Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Israeli slang words


 * 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 delete. While the suggestion that the talk page be used before coming to afd is a really really good one in my opinion, it's not a requirement, and to date no consensus has emerged that it's even desireable. - brenneman  01:19, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

List of Israeli slang words
Isn't this English Wikipedia? None of these words are in normal English vocabulary afaik. jimfbleak 11:24, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * This isn't the first article to be created of forign slang words (Sri Lankan Tamil slang, List of Trinidadian English terms). I think it is of important value since it gives a better impression of a country's culture for the English readers. Acidburn24m 11:33, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * There's a difference between an encyclopaedia article on a particular slang, and a dictionary of slang words. A list of slang words is the latter, not the former.  Notice that Sri Lankan Tamil slang actually makes some attempt to discuss the slang.  A long laundry list of slang word dictionary entries does not make an encyclopaedia article about the slang that they are a part of (any more than a long list of jokes makes an encyclopaedia article about a type of joke &mdash; see ).  It makes a dictionary.  Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Uncle G 15:19, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup, at least provisionally. I see a blank talk page, which suggests that this AfD may be premature.  There's the germ of an article here about Modern Hebrew profanity here, which would sit well alongside our other articles that discuss profanity in various languages. - Smerdis of Tlön 17:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment if the article is on Modern Hebrew profanity it is also poorly named. Nuttah68 18:01, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep per Smerdis of Tlön. Mathmo Talk 17:58, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak keep since it provides one source. The fact that the article discusses non-English words is never a valid deletion argument. However, as Uncle G pointed out, the article as it stands is more appropriate to wiktionary. Latin profanity is a good example of how non-English slang can be discussed encyclopedically; I'm fairly confident that this article could be improved to something approaching that standard, as, due to the unique circumstances of Hebrew, linguists have shown interest in studying the process of the creation of all that slang, so there should be enough reliable sources on the topic. cab 23:17, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletions.   -- SkierRMH 00:56, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Israel or Palestine-related deletions.   -- SkierRMH 00:56, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete or Transwiki only if sourced properly by end of afd  This would a pretty clearcut transwiki to Wikitionary case, if it weren't for the general absence of reliable sources (same rationale for other "foreign slang lists", if they are properly sourced, per WP:NOT/WP:POKEMON). Currently fails WP:V before we even get to WP:NOT. We can speculate about whether a richly detailed academic article on Hebrew slang using a list format will emerge in the future, but there's no evidence of this in the current article. Bwithh 03:39, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as a list of dic defs. Transwiki if someone from Wiktionary confirms they need the info. At the end of the day Wkipedia is not an Israeli Urban Dictionary. As an aside, there is no indication of which languages each term is common to or whether they are common to all parts of society. (Languages of Israel) Nuttah68 15:32, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as per above. --MaNeMeBasat 15:51, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - this isn't realy appropriate for an English encyclopedia...--CastAStone|(talk) 15:58, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Smerdis of Tlön. Use Straw poll on talk page WP:STRAW, or WP:RFC first. WP:AFD is jumping the gun. --ⅮⅭⅭⅬⅩⅩⅤⅠⅠ 17:56, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Sandstein 18:34, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete This is not an article about Israeli slang, it is simply a list of slang words. Unmaintainable listcruft. Chairman S. Talk  Contribs  21:20, 11 February 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.