemark (befuddle me!) 14:27, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mrs. degree

unencyclopaedic fancruft neologism, possibly protologism. Stanfordandson 05:11, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Your use of "fancruft" here gave us all a nice little chuckle, but you should probably think about what motivated you to say it, and why you were such a silly sausage. Not only is the word "fancruft" scientifically proven to be offensive 95% of the time, but it's not even remotely applicable here. As a wise man once said, "Dude! WTF?" fuddlemark (befuddle me!) 14:27, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak Keep, would like to see this improved or merged somewhere else this sociological phenomenon is discussed. fancruft?? neologism?? Not hardly, this is a well-known term. I suspect it is treated somewhere else, though. fancruft??!!?? Shenme 05:18, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak Keep in that it can probably be moved or merged without causing too many problems. Not totally sure about the nominator's reasons per above, although I think it's a worthwhile AfD to have discussion of. BigHaz 05:21, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak Keep the insulting patriarchal anti-women's education slang/stereotype. Apparently common in 1950s USA. But still cheerfully used by conservative Christians[1] and happily recognizable/applicable to Ivy League professional graduates[2] in the 21st century apparently. Bwithh 07:25, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete It's a one-liner for Mrs. and not worth keeping as a redirect. ~ trialsanderrors 08:15, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Weak delete It's definitely not a neologism and it is widely used, but the current article doesn't provide too much. For now the line now present at Mrs. is sufficient, though I don't know that I agree that the current page has no use as a redirect. Regardless, unless somebody has some new major info to the current article, I think it is adequately covered per trialsanderrors. GassyGuy 08:30, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Yeah possibly a redirect, but then we would have to set redirects for the various spellings: MRS, M-R-S, M.R.S., etc. ~ trialsanderrors 08:33, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Redirect to Mrs. There's nothing crucial said in this article that isn't said there, and I question the possibility of expansion. If someone proves me wrong on that, I'd happily change my "vote." -- NORTH talk 09:13, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge/Redirect to misogyny (somewhere under the Misogyny in language heading) --SJK 09:41, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Nothing against mentioning under misogyny, but the redirect should probably go to Mrs., since that's where the term is being put in context. For a non-native speaker the wordplay with MS is pretty tricky. ~ trialsanderrors 09:53, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect at Mrs. - this is a quite old and well known joke, refererenced by PBS. [3] Needs context, references, and other expansion, but the content should be preserved. Smerdis of Tlön 14:45, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect to Mrs. for reasons referenced above. Scorpiondollprincess 16:45, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Delete - there's not much to be said about it. It's just a slang term. -- Whpq 18:10, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Merge to Mrs.; I'm not sure this is the most common name for the term. -- nae'blis (talk) 21:37, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect This is a common term, but I'm not convinced that there's enough for an article. JChap (talk • contribs) 01:17, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep, sad as it is, it is encyclopedic and shouldn't be deleted Antares33712 15:04, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge (if necessary) and Redirect to Mrs.. Seems a bit obvious, really. — Arthur Rubin | (talk) 19:01, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect also I can see this page becoming troll bait if kept. Whispering 19:11, 18 July 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.