Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Paki shop

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/redirect. The target article seems to require better referencing than currently exists for this term, so the people suggesting merger below will need to look into this. W.marsh 02:30, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Paki shop

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This page was speedily deleted in September, although it did not validly meet any of the speedy deletion criteria. I asked for this to be restored so that it goes through a full AfD process. As for the article itself, I think a merge of any sourcable content and redirect to the "Paki" section of List of ethnic slurs would be the best option. h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 20:00, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

• Keep and Merge I agree. Its a valid article, but defo merge with slur article. scope_creep 20:47, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect to the "Paki" section of List of ethnic slurs per nom, and merge any sourcable/non-redundant content to there or to Convenience store. Iain99^{Balderdash and piffle} 23:54, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Redirect - as the admin who deleted it, I agree with this. ELIMINATORJR 00:42, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

• It's definitely not a valid article. If you're going to include "Paki shop" you may as well include "redneck bar", for example. The term "Paki" on it's own doesn't even have it's own page, and just redirects to "List of ethnic slurs". Furthermore, "Paki shop" isn't even a widely used term in itself. Search Google for it and you'll only find 547 instances of it. There are multiple different variations of what they might call a shop owned by someone of South Asian descent, such as "The Paki's" being much more common where I live, and others such as "Paki store", "the Paki tip" etc. The content just describes the origin of the racial slur "Paki", which is already covered in the list of ethnic slurs and the description of what a "Paki shop" sells is just that of a convenience store. I think it should just be removed outright like it was before, or it should redirect to the List of ethnic slurs. It's a really stupid article and doesn't deserve a place in Wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Impulsion (talk • contribs) 23:20, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
• Merge and Redirect. I'm undecided whether it would be better merged into List of ethnic slurs or Convenience store, but it should go into one or other of those. Definately shouldn't continue to exist in its own right. --AliceJMarkham 04:30, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
• Redirect & Merge, per Iain99. Redirect to list of ethnic slurs and salvage content to convenience store. Witty Lama 14:54, 7 November 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.