Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Swabian salute


 * 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   no consensus. Nja 247 07:00, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

Swabian salute

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I can find no evidence of this phrase (Swabian salute) being used to describe Leck mich im Arsch and the like. Ironholds (talk) 13:29, 3 June 2009 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:01, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * I can, and it took me about thirty seconds. The German Wikipedia has a good, and sourced, description of the phenomenon: de:Schwäbischer Gruß. If kept, this article should be renamed to Schwäbischer Gruß because there are no sources for the English version.  I would not strongly object to its deletion regardless of that, because Wikipedia is not a German-English dictionary and this phrase is not a loanword into English, so I shall not !vote.— S Marshall   Talk / Cont  00:10, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable. I'm not sure about the rename proposed by S&M. This is the English language Wikipedia. We'll have to duke it out on the article talk page with the losing receiving an appropriate salute in their preferred language. ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:18, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Could you give some kind of evidence of notability? The notability of the german phrase is already established, and it is found in other articles. The question is essentially over whether the phrase "swabian salute" is notable. Ironholds (talk) 06:38, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Isn't this article title just a translation of the german phrase? If that's notable, and I agree it is based on the sources in the German article, then why wouldn't the phrase be notable under an article title translated to English? ChildofMidnight (talk) 18:32, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * The phrase is notable, but the idea that it is known as the "swabian salute" isn't backed up by anything I can find. Ironholds (talk) 18:34, 10 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment - I seem to recall a joke about Albert Einstein and his Swabian roots.... Bearian (talk) 00:39, 11 June 2009 (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.