Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Social pornography

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The result of the debate was delete. Woohookitty 06:48, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Social pornography

Definition of a slang term. There's no real way to turn it into an article about the history of the thing the term refers to, both because its definition is not very well agreed on and because its usage appears to always be derogatory (so that contruing anything as part of the history of "social pornography" would violate NPOV).

Entail 14:53, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete, with no bias against re-creation. arj 15:01, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, unencyclopedic content. Pavel Vozenilek 17:09, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, POV and dictionary-at-best. Rkevins82 19:01, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. It was going to be "with bias against re-creation", but looking at how many Google hits the term gets even after the Wikipedia mirrors are discounted changed my mind. As Entail points out, however, it's not like there's a single agreed-on meaning of the term; it seems to range from "sexual pornography of a very social kind" to "fantasies of particular social orders being sated in a fashion not unlike pornographic fantasies" to "curiosity about particular social conditions being sated in a manner whose explicitness is reminiscent of pornography" -- and probably more I haven't come across yet. It's perhaps a relief that this particular article is just a POV essay with no attempt to cite or reference, because I think sooner or later there needs to be a real article on the term, in all its senses, by all the people who have given it formal definitions that don't necessarily have anything to do with each other. God bless and God help the editor who tackles it. -- Antaeus Feldspar 19:41, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
• Social pornography is not a slang term. It is a common term in the field of media research. It belongs in Wikipedia. However, the current article needs to go. in this case it's best to start over, and redlinks encourage making of new articles. Punkmorten 23:21, 13 August 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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.