Talk:Bamf

Dane Cook
FYI, comments about Dane Cook's acronym do not belong on this page. If you would like such a page, see BAMF. This article is about Bamf, not BAMF.McKay 18:55, 23 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Hey bud, if you search BAMF as opposed to Bamf, it redirects to Bamf; therefore, there is no way to search it. ►  mdesrosii ◄ 20:02, 11 November 2006 (UTC)


 * That's because it was deleted: deletion log for BAMF. If you would like to recreate that article, feel free, but it's going to need some extern references to stay alive. If you would like to post them here (on the talk page and not on the article page), first for review, that would be acceptable, but not necessary. McKay 16:56, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, how would people feel about moving this article to Bampf (currently a redirect to here), and Bamf can be a dab page referencing this page, and Dane cook's term? I don't like it much, but while BAMF isn't notable, it is popular (stupid dane cook). McKay 03:35, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

FYI b/c you are all so simple minded, Dane Cook did not create BAMF. It's been in the military way before Dane Cook was famous. After all, soldiers simply are Bad Ass Mother Fuckers. But honestly, what other culture would have more bad asses than the military for this acronym to come to fruition. Much like: BOHICA, SNAFU,and FUBAR. Stop givng Dane Cook so much credit. He has been accused to plagiarism multiple times.

What kind of rule is this?
If this Dane Cook acronym "BAMF" is supposedly either not notable enough, or not appropriate enough, to warrant a small disambiguation link at the top, then why does the article BAMF, which when clicked upon only points to Dane Cook, link there? Clearly it is notable enough for it to be set aside as a legitimate #redirection page as judged by someone here, yet there appears to be some unwritten rule being enforced by that same someone that it seemingly does not merit mention in a disambiguation notice when one might search for BAMF but get Bamf instead.

What is this arbitrary decision based upon? BAMF is either noteworthy or it's not. Either way I could not care, but it's got to be either one or the other but not both. What is it? --Downwards 06:30, 26 April 2007 (UTC)


 * First the facts:
 * Dane Cook created this term "BAMF"
 * This term has nothing to do with the current article Bamf
 * Articles have been created several times
 * the Dane Cook article mentions his BAMF term (under content)
 * the Bamf article gets vandalized with dane cook's content frequently.
 * Now the policies:
 * That content has been removed at least three times due to non-notability. Wikipedia policy says that it's not notable enough for it's own article (unless someone can source it)
 * The criteria for inclusion in a larger article is less strict than it's own article. I.e. It's probably fine for the BAMF content to be in the dane cook article.
 * Downwards is purporting that because it isn't notable, it can't have a redirect page. I'm sorry, but that's not wikipedia policy. Subtropical Depression Twenty-two (2005) isn't notable enough for inclusion in wikipedia, but it's still a redirect to a page where it's mentioned.
 * So to answer your question "What kind of rule is this?" It's a rule to help people coming to the encyclopedia to be able to find the stuff they're looking for, even if it isn't notable enough for it's own article. McKay 15:36, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

At the moment I think the BAMF link works very poorly - I arrive at the Bamf page expecting or hoping to find out what the acronym BAMF means. Some people will do this - I did earlier today. I clicked the link, and got redirected to Dane Cook without explanation - I guessed there might be a mistake, then eventually searched through the page and found the reference. Wouldn't it be better to change the text on this page to something like "BAMF is also a slang acronym used by Dane Cook." rather than "For other uses, see BAMF", which gives a confusing redirect. This seems completely logical and sensible to me and I was about to make the change except for the strong warning on Bamf not to include anything about BAMF - is this actually controversial? As in, does anyone actually think that this would be worse than what's there at the moment? Unless there's a convincing argument (or even any argument at all) I'll change it. Matt 20:23, 24 May 2007 (UTC)


 * You said "I clicked the link, and got redirected to Dane Cook without explanation". I'm going to say that that isn't true, up at the top there's a note saying "(Redirected from BAMF)". Which is how wikipedia expects redirects to work.
 * Having said that, if you'd like to change the hatnote, feel free. This article is not about Dane Cook's acronym, so information about it doesn't belong in the article. But making sure people who are looking for his acronym can find the relevant information should be allowed. McKay 20:37, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Bad ass mother fucker

Robert Asprin's MythAdventures and "BAMF"
Myth Directions, Myth-ion Improbable and Sweet M.Y.T.H.-tery of Life contain sparse instances of BAMF (in caps) being used to connote dimensional travel. The latter-day MythAdventures books co-written by Jody Lynn Nye use it more frequently. 71.131.218.43 15:45, 19 May 2007 (UTC)


 * So, the question is, can the information be added in an attributable manner? McKay 14:37, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
 * okay, it's been several months now, and the statement hasn't been attributed. I'm not opposed to the statement, but it shouldn't be here with out better attribution. Feel free to re-add it with attribution. McKay 16:42, 31 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I also noticed that the query "BAMF" redirects to the Bamf article. There should be a disambiguation page for "Bamf", because "BAMF" is most commonly an acronym for "Badass Motherfucker". Yes, I know this sounds ridiculous because it contains profanity, but it's true.(Myscrnnm (talk) 15:06, 24 May 2008 (UTC))

Does this help?
I created BAMF (disambiguation), which as you see includes this use, 2 obscure acronyms, and the ubiquitous you-know-what. I have noticed that BAMF is used as a form of vandalism, where its placed next to a (male) persons name as an apparent obscure rank or title. i propose "bamfalism" be used to refer to acts of vandalism using this acronym. Hopefully, Beavis and Butthead will not discover ive done this...Mercurywoodrose (talk) 08:17, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Learn to write, Millennials
"The term is derived from the sound Nightcrawler makes when teleporting."

So, it's like a magic word, but not a word, like "shazam"?

No, idiots. Is 'thwip' the noise Spider-Man makes when he shoots a web? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.115.175.242 (talk) 04:06, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

Spider-Man may very well make that noise but he doesn't -say- it as a spoken word. Was that your point?

Bamfin/Bamfout settings in DikuMUD
These settings which set what messages an immortal character creates on entering/leaving with the goto command, are presumably derived from the comic book term. I fully expect though if I attempted to put this on the main page, such a thing would 'fail notability requirements' or violate some other Wikipedia rule (notwithstanding that the DikuMUD source has been around for a quarter-century, and the setting was packaged with the vanilla Diku source). Far better to let someone who is actually expert at Wikipedia determine if the (admittedly sparse) attributable material on DikuMUDs includes this info or not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.34.146.76 (talk) 17:12, 23 October 2018 (UTC)