Talk:Sniggle

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This appears to be a neologism, a made-up word that is not in general usage (and an obscure word for eel fishing which is also not in general usage). A quick Google for the word returns usages, in the "culture jamming / prankster" sense, ONLY pages on sniggle.net and Wikipedia and its clones. I don't think that a word made up by the people that run a web site and not used elsewhere justifies a Wikipedia article, and I vote to delete it, as well as remove the word from all the pages that link to this, since it is not a word understood by the general English-speaking population. It clearly survived VfD once before in November 2003; since it is functionally impossible to look back in the VfD history that far, I have no idea why. It was removed from VfD after four days, suggesting that a complete vote was not taken. —Morven 10:41, Sep 18, 2004 (UTC)

  • Delete. The eel meaning appears to be legitimate. Transwiki that to wiktionary. —Rory ☺ 11:41, Sep 18, 2004 (UTC)
  • I would say keep, since it only links to culture jamming (we need to check that article to make sure that snigle.com hasn't been added to it inappropriately). However, because "sniggle" is a sort of proprietary slang term, this amounts to advertising stuck on top of a dict def, so delete. Geogre 12:55, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • I have removed pretty much all the references to this on Wikipedia. —Morven 02:03, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete - Tεxτurε 17:12, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • While the present content of the sniggle article is in fact a disambiguation page I vote for: (1) create Sniggle (disambiguation), where the fishing term links to wiktionary and the prankster meaning to culture jamming; (2) make both sniggle and sniggling redirect pages to the sniggle (disambiguation) page. --Francis Schonken 22:05, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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