Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Columbo tip


 * 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   delete. Cirt (talk) 07:56, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Columbo tip

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I have removed the speedy from the article because this is not blatant vandalism. Possible reasons for deletion could be WP:DICDEF and WP:N. Cunard (talk) 08:02, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: Here is the discussion on the talk page:

Cunard (talk) 08:02, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * The talk page clearly indicates that this is an attempt to grow a dictionary entry for a slang phrase. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, of slang or otherwise.  It's an encyclopaedia, and articles here are about the people/places/concepts/events/things denoted by their titles.  We have the clitoris documented under clitoris, unsurprisingly enough.  An alternative title redirect would require verification that this really is an alternative, slang, name for the clitoris, which the talk page comment ("you might not find it in most lexicons") indicates isn't forthcoming. Nekramvil/174.2.11.221, the dictionary is thataway.  Note that you will be required to demonstrate multiple occurrences of the idiom in separate, published and permanently recorded, instances of running text.  When you look for those, you'll discover the reason why you don't find connections to the clitoris in most lexicons: It isn't actually true.  Uncle G (talk) 08:21, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete; implausible original research as well as a non-notable neologism. Moreover, given what the word apparently seeks to define, my first suggestion for an origin would be Columbo (TV series) and the character played by Peter Falk, rather than an eighteenth century anatomist.  If this term has actual usage and currency, it might merit a mention at the article about the TV show.  - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 14:47, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. If I had caught it with the speedy tag, I would have zapped it. Unreferenced waffle. Protologism. &mdash; RHaworth 07:17, 11 October 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.