Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bollocks (2nd nomination)

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The result was keep. SoWhy 06:55, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Bollocks

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The majority of this article is composed of Dictionary definitions - and

Wikipedia is not a dictionary
. I recommend the majority of the definitions which are valid and referenced are ported to Wikictionary, those which are clearly taken from the
urban dictionary
can be discarded. Aspects of the article talk about the law of profanity, censorship cases and a
sex pistols
album. These sections could be merged with the relevant main articles. I suggest the page is maintained as a redirect to either
testicles, or maintained as a disambiguation page. Dysklyver 12:25, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply
]

Um ok, but do we really need an article listing every way to use 'Bollocks' in a sentence? I realize we have articles on
WP:DICTDEF a policy?. Dysklyver 12:45, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply
]
  • Comment. We could probably manage with a redirect of Bollocks to Testicle, with a hatnote at the latter stating that Bollocks redirects here, with a link to nonsense as the other usage. I'm not convinced an etymology, definitions of every term that includes the work 'Bollocks', and tangential stuff about the Sex Pistols album makes an encyclopedia article - it's wiktionary material and stuff that's covered elsewhere. It's all bollocks, but it is encyclopedic? --Michig (talk) 14:23, 8 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Much of the article is rubbish (I was going to use the article title but an edit filter stopped me), being a collection of examples of the use of this word rather than any encyclopedic description. There might be some useful content in this paper, and I found this letter (the link only seems to work if you come from Google Scholar, for example here) interesting, but useless for our purposes. 86.17.222.157 (talk) 12:35, 9 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I presume that IP's using the 'bollocks' word is prohibited by an anti-vandal measure (I note your comments on the talk page). My point really is that the main 'topic' which the word is used to describe is Testicle, and any other usage / lists of usage is running into being a dictionary definition. the encyclopaedic topic of profanity (usage of any word, including this word, in a derogatory sense) is covered at Profanity. so really I can't see anything that can be made out of this as a standalone article. Dysklyver 13:30, 9 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that (your first sentence) seems to be the case. I'm perfectly happy to forgo the privilege of using "naughty words", even if they are perfectly justified by the context. I would say that this word, at least here in Britain, is far more often used to mean "nonsense" than "testicles", even though the latter is the original meaning, so I don't think that testicle would be a good redirect target. And the use of this word to mean "nonsense", again here in the UK, is pretty routine, and only very mildly profane: nothing like as bad as most of the other taboo words that you list above. 86.17.222.157 (talk) 19:12, 9 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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