Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WATB

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. W.marsh 01:41, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WATB

Slang dicdef. I proded it, creator deproded, has been taged for transwiki to Wiktionary, but i doubt it will pass their criteria Eivind^t@c 15:38, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete as per Wikipedia is not a dictionary. --Allen3 ^talk 15:57, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, seems to be neologism --TBC^{??? ??? ???} 16:37, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - I am an active editor and I use the Wikipedia as my first source for extraneous imformation. I see this term being referenced, search for it and the article doesn't exist. The search interface doesn't send you to the Wiktionary. I suspect that many people are looking for the meaning of this acronym at the moment as it is in heavy use at Eschaton and firedoglake, among many other places. When you try to find a term that doesn't exist in the Wikipedia the SUGGESTION is to START THE ARTICLE FOR IT YOURSELF. Done. Wouldn't we rather have a page come up where there was none? The Wikipedia is RIFE with neologisms... It's silly to delete something that serves a purpose once it is established in the Wikipedia. Must KEEP. --AStanhope 16:39, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• delete WP:WINAD and nn protologism. Feel free to AfD those neologisms you mentioned too. Esquizombi 16:41, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

• Why would one want to delete other neologisms that exist in the Wikipedia? I don't understand. --AStanhope 17:01, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

  Because Wikipedia is not a dictionary, and this article shows little to no hope of ever being more than a simple slang definition. --Allen3 ^talk 17:07, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

  • Comment Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms Esquizombi 17:17, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete dictdef (tried to look for it on google to verify but got lot of unrelated hits) RJFJR 16:46, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as nn neologism Computerjoe's talk 17:19, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:NEO. It's in current use in the lefty blogosphere per Astanhope, but I'm not sure this is old enough to be transwiki'd, and it definitely doesn't belong in Wikipedia. Maybe Urban Dictionary could use it. Alba 20:33, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Encise 22:49, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. --Khoikhoi 02:05, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:WINAD. —LrdChaos 18:02, 26 March 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.