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[edit] deletion

I will edit this page so it does not get deleted. I will try to do that before the Aug 6 deadline, but if I need to remove the tag to extend the deadline, please assume good faith on my part.Kanmalachoa 20:03, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

don't delete it. There's plenty of wiki articles on derogatory names for leftists -SWF

I consult Wikipedia for up-to-date information and explanations of terms I'm not clear on. I was a bit late in looking up "wingnut"--the article has been deleted. Surely a factual NPOV version belongs in WP. Google finds 1,040,000 instances for wingnut politics--a prima facie case for WP inclusion, I'd say. No problem finding a reference, it's right here in the WP article on Moonbat:

Safire, William. "On Language: Moonbats, wingnuts", New York Times/Intl. Herald-Tribune, 2006-09-03. Retrieved on 2007-03-18.

Another Safire NYT column, courtesy of the Taipei Times archive:

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2004/04/11/2003136244 

Safire, William. "On Language: `Wing nut:' do we need a new name to call extremists? New York Times/Taipei Times, 2004-04-11.

And an academic source:

Glowka, Arthur Wayne. "Among the New Words" American Speech, Volume 75, Number 2, Summer 2000, pp. 184-198.

4granite 08:51, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation

How does one go about fixing the link to 'wingnut' so that it doesn't point to a tree? It should be obvious to anyone who is not a tree that the most common usage of the term 'wingnut' today is in the political context and not the arborial one.66.245.81.219 12:53, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

==hmm== not sure when the lowbrow political shit-slingers appropriated this term, but it has been around for decades, as a way of describing crazy people (like the wingnuts down at the soup kitchen). I think the political usage is rather recent, but as politics turns up in print far more often than street slang, I suppose it doesn't matter.

• Maybe it has been changed since the opening post, but it points to a disambiguation page, as it should. The term wingnut has so many meanings that we cannot assume that everyone who types it into the search box is a Moonbat looking for the political usage. - Crockspot (talk) 22:23, 20 November 2007 (UTC)