Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of UK railfan jargon


 * 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 of the debate was KEEP. &mdash; J I P  | Talk 05:56, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

List of UK railfan jargon
Wikipedia is not a slang guide. --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 12:44, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Quick Explanation - Discussion on Railfan suggests moving the jargon section, was either UK or US based I started moving the UK stuff to that article and made a link for a future US one, the aim being to reduce the overall size of Railfan--Enotayokel 12:55, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Legitimate break out article. Choalbaton 13:08, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Discussion in Railfan obviously didn't take that part of WP:NOT into account. Lists of words are not suitable encyclopedic articles; they should be moved to Wiktionary. --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 13:42, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki as above if appropriate (I know little of this Wiktionary of which you speak) or rename and expand into an encyclopaedic article on the development and etymology of anorak railfan jargon. - Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] AfD? 13:58, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand per Choalbaton. -- JJay 22:47, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Extra thought - Would it be better to move the list to a subpage of railfan - similar to a Livejournal Cut? - Enotayokel 01:32, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * keep As stated above, it's a subarticle of railfan because the list was getting too long to remain in the article itself. We've held discussions on the talk page about this list specifically.  Pages like this have wide and longstanding precedent; see Computer jargon (created September 30 2001), List of baseball jargon (March 11 2003), List of lumberjack jargon (November 4 2003), Mathematical jargon (October 5 2004) and Poker jargon (April 18 2001) for other examples of this type of article.  If this article is deleted for the reasons stated in the nomination, then all of these need to be deleted for the same reason.  Slambo (Speak)  15:38, 5 January 2006 (UTC)


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