Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chasing the donkey


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The result was   delete. Cirt (talk) 00:33, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Chasing the donkey

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Neologism; may be WP:MADEUP as ghits for "chasing the donkey" + cannabis don't return anything verifying this claim. Mr. Vernon (talk) 18:38, 18 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete Seems to be a hoax. The article suggests that the phrase was used by the media in descriptions of the US election, but searching google for '"chasing the donkey" obama -kong' (the latter keyword to eliminate results for an article entitled 'chasing the "donkey kong" dream', which is unrelated) turns up precisely three hits, at least one of which is referring to an occasion on which a literal donkey was chased, one of which the phrase occurs in a longer expression, "chasing the donkey's tail", and appears to be unrelated, and the other is an australian source which suggests it is unconnected due to the US-centric origin of the phrase as discussed in the article.  Does not appear in The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, which contains most common slang, and some that is quite rare. JulesH (talk) 18:53, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: very much a hoax. 67.148.15.37 (talk) 21:31, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong delete. The article cannot be verified without references, and based on the searches above, I question whether the article is a legitimate history. —C.Fred (talk) 01:29, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

While "chasing the donkey" may not have yet reached every corner of American life, I have heard this term used by such well-known comedian's as Paul Moonie and Richard Prior. While those people that are not members of the African American community might find it difficult to believe that such a phrase is not in the omniscient Google search engine there are some slang terms that you may not be able to find in a quick online search. To dismiss this particular phrase (that is very well-known to a particular demographic) based solely on a brief web-search is extremely short-sighted. Wikipedia exists as an collaborative up-to-date online tool to bring the latest or sometimes little known information to a wide audience. The phrase "chasing the donkey" has a long, often unpublished, meaning to a American ethnic group that in the past was frequently under-represented by the media. It has made a recent resurgence in reference to cannabis use and politics where "chasing the donkey" was most recently used as a term to describe the futile attempts of senator John McCain to chase his democratic rival senator Barak Obama. It is conceivable that president-elect Obama's race taken in context with the democratic mascot of the donkey revived the "chasing the donkey" colloquialism back into use by some members of the African American community. The reawakening of this largely forgotten American slang term should not be ignored by an organization that touts bringing information from diverse backgrounds into a searchable online database. T.Lindy —Preceding unsigned comment added by TripleLindy (talk • contribs) 03:51, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Claiming racial bias and lack of effort to check sources is innaporpriate. Di you not read "Does not appear in The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English".


 * Delete as either hoax or non-notable slang. Slang that doesn't show up on the net is not notable - this is not some niche scientific dissertation that would require library searches, it claims to be "popular slang", and this is not verifiable from google-searches. I lean towards hoax, as there is no way something said by McCain about Obama or vice versa is not in every newspaper in the world. A joke based on Chasing the Dragon (heroin use)?Yobmod (talk) 12:49, 22 January 2009 (UTC)


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