Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brownbagging


 * 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. Cool Hand Luke 10:26, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Brownbagging

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procedural nomination&mdash;article version at time of AFD Article nominated for PROD-deletion with rejection in October 2007, then re-PROD'd in December 2007. First PROD nominator stated: "UScentric slang word, un-encyclopedic". Second PROD nominator stated: "this is a neologism, and Wikipedia is not a dictionary or guide to slang." User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 14:30, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - I repeat my PROD nomination: this is a neologism, and Wikipedia is not a dictionary or guide to slang. JohnCD (talk) 14:37, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to Wikitionary. Blueboy96 14:43, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. The article has already been transwikied anyway. Although the tidbit about patent violation could be mentioned in an appropriate article. --Blanchardb- Me MyEars MyMouth -timed 14:43, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep per recent changes to the article. --Blanchardb- Me MyEars MyMouth -timed 22:12, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:47, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. The agricultural jargon of brown-bagging is important and controversial. I have added a book source although several of the "see also" sources seemed sufficient per WP:NEO. I split off the agricultural meaning to brownbagging (agriculture) and left brownbagging as a disambiguation page.--Dhartung | Talk 16:52, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Merely from looking at the article alone, I had no doubt that brownbagging (agriculture), which is where the nominated article now is, should be kept. (I looked at the cited sources, anyway.  They support the article.  I fully expected them to, given Dhartung's work in the past.)  It's vastly better than it was.  Well done. Whether we need the new disambiguation at Brownbagging is debatable.  It's really only disambiguating between the aforementioned and the concept of a packed lunch, whose article is a stub and wherein discussion of the sorts of places one takes a packed lunch to, and what one takes it in, obviously belong.  A headnote disambiguation would have done just as well as a full disambiguation article.  But I have no strong opinion on removing the full disambiguation article now that it exists. Uncle G (talk) 18:27, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Thanks for the vote of confidence, Uncle G! Shoulders of giants &c. As for the dab page, I have just added the two (older) meanings of drinking alcohol in public or carrying it to a restaurant, and I'm working on a couple more. I wikilinked brownbag as well, which is currently PRODded but probably salvageable. --Dhartung | Talk 21:48, 15 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep Well written disabig page. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 22:39, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep as a perfectly notable slang word. WP is not censored, nor is any meaning of this term so objectionable as to be offensive to many persons.  This term is not so new as to be a Neologism. Good sources can be found easily. Bearian (talk) 20:44, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep This looks fine to me. GlassCobra 21:43, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep - My initial reaction was sceptical, never having heard the word, but having looked at the article I think it is OK. Springnuts (talk) 18:30, 21 December 2007 (UTC)


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