Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Up the duff

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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 of the debate was delete both. I'll leave you guys to decide which to redirect though. Seriously I've heard of neither. - Mailer Diablo 17:13, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Up the duff, Up the spazza

Slang terms for being pregnant. Classic unexpandable dicdefs. → Ξxtreme Unction|yakkity yak 14:34, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

  • Delete or transwiki both. Jamie (talk/contribs) 14:45, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
    • Please expend the 10 seconds to check Wiktionary first before suggesting that something be transwikied. Uncle G 21:09, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Never heard that expression myself... I'd think "Up the duff" would possibly refer to shoving something into one of Hilary Duff's body cavities, myself... Delete as a dicdef, possibly suitable for Wiktionary. (Maybe mention this meaning briefly in the Duff disambig page.) *Dan T.* 14:52, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
    • Wiktionary had up the duff for almost nine months (sic!) prior to this article's creation and WikiSaurus has pregnant, too. Any editors who want to write a dictionary or a thesaurus are welcome at Wiktionary. Uncle G 21:09, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete dicdefs r3m0t talk 21:19, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Redirect Up the Duff to Pregnancy. Capitalistroadster 00:33, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete Up the Spazza. This word has two results on Google and is a neologism see [1] and I had never heard of it as an Australian. Capitalistroadster 00:36, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete up the spazza. Up the duff is common in quite a large number of countries, and has been around since at least 1941 (according to the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang), so its hardly a neologism. It's also the title of a (probably NN) play by Sarah MacDougall, so I'd recommend keeping that as a redirect as per Cap. Grutness...wha? 05:54, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
    • The issue isn't whether it's a neologism, but whether an encyclopedia quality article can be created about it. I submit that there is very little more that can be reasonably said about Up the duff that is not already said in the article. Which makes it an unexpandable dictionary definition, and thus not an article worth keeping. → Ξxtreme Unction|yakkity yak 12:21, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
      • yeah, sorry - I mistread Cap's comment about "Up the spazza" as applying to both. I suspect that "Up the spazza" is a local variant of "Up the spout" - another long-standing version of the term. Grutness...wha? 22:53, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletions.
  • Delete Up The Spazza, but redirect Up the Duff to Australian slang. Cnwb 06:13, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete spazza, redirect duff, pre Capitalistroadster. JPD (talk) 11:16, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete up the spazza, redirect up the duff to pregnancy. Proto t c 14:54, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
  • delete. There is probably a suitable list somewhere for this expression. It is not a neologism: it has been current in the UK for as long as I can remember and probably much longer. Gaius Cornelius 17:48, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete up the spazza and redirect up the duff to pregnancy. Sarah Ewart 10:10, 24 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.