Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tongue bifurcation

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The result was Withdrawn by nominator. Please link/merge/split/etc as necessary. --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 14:59, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tongue bifurcation

del nonnotable. A surgery made by a certain freak. No reputable sources that actually describe it. Only blogs, forums and personal pages. A lot of original research. `'mikkanarxi 16:36, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

• withdrawn in favor of tongue splitting. Tongue splitting gives 28,000 google hits, while "tongue bifurcation -wikipedia" only 633. No wonder I thought this is a fantasy of OR. `'mikkanarxi 17:46, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete OR, and merge what remains of the article with Body modification. StoptheDatabaseState 17:06, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect to Tongue splitting as it seems to be the more common name. Googling "tongue splitting" turns up this article on the Illinois legislature's attempt to ban the procedure and this story from CBS News which seem sufficient to establish notability. Otto4711 17:10, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

• Oops, didn't realize "tongue splitting" redirects to this article. The main text should be under tongue splitting and tongue bifurcation should be the redirect IMHO. Otto4711 17:11, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

• The notable part of this article appears to be its use as punishment in the Byzantine Empire. I have my doubts as to whether it's done these days, though I'm sure someone at BME (website) has tried it. I don't want to see pictures, though. --Elkman - (Elkspeak) 17:20, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

comment OK, seeing "tongue splitting", I am going to withdraw my nomination in favor of moving the article under a far more common title, which can be done without much voting. `'mikkanarxi 17:46, 11 December 2006 (UTC) comment: I remember it being mentioned along with a whole zwack of other controversial body modification procedures on some expose show (dateline I think) but I'm not in a position to say if that makes it notable or not. Wintermut3 03:23, 12 December 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.