Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Term for gay in different languages

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The result of the debate was keep. I encourage anyone who would like it to be renamed to be bold and rename it. · Katefan0^(scribble) 20:59, 13 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Badly titled, with little information. Non-expandable, not very useful. Exploding Boy 05:00, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

• Merge with Gay. Axon (talk|contribs) 11:43, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge with Sexual slurs or Keep, provided the title is changed to something more clear. Ryan 11:53, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, but rename as "International slang terms for gay" or something like that. (Note: I can see this list as becoming HUGE, so there probably should be some work on the formatting as well to condense it down.) 2nd choice is merge with Sexual slurs. BlankVerse ∅ 12:57, 1 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. I don't usually like lists, as they are very rarely helpful, but this one seems like it could be a useful reference. Keep, but consider (on the talk page) a new name. -- Essjay · Talk 05:50, August 3, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and rename, as User:BlankVerse] suggestest. Second choice, like BV, is to merge with sexual slurs. — OwenBlacker 20:41, August 12, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and rename - Blank's idea is good. --Romeo Bravo ^=/\= 21:50, 13 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep and rename, and remove stereotypical concepts. Originally I created this list as an anonymous user, and I intended it to be (or: I deemed it most useful as) a collection of interesting terms which are in and of itself completely unrelated to gayness, like "light blue" in Russian and "warm" in Hungarian. I don't welcome the different variants of "effeminate gay male" and "sodomite" etc. here (unless they have a really special history, like Hungarian buzi from Bogomil heretics), since they only reflect common stereotypes. The goal of this list was to collect interesting, unusual, unexpected terms, not commonplaces (especially not abusive ones). – If you agree, this idea could be made explicit in a brief and concise note at the beginning of the article and the irrelevant terms could be removed. That's what could differentiate this list from sexual slurs, and that's why they should not be merged, in my opinion. -- ClosetedOne 00:53, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment strangely seems never to have been listed on afd/vfd - listing now (no vote) --Doc (?) 16:38, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment: Isn't this what Wiktionary is for? Otherwise rename to List of international slang terms for gay or List of sexual slurs. - Mgm|^(talk) 19:08, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, interesting, provides useful context to other articles. Christopher Parham (talk) 04:31, 2005 September 6 (UTC)
• Keep as per BlankVerse. —RaD Man (talk) 02:16, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.