Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shwag

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 smoke. east.718 at 00:19, December 23, 2007

[edit] Shwag

Where I come from, "shwag" is just another word for swag, or giveaway items used for promotions. I'm unfamiliar with this definition, and it seems that everyone who has read the Wikipedia article since February 2007 is similarly bemused. Coccyx Bloccyx (talk) 21:11, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

• Delete as the initiator of this request, the term is not verifiable by encyclopedia standards. Coccyx Bloccyx (talk) 21:11, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - as per WP:NEO as not verified. Sting_au Talk 21:21, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Relatively new term - only used in assoc with marijuana for about 40 years. Google turns up 40k hits when searched for with marijuana. Probably should be spelled with a c in front of the h. Mykej (talk) 21:32, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
  • The newness of a term is not a factor, WP:V using reliable third party sources is. Coccyx Bloccyx (talk) 21:43, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
  • High Times Magazine price lists use the term(although with the c added as noted above). [[1]]. They're about as authoritative as it gets for MJ. Mykej (talk) 21:51, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Personally I think that leaves us with little more than a dictionary definition but I am interested to see what others may think. Coccyx Bloccyx (talk) 22:25, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
• I think that we need a section in the naming conventions saying that "common names" doesn't mean slang names. Looking in the The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (ISBN 041525938X) and The A-Z Encyclopedia of Alcohol and Drug Abuse (ISBN 158112404X), that's all that this is: another word for low-quality marijuana, nothing more. We already have articles covering the quality of marijuana. They are cannabis (drug) and cannabis (drug) cultivation. Wikipedia is not a dictionary of slang. Uncle G (talk) 01:22, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
• Delete A dictionary definition, lacking references. Edison (talk) 01:34, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
• Delete per nom, just another dictionary definition and WP:NOT a slang dictionary. RFerreira (talk) 05:45, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
• Delete as a term it is not WP:N. Gtstricky^{Talk or C} 17:57, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
• Delete, article fails to be much more than a dictionary definition. (jarbarf) (talk) 00:12, 23 December 2007 (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.