Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/That's what she said (2nd nomination)


 * 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. Next step may be a merge/redirect discussion on the article's talk page.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 18:15, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

That's what she said
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Only source is Huffington Post. I have found no secondary sources that reliably discuss the use of this term. Rest of article is unsalvageable, unverifiable OR; it seems as if someone's trying to make it seem bigger than it really is. (THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!) Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 22:29, 24 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete. - Great for Urban Dictionary, not Wikipedia. Carrite (talk) 22:38, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Said the actress to the bishop per Mandsford below. Carrite (talk) 17:14, 25 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Said the actress to the bishop, which is another (and older) version of the same sentiment. In case this is deleted and one wonders what the article was about, it's the phrase, "That's what she said!" which a quick-witted person might add after hearing an innocent statement that sounds dirty.  (In Wayne's World, Dana Carvey was holding a poster of Claudia Schiffer and said "Are you through yet? I'm getting tired of holding this," and Mike Myers gave the response).  Mandsford 14:58, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment: Wasn't this once a redirect to Double entendre? Why not just restore that?  Cliff smith  talk  16:49, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
 * My feeling is that, like "said the actress", it's a phrase recognizing the existence of a double entendre, and doesn't merit a section in that article. Inevitably, some no-name band will have a track called "That's What She Said" on a no-name album and someone will think that it merits its own article.   Mandsford 17:42, 25 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:30, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to Said the actress to the bishop. (see youtube for all excerpts from The Office, in 5 minutes of agony...) -- Quiddity (talk) 18:42, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep, way more popular than actress to bishop- besides HuffPo you can reference about 100 different eps of The Office. Besides, there's only 1 ref on actress to bishop- what makes that one exempt from deletion but not this one that's way more common in the 21st century? --208.38.59.163 (talk) 19:41, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment: The gag has also appeared more than once in xkcd. —Tamfang (talk) 23:13, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - No merit to this project having this here. Parrot of Doom 08:33, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep a notable phrase, multiple reliable sources are easily found.  Grue   09:03, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I can see that the title of "Said the actress to the bishop" should be moved to this more-modern version, popular in both the U.K. and the U.S. (and presumably other places where the UK version of The Office is shown), rather than a quaint Victorian expression that nobody uses anymore. That would be an m-word (yeah, I know AfD is not for merger, gather around the talk page, etc etc) Mandsford 16:49, 27 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Delete - Only claim to notability is that it was a line in Wayne's World, and that's not enough. Bigvernie (talk) 19:16, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The one half-decent reference was already moved to Said the actress to the bishop. Possibly we can find a use for this washingtonpost article? Or page 111 of this book? Or this video comedy piece? or this other huffingtonpost article? Hence the call for merge&redirect... :) -- Quiddity (talk) 21:08, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete and turn it into a soft redirect to Wiktionary, where people can add usages to their heart's content. The phrase has not been discussed in any detail in any sources I can find. Fences  &amp;  Windows  21:52, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep. Passes notability with multiple references available. This is a distinct topic from the Actress and the Bishop and more specific than double entendre. Andrew Keenan Richardson 22:25, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment We have to come to some sort of consensus here - previously it was deleted unanimously ("I don't believe usage in a TV show justifies having an article about this form of joke."); right now even with the mentioned sources (almost all of which don't actually directly discuss it, even the WP article mentioned above) it's barely going to be more then a dictionary defition; its already on en-wiktionary. If that's the case it needs to be merged or redirected into something more appropriate; if an actual SOURCED encyclopedia article (not with OR) can be made out of it that can get past WP:NOT a dictionary then it should be kept. Ryan Norton 02:05, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep, notability established by sources. Everyking (talk) 04:54, 31 July 2010 (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.