Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Píča

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. SynergeticMaggot 22:28, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Píča

The article is offending and has nothing to do with countries outside the Czech Republic, the title of the article is in fact one of the most vulgar words in the Czech language. Actually, the whole article deals exclusively with an extremely vulgar and offensive symbol. Therefore it is unappropriate to have a separate Wikipedia entry on this topic.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Jakub Jindra (talk • contribs) 2006-08-09 22:35:18

• keep Wikipedia is not censored. ReverendG 23:25, 9 August 2006 (UTC) also, see finger (gesture), Fuck, etc, etc.
• Wikipedia is not censored for the protection of minors. If you wish this article deleted, please provide a rationale that is based upon our Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines, rather than in 100% opposition to them. Uncle G 00:38, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per ReverendG and Uncle G. -- Koffieyahoo 01:34, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - I've tagged this for references but keep pending a better deletion reason - Peripitus (Talk) 01:38, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per nom's own statement, since articles relating to the Czech Republic are also a useful counter to geographical bias. --Celithemis 01:40, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per above, this article isn't written with the intent to be vulgar, it just happens to be about a vulgar topic. By all policy it should stay, and for what it's worth, this certainly isn't the most vulgar article topic on Wikipedia, by a long shot. -- Deville (Talk) 02:41, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

"has nothing to do with countries outside the Czech Republic"

• Objection, Keep! Wikipedia has a large number of systematic biases. Although not listed on WP:BIAS, one of those is that articles on english-as-first-language countries are more common. The above is a bad reason to nominate the article, as there are many articles about subjects that have no interest to those outside of the USA (or the UK, for that matter). LinaMishima 04:32, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
  • More seriously, this does have references, is a cultural version of something detailed in another article, and is usefully informative. LinaMishima 04:32, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. The Czech Wikipedia has an article about it so it must be acceptable enough to them to have in their encyclopedia. --Metropolitan90 05:06, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, sourced, not a dicdef. At the least a procedural keep as no deletion rationale has been provided. --Kinu ^t/_c 05:18, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Deville. Interesting article, by the way. Carlossuarez46 21:23, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

OK, your objections are logical and article will be probably kept. But as a Czech citizen I can assure you that the last sentence in the article was total nonsense (I have already removed it) and the whole article is intentionally written to look professionaly while in fact it is a bad joke. "The symbol isn't included in Unicode" sentence is just ridiculous. This is not a real accepted symbol - it's just a simplified drawing of cunt (this word is most similar to piča) used mostly by teenagers. Also, correct title of article should be piča (píča is used only by minority of Czechs). I have nothing against vulgarisms and I use them too. I just nominated this article for deletion because I was afraid it could be taken seriously by English readers while in fact it is rubbish.--Jakub Jindra 22:02, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as per Jakub. MaNeMeBasat 14:28, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I've translated this (or I've tried) from Czech lang. If I thought it is nonsence, I wouldn't make it. It's not a joke. It's true, Wikipedia is about description of real world, not about choosing what's right and what's wrong. Miraceti is the original author and he's sysop on cswiki and has over 6000 edits [1]. Petr K 22:39, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Please see my statement at Talk:Píča. Miraceti 23:39, 13 August 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.