Talk:Fairy-locks

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This article was nominated for deletion on November 7, 2007. The result of the discussion was keep.

Fairy-Riding is an existing article. Fairy-Locks is as appropriate as Fairy-Riding. Fairies riding on livestock tangle their fur and leave them exhausted the next day. Fairies playing in a sleeping girl's hear leave it tangled and knotted the next day.

In an effort to avoid adding an article that does not site references, I provided a print reference. I am greatly annoyed that the effort to site a reference was decried as a book-promotion attempt.

I just read through all seven pages of Google results for "Fairy-locks", and could find none that clearly used this definition. about half were for a shampoo by that name. Others were for various uses of the term from the hair of fairies, to fairy-like hair, to locks used by fairies. Mention in one book does not inherently make the term notable. More references would be useful/needed for that. Improbcat 16:15, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

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I had checked out a book about fairies in which it mentioned fairy locks. When I put in the article orginally, I had the reference included. It was deleted and, as I have returned the book to the library, I no longer can make the page reference.

It might occur to you that if fairy-locks were tangles in the child's hair, then one might create a shampoo to untangle fairy-locks.

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I believe Elf locks is the more common term. Not convinced by the stuff in the AfD that this wouldn't be better off under Elf locks, if indeed it can be salvaged and not just included in one of the other Fairy articles. Also, in reference to comments in AfD, I know of no sources for "Celt warriors" wearing dreadlocks. I'm pretty certain that's a product of fantasy fiction and RPGs. - Kathryn NicDhàna ♫♦♫ 07:41, 24 November 2007 (UTC)