Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Foot-tapping


 * 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   no consensus. King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 00:34, 14 August 2010 (UTC)

Foot-tapping

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Pure original research, written like marketing copy, no references. Burpelson AFB (talk) 02:20, 31 July 2010 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget  00:48, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
 * For what it's worth, foot tapping already redirects to entrainment (biomusicology), which a quick search for sources does appear to be the correct scientific name for the process by which bodily rhythms become synchronized to an external beat. (See ISBN 9780195340051 pp. 44 et seq., for example.) Uncle G (talk) 02:37, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * A further quick search for sources turns up no accepted translations for the Québécois podorhythmie, and English just directly borrowing the word. So if this belongs anywhere, it is at podorhythmie. Uncle G (talk) 02:48, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Weak keep - There's a good article to be written on this subject here. This is a bad one. Carrite (talk) 14:52, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:22, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep There seems to be a large topic as foot-tapping is used in multiple ways - as a beat clock in numerous musical forms such as flamenco or ragtime or to provide an irregular rhythm or emphasis in forms like Norse poetry. See Beethoven's Anvil for some commentary on the underlying neurophysiology.  Colonel Warden (talk) 07:26, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment Should this article be disambiguated from the nervous tick and the solicitation technique used by gay men in bathroom stalls? Freakshownerd (talk) 22:24, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Do you have any evidence that anyone actually calls it "foot tapping"? As I wrote above, "podorhythmie" (sometimes "podorythmie") seems to be the actual name, although I didn't find any good sources in my quick search that documented what it actually was. Uncle G (talk) 08:09, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * This article discusses it and notes a book from 1970 that discusses this and other bathroom courtship rituals . "Published in 1970, "Tearoom Trade" is full of useful information about foot tapping, shoe touching, hand signaling and all the other rituals those so inclined use to make contact with one another in such places." Many people may be curious about this subject so I think it would be good to point them in the right direction. Freakshownerd (talk) 16:04, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * A book that isn't about the subject discussed in this article at all isn't evidence. Once again:  Do you have any evidence that what is discussed here, in the article at hand that we're supposed to have read, is called "foot tapping"? Uncle G (talk) 16:52, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * My comment related to whether disambiguation would be beneficial, so I don't understand your response. An article that discusses foot tapping and is titled with the terminology foot tapping and that notes a book covering foot tapping seems solid evidence for that usage. I know that subject isn't discussed in this article. That's why I was asking about disambiguation. Freakshownerd (talk) 17:24, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Disambiguation is for multiple topics that would have articles at, or redirects at, the same title. So for this article to require disambiguation would involve, as a premise, the notion that its proper title, or an alternative name for it, is "foot tapping" in the first place.  As I said above, I couldn't find any evidence that the English name of this is anything but a direct borrowing of the Québécois name.  But I haven't yet found it documented under that name, either, although I've not done as complete a search as I would like.  fr:podorythmiste, alas, has nothing useful in this regard. Uncle G (talk) 02:05, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.
 * 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.