Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cool beans (2nd nomination)


 * 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. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone  04:36, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Cool beans
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I'm not sure what this article is here for. Elm-39 - T/C 16:37, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's a soft redirect to a Wiktionary entry and as such may be useful to someone. Black Kite 18:05, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. There is really no point in hanging onto a soft redirect to a Wiktionary entry of a relatively recent slang term. It cannot be turned into anything else, and soft redirects should be used sparingly. B.Wind (talk) 06:23, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Question - Is there policy somewhere stating that soft redirects to wiktionary should be used sparingly?  LinguistAtLarge &bull; Msg  04:42, 9 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep Useful soft redirect to Wiktionary.  The slang terms are one of the more useful uses for soft redirects, as they are often pages that regularly get dictionary definitions added to them.  A soft redirect serves to point the user to the proper place for such definition pages, Wiktionary. - TexasAndroid (talk) 04:25, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Note - While this AFD has been open several days, it does not appear to have ever actually been listed on a daily AFD listing. As such, it's surprising it's gotten even this many !votes in the time.  I've now listed it on today's listing log, allowing for official visability of the AFD. - TexasAndroid (talk) 04:29, 9 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep This term has been around for years, is still in common use, and is a viable Wikipedia search. And frankly, the soft redirect likely forestalls a really thin article being attempted on the topic. Townlake (talk) 04:39, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete in present form. I think it's entered culture enough to merit an article. You don't hear it that much in Southern California but people from other areas of the US used it quite widely. That having been said is it a common practice to have a blank article up for AFD? We should at least have some context to !vote on besides a soft redir to a wiktionary. I think Cool Beans may have potential for an article, but nothing's there yet so I have to, however hesitantly, !vote for Delete Valley2 city ‽ 07:15, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete per User:Valley2city. -- Klein  zach  08:47, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Note - This was a full article (maybe stub) from 2006 to 00:05, February 21, 2008. At that time it was converted to the soft-redirect, and it has been policed for vandalism since then. Shadowjams (talk) 09:56, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - I don't know the soft-redirect policies, but they should probably govern the article if it's going to remain a soft-redirect. I'm still not sure that phrases need to be shunned from wikipedia just because they can go on the Wiktionary side. Notability's what counts and i doubt it'll be hard to find reliable sources for this phrase. Maybe the original article pre-soft-redirect (which did have a link to Wiktionary) should be restored. Shadowjams (talk) 09:56, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Strong keep. Likely search term on Wikipedia so it should not be a redlink.  I'm in favour of most or all dicdefs being soft redirects to Wiktionary.-- S Marshall   Talk / Cont  11:24, 9 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Soft redirect to Wiktionary per the comments above. -- Explodicle (T/C) 14:40, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment I've never seen an article that has so many different people obsessed with reverting edits. The last time that it had something to say was almost a year ago when it looked like |this.  Since then, there's a determined effort to replace the article with "Wikipedia does not have an encyclopedia article for Cool beans. You may want to search Wiktionary for "cool beans" instead for a dictionary entry".  No opinion about whether there should be an encyclopedia article for cool beans, but if the consensus ends up being that there should -- live with it, fellas. Mandsford (talk) 17:10, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment -- That's interesting stuff, at least if you're a language nerd (which I am); but the content was mostly etymological, which I feel is more appropriate for wiktionary than wikipedia.-- S Marshall  Talk / Cont  19:06, 9 February 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.