Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nerk

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 delete - Liberatore(T) 18:53, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nerk

Fuhghettaboutit originally tagged it for PROD, but I think it should be kept. A Google Test result of 104,000 Googles seems notable to me. King of Hearts | (talk) 02:15, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

• Weak keep. Royboycrashfan 02:18, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
• Transwiki to Wiktionary and delete. User:Zoe|^(talk) 02:53, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete... just delete. --CrypticBacon 03:25, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, no transwiki. non-notable unstable protoneologism -- I sincerely doubt more than a few of those Google hits relate to the term as described in this entry. — Adrian Lamo ·· 04:38, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete (or is it inappropriate for me to vote since I originally prodded?). In the event that it is not, my 2¢: Google results are actually very telling. After finding and excluding those things with a lot of hits that are obviously unrelated (fred nerk, newark, etc.) you'll find that nerk only returns 769 unique google hits [1], and none that I scanned bore any relationship with the word as defined in the article. While google is not the end-all, be-all notability test for many subjects, I think it is with respect to testing widespread dissemination of a word. --Fuhghettaboutit 05:21, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Comment: And thank you Adrian Lamo ·· for teaching me about unique google hits a few weeks ago. --Fuhghettaboutit 05:27, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete --Terence Ong 08:46, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and do not transwiki. Agree with Adrian and Fuhghettaboutit; this is a neologism -- Samir ∙ T C 09:16, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete WP is not a dictionary. This definition is incorrect as the word was first coined for use in Porridge (TV) in order for the programme to be shown on the BBC without including swearwords. Reference in programme article.  (aeropagitica)  14:00, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as nn neologism. dbtfz^talk 21:02, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as slang definition - and an incorrect one at that. Definitely not a neologism - as AP points out, it's been around since at least Porridge in the 1970s, and ISTR that the term was used in Polari before that, though I could be wrong. In any case the definition given on this page isn't correct. Grutness...wha? 01:56, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Grutness --Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 03:06, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
• Megre with appropiate list (whatever that might be). If not Delete -- Oarias 04:13, 11 March 2006 (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.