Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smelly fart


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The result was redirect to Flatulence. -- Patar knight - chat/contributions 02:29, 14 October 2017 (UTC)

Smelly fart

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Subjective and indiscriminate, seemingly a WP:REDUNDANTFORK which doesn't appear mergeable. Drewmutt ( ^ᴥ^ ) talk  03:12, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Medicine-related deletion discussions. TonyBallioni (talk) 16:45, 6 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep possibly rename to flatus. -
 * Just because the title may be offensive to some does not alter the fact that this is legitimate article about a legitimate topic which has been legitimately studied by legitimate scientists in response to legitimate concerns by legitimate members of the public. (its totally legit) - I won't bother with the toliet humor, this is not the place.
 * On a more serious note, this article is about the actual fart itself, that is, the cloud of gas. Obviously it can't be merged with flatulence, which is about the medical condition, and the human condition of actually creating a fart. (like how singing and song are separate). The fart once released is a physical object which deserves an article, as a highly relevant topic to everyone who hasn't managed to somehow avoid ever releasing a 'fart'.
 * I am not adverse to this being renamed to something more scientific, I just went with the common term.
 * Finally I will draw a comparison to Feces and Defecation, in this situation flatus and flatulence, one is about the object/thing emitted, one is about the process by which the human body emits it. Dysklyver  19:13, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
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 * Redirect - to Flatulence. Half the sources don't even use those words in that order at all. The ones that do just happen to use those words in that order, and not discuss this in any way as if it is a distinct phenomenon from simply flatulence. We ought not be in the habit of making "adjective articles" unless they're treated in depth by the sources as a distinct topic. Just because you can do a google search for "tall horse" and get lots of hits doesn't mean that "tall horse" is a distinct topic from "horse", some of which happen to be tall. It just means that some people happened to use those words in that order in passing.  G M G  talk   23:52, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete While I see the point that Dysklyver is stating, I see it a bit differently. Shit and Fuck have their own articles which talk about the words themselves, the fact that they are vulgar and the use of the words. Shit contains a hatnote directing to defecation for the act itself and defecation is not discussed in "Shit". The problem with Smelly fart is that it's claiming in the hatnote and top section to be about the phrase itself... but then goes on to talk about the act of farting itself, referring to it as flatulence which is already an existing article. As far as I can see the respected term for "farting" is actually "flatulating" (like the respected term for "shitting" is defecation). I don't see "flatulating" and "flatulence" as warranting separate articles. I'd say that this article could be merged with Flatulence to add info regarding the act of flatulating that isn't there already... but there simply is not enough useful information here to warrant it. "Flatus" is the gas itself, "flatulence" is the act of generating it, and "flatulating" is the act of expelling it. These can be discussed in the same article as "flatus" and "flatulence" already are. If fart isn't "vulgar enough" to have it's own article about the word itself, like Shit and Fuck, then "Smelly fart" definitely can't. - Vanstrat (talk) 22:01, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirect to fart. Come on guys, let's wind this up.    Dr Strauss   talk   22:21, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirect to flatulence. This is basically a definition of the word, meaning that it fails WP:NOTDICT, and thus should be deleted or redirected. In this case, since there is a valid redirect, it should be redirected. RileyBugz 会話 投稿記録  22:35, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Redirect per WP:CHEAP. Bearian (talk) 00:14, 14 October 2017 (UTC)


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