Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shpants

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 of the debate was delete. —Cleared as filed. 01:51, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Shpants

non-encyclopedic nonsense - invented by 9th grader during the summer ... ERcheck 01:43, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete - per nomination. The content of the article is nonsense. ERcheck 01:43, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - dittos will381796 01:48, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

*Speedy Delete per CSD:A1 (patent nonsense). Peyna 01:50, 2 December 2005 (UTC) **Okay, it might not quite qualify as patent nonsense, but it's pretty close. Peyna 01:58, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

• Move to Three quarter pants and redirect Shpants and Shants to Three quarter pants. Peyna 04:27, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
  • I went ahead and created Three quarter pants and redirected Shants there. I also added an entry at Shorts, so all that needs done now is to redirect Shpants to Three quarter pants and this AfD can be done away with. Peyna 04:33, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete - neologism -Satori ^(talk) 02:03, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. No verifiable evidence presented. This article from the San Francisco Chronicle credits comic Arj Barker with using the phrase see [1]. However, with 187 Google hits, it is still very much in neologism stage. Keep Zordrac's rewrite and move to three quarter pants. Capitalistroadster 02:07, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
  • It kind of reminds me of back in high school when my friends and I used to wear shlong sleeve shirts. Peyna 02:17, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
• Shdelete it. RabidMonkeysEatGrass, It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine (and I know you will feel fine, too) 03:11, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect Rename as 3/4 pants or Three quarter pants - there is actually a word that means that. It is called a 3/4 pant. There is also skort for skirt-shorts and so many other names. This is just the wrong word for the term. Zordrac (talk) is a wishy washy Darwikinian Eventualist 03:45, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Comment: 3/4 pants exist. See 17,000 google hits. Including this: [2], this [3] and many others. Commonly used product range. Note that we should have an article about this phenomenon. Wikipedia does not appear to have an article on the topic yet. three quarter pants does not exist. Zordrac (talk) is a wishy washy Darwikinian Eventualist 03:43, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

I rewrote the page so it is about 3/4 pants, which is what she is describing there. A lot of people think they are the first to invent something, not realising it already exists. Zordrac (talk) is a wishy washy Darwikinian Eventualist 03:43, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

About the closest thing I could find is Capri pants, but this word is a neologism, so a redirect is a bit much. Peyna 03:39, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Nah, Capri pants are different. They might have similarities, but they are different. Zordrac (talk) is a wishy washy Darwikinian Eventualist 03:46, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

• Comment: In the shorts article, it mentions Shants. Perhaps these are all words for the same thing? Zordrac (talk) is a wishy washy Darwikinian Eventualist 03:52, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as neologism. Add redirect if one must to 3/4 pant. Ifnord 20:08, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment-- Shpants is a neologism for 3/4 pants, and probably used only by a very small number of people. As such, I don't think it merits a redirect for the content of the current article. ERcheck 21:33, 3 December 2005 (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.