Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Birthday punches


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   keep. merge is editorial decision Spartaz Humbug! 19:08, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

Birthday customs and celebrations N&eacute;e Birthday punches
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An unreferenced article about something someone made at school one day. I dream of horses (T) @ 18:59, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - no sources and no links. I'm surprised no-one's gone and tried a faster means of deletion. Tabercil (talk) 19:32, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Proposed Deletion was tried twice. This article has also been through AFD once before. Uncle G (talk) 09:30, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 *  Weak Keep as merge (see below): GNews actually brought up some good refs on this here and here. Other than that, it does not seem to be a widely-spread term... talking  birds  19:42, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Fairly well known here in the UK - see also The bumps. Merge the two to something like Birthday rituals? Alternatively, Transwiki both of them to Wiktionary. Black Kite 22:14, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Several sources appear to treat the two as one subject. ISBN 9780899192505 page 41 does, for example.  Even the Chambers Book of Facts (ISBN 9780550102874), which has an entry for "The Bumps" on pages 18–19, mentions other customs within its discussion.  (It's a highly U.K.-centric treatment of the overall subject, essentially.)  Looking at Birthday it appears that like the Book of Facts our coverage is U.K.-centric and U.S.-centric.  There's no direct path from there to, for example, the Quinceañera.  Nor are there mentions of the non-U.K. non-U.S. customs such as greasing the nose, pulling the earlobes, lifting in a chair, or (indeed) sweeping the steps of the town hall. I agree with Black Kite.  A merger to a more globalized sub-article of Birthday appears in order.  This is especially because half of both this article and the bumps appears to be the product of schoolchildren making things up on the spot.  The remainders even overlap. Uncle G (talk) 10:27, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is actually the second deletion nomination and it failed the last time, so this deletion nomination is mislabelled.  69.253.207.9 (talk) 12:38, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Changing vote to Keep as a merge as per the references provided by Uncle G. A merge into a sub-article for Celebrations seems appropriate. talking  birds  00:16, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.