Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Firefly slang words


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The result was Delete. &mdash; Scientizzle 21:11, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

List of Firefly slang words

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WP:NOT - Wikipedia articles are not slang guides, and especially not glossary of fictional slang words from a TV series. Same reasons that a similar fan glossary was deleted at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blade: Dictionary. Saikokira 01:43, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. There is absolutely nothing encyclopedic about a simple list of slangs used anywhere by anyone. --Evb-wiki 01:52, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Reluctant delete. I'm a Browncoat, but on Wikipedia I'm a Wikipedian first. Wikipedia is not (yet) the sum of all knowledge (and isn't trying to be), so this kind of material is still more appropriate for fan sites than here. Some of the Chinese is recorded at Firefly, under the rubric of providing clarifications for quotations. But it is also not the place to transfer this info, just in case anyone might consider this. (See q:Talk:Firefly for more information.) ~ Jeff Q (talk) 04:37, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - Wikipedia is not a collection of trivia. You can't get more trivial than a list of slang from a fictional universe.  Wikipedia is not a dictionary of slang, and it's definitely not a dictionary of made-up slang. --Haemo 06:46, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as Haemo says, this is worse than just a slang dictionary entry, it's a made-up slang dictionary entry. Guy (Help!) 11:50, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Transwiki somewhere - Wiktionary? Urban dictionary? Can we transwiki to Urban dictionary? Is there a Firefly wiki out there somewhere? (I know little about the transwiki process). Otherwise weak keep. Yes, this is a list of slang words, but there are sources that talk about at least the out-of-universe process of creating the Chinese portion of it. Otherwise merge to episode articles in which the slang features prominently (i.e. a sentence in Heart of Gold (Firefly episode) explaining "sly"). I admit I'm motivated in part by WP:ILIKEIT but I want to see this preserved in some form as an important component of the series. Otto4711 12:54, 19 June 2007 (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.