Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Beard (female companion)

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. Moncrief 06:20, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

Beard (female companion)
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 * Keep. -Seth Mahoney 23:47, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep since it gives a good place to list some examples whether documented or rumored.  Phr 05:32, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Documented examples of beards are great, but I think there has been some discussion elsewhere about whether or not it is okay to publish rumors and the decision was not really, except in exceptional circumstances (I'm sure there is a Wikipedia is not a rumor mill page somewhere around here). -Seth Mahoney 23:02, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't know what "exceptional circumstances" mean. Rumors for the sake of gossip are one thing, but I believe Wikipedia should aim to explain the available theories of things that people are trying to understand, even when those theories can't be established as fact (as long as they aren't labelled as fact).  Right now, a heck of a lot of people are trying to figure out the Tom Cruise-Katie Holmes romance  as well as interpret various previous events in Cruise's career.  The term "beard" expresses a possible unifying explanation that's widely believed by many, so it deserves mention as such.
 * Oh wow. I think that people are generally afraid of ever mentioning Tom Cruise in connection with homosexuality ever on Wikipedia.  Just an FYI.  But yeah, I understand where you're coming from, and there is validity to your point.  What I'm saying is that certain rumors, for example those you'll find in the Daily Sun, belong in the appropriate articles, if they belong on Wikipedia at all - in the case of the example I just gave, they belong in the page, if there is one, for the Daily Sun.  But not every rumor deserves mention.  I'm not here to lay down the law on that, though - Wikipedia editing is a democratic process.  I'm just here to say that such edits might get deleted, and there might be some justification for that somewhere on the wiki.  -Seth Mahoney 19:18, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with beard (sexual), which is almost identical. Don't care which of the two stays, but one of them should. Grutness...  wha?  10:38, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, no reasons to delete. Well written stub. Megan1967 04:05, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. &mdash; Phil Welch 6 July 2005 14:35 (UTC)
 * KeepAstrotrain July 7, 2005 22:32 (UTC)
 * Strong keep - the article is about the topic, not the slang term. -- Karada 12:01, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep- no valid reason to delete that I can see. --Psyk0 12:04, 12 July 2005 (UTC)