Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pedel

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. BLANKFAZE | (&#1095;&#1090;&#1086;??) 21:26, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Pedel
Delete Article appears to be the definition of a slang term used by a small number of people. Searches for Pedel and PDS return no relevant results on a number of search engines. Google searches for "You are such a Pedel!" and "It's like Pedal!" (phrases suggested by the article's creator as examples of common usage (See: Talk:Pedel)) return no results at all, further suggesting that the term is unused outside of an extremely small group. As such, it appears to be both a vanity page, and an article with no potential to become encyclopedic -- g026r 23:06, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, no potential to become encyclopeic, unsuitable for transwiki--nixie 03:24, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Pedal to prevent article recreation. Megan1967 06:19, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * please see again the discussion, more arguments arrived. 80.144.124.167 14:19, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Amusingly, in amongst all of their "why can't we have an encyclopaedia article on every word? This is a free encyclopaedia!" flailings at Talk:Pedel, the anonymous users have (accidentally) hit upon a real meaning for this word in their random Google citations.  It's a position, akin to a master of ceremonies (for graduations, public processions, Ph.D. examinations, and the like), in universities in the Netherlands.  The term is derived from bidellus generalis, the same root from which comes Beadle, a similar (but not identical) master of ceremonies in Scotland and England.  This article, of course, mentions none of this, and (given that it gives "dick" and "janitor" as synonyms) is very probably an attack page directed at the person in the photograph, whose initials no doubt are "P.D.L.".  Delete, unless you want me to do yet another rewrite.  &#9786; Uncle G 15:49, 2005 Mar 15 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Uncle G, who seems to have been put to more trouble than this article could have ever been worth. Edeans 19:38, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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