Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Diner lingo


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The result was KEEP. postdlf (talk) 22:14, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Diner lingo

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fails WP:WINAD. Bonkers The Clown (talk) 08:21, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment Is the topic of diner lingo notable apart from the dictionary? (Similar to how we have an article on French language but not a dictionary of French words.) There is the ref to the Village Voice article, and there are a few mentions online about diner lingo/diner slang.  --Colapeninsula (talk) 13:40, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep(and remove dubious unsourced entries) By the late 1930's "diner lingo" such as "Adam and Eve on a raft" and several other phrases were actually used between the waitress and the cook to order food in many US diners and cheap eats restaurants. It faded away, probably by the 1960's,  as greasy spoons were replaced by fast food chain restaurants, and became a nostalgia topic. But notability is not temporary. .There have been enough articles dealing with it to satisfy GNG:, .(which notes there's a chapter about it in a book about slang), , (there was a museum exhibit about it). [a promo in a Saturday edition from 1938 promised an article about it in the Sunday edition which I could not find online, but there are likely additional sources such as that which could improve the introductory explanatory section of the article. It was also used in movies and widely in fiction. It is easy to make up new  humorous examples of such argot, so the article should be edited down to remove those lacking good sourcing, and make sure none of the entries were made up by the contributing editor. [[User:Edison|Edison]] (talk) 17:43, 31 October 2012 (UTC).
 * Comment Colapeninsul compares this with the article on the French language, which has no list of words, but a more apt comparison would be with the articles on various cants and argots, which do include referenced examples, so I suggest working on this article to make it look like them. (I'm not saying "Keep it because other stuff exists," but rather "Keep it because the subject is notable, and edit it to be more like comparable articles about other cants.") See Polari, about a cant used by British actors, carnival workers, thieves and homosexuals ( (has a long unreferenced word list), Thieves' cant, which just has 10 unreferenced examples in a list, and Carny a cant used in US carnivals, which has (unreferenced) examples throughout the article rather than a long list such as this article. See Boontling about a secret cant formerly spoken in one town in California; has a wordlist.  Without examples of words, an article about a cant might as well not exist, but I doubt that a mass nom of cant and dialect articles would get anywhere. Edison (talk) 20:47, 31 October 2012 (UTC)


 * KEEP!!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.106.183.195 (talk) 19:48, 31 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Food and drink-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 20:02, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. — Frankie (talk) 20:02, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
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 * Keep Same reasons as above, can't really add anything that Edison (talk) hasn't already said. King of Nothing (talk) 03:30, 2 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep (Redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.58.92.194 (talk) 12:26, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Hello, 109.58.92.194. I've removed your comment above towards the nominator. You're of course welcome to comment on the subject of the article, and why you think it should be kept, but please don't attack other editors — Frankie (talk) 16:02, 5 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep As Edison said, there is material. For articles on topics like these, a list of words ins necessary to show what is being talked about; there should of course also be some discussion.  DGG ( talk ) 20:21, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
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