Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dreaded "b" word


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The result was   delete. Tone 16:28, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Dreaded &quot;b&quot; word
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Not a proper disambig, as none of the article titles contain the purportedly disambiguated phrase, or are even commonly known by that phrase; too indiscriminate to be an article topic. bd2412 T 19:30, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Seems to be a collection of examples of lazy journalism. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:44, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete as not substantiated--Utinomen (talk) 22:02, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete per Utinomen Miles Blues  (talk · contribs) 23:19, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not within scope. —  C M B J   23:19, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Incubate and Keep Don't know if its new meme, cultural idiom or scrap but there seems to be 1000's of ghits with this phrase, and until we know what it is, it's worth allowing the author to expand the article and explain it. scope_creep (talk) 01:52, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Perhaps, but that holds true for any "dreaded [foo letter] word". I get several times as many google hits for "dreaded 'c' word" and "dreaded 'd' word", and nearly as many for "dreaded 'e' word". This is a linguistic function of assigning a quality of dread to an over-used word or a word representing a putatively unpleasant concept, and then identifying the word only by its first letter. There is nothing special about "b" words in the application of this practice, and if the meme belongs anywhere, it is in Wiktionary. bd2412  T 01:33, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - Stuff and nonsense. Carrite (talk) 05:49, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 14:32, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. scope_creep, until we know what it is, it's worth clearing out of the encyclopedia, per WP:N and WP:V. -- JHunterJ (talk) 14:34, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete Time for WP:SNOW. -- Ja Ga  talk 12:25, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete. Patent nonsense with no reliable sources to make any sense of it. Uncle Dick (talk) 23:50, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
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