Let's just delete articles we don't like. It would simplify the wikilawyering.
On 5/25/11, Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- On Wed, 25/5/11, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> wrote: >> From: Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> > >> I don't want to get that clever, to the point that we take >> into account >> that even talking about the article on this list might >> affect ranking. >> What is needed is to improve the article; it is about a >> political act, >> not about lube. > > > If it's about the political act, it should be covered under [[Santorum > controversy regarding homosexuality]]. > > Linguistically -- the term has been included in one dictionary, and in one > book on neologisms. Some erotic books have used it (and we have gleefully > included full quotes from each in the article's references: > > "She wads up the t-shirt, uses it to wipe a trickle of santorum from her > ass, and throws it under the cot." > > "Mark fucked his wife with slow, sure strokes that seemed to the panting > Valerie to penetrate her more deeply than ever before. At each descent of > the pouncing big prick into her sanctum santorum, Valerie thrust upward with > all her strength until the velvety surfaces of her rotund naked buttocks > swung clear of the bed" > > "Then, one of them broke ranks and rammed his blood-lubed fist straight up > my ass and twisted hard, pulled it out and licked the santorum clean.") > > Is that enough for linguistic notability? Perhaps enough for a Wiktionary > entry, but a whole article, on bona-fide *linguistic*, encyclopedic grounds? > > As for the template use: > > Including the term in *both* the sexual slang template and the political > neologisms template, both custom-created for the occasion, seems a stretch > to me. > > It is not a "political neologism", rightfully listed along with terms like > > Adopt a Highway • Afrocentrism • "And" theory of conservatism • Big > government • Chairman • Checkbook diplomacy • Children's interests • > Collaborationism • Conviction politics • Cordon sanitaire • Cricket test • > Democide • Dhimmitude • Eco-terrorism • Epistemocracy • Eurocentrism • > Eurorealism • Euroscepticism • Eurosphere • Failed state • etc. > > in a 100-term template, causing it to appear in all of those articles. > > Listing it in the sexual slang template, based on less than a dozen > appearances in print as an actual word -- as opposed to reporting about > Dan Savage's campaign -- is a closer call, but still debatable. > > I don't like Santorum either, and sorry to be a spoil-sport, but it's > unworthy of Wikipedia. > > Andreas > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
