Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 October 12#Developed
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==Dipwad==
:The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more redirects. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the redirect's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
:The result of the discussion was no consensus
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Not mentioned in target. Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 15:04, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Deletethis is apparently an Australian-English pejorative, but it isn't mentioned anywhere on en.wp. Thryduulf (talk) 21:29, 27 September 2020 (UTC)- Soft redirect per OcelotCreeper below. Thryduulf (talk) 15:11, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
- Delete - Also used in American English, it doesn't always have a single set definition. Deletion is probably best. Hog Farm Bacon 21:56, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
- Soft redirect to wiktionary, which has a definition for dipwad. OcelotCreeper (talk) 23:05, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BDD (talk) 21:19, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
- Keep and create new section. This is the second such recent redirect request I can recall - an alternative name for idiot. So I looked up to see if there are others: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Idiot&hidetrans=1&hidelinks=1] - so we have Dunder head, Dimwit, Dolt, etc. And we have individual Wikitionary definitions for these terms: [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dimwit dimwit], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dolt dolt], [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dunderhead dunderhead], so they are legitimate alternative names. If we have a Wikipedia article for the concept of being stupid, then per WP:OTHERNAMES we should redirect alternative titles to the article we have on the concept, and where appropriate create a section on the alternative names. These are reasonable alternative names, and we can add more, such as fool, oaf, retard, bonehead, etc, to make consistent the random manner in which we currently treat these terms. At the moment we either create redirects, or articles: Retard (pejorative), or disamb pages in which we briefly define the main usage Bonehead which may not be the usage the reader is looking for, or disamb pages in which the term is not explained directly, but in which links to other articles may randomly take the reader to a page which may give some understanding of what it is they are looking for Oaf→Changeling and Fool→Foolishness/Stupidity. Finding Stupidity, I'm now thinking that we should in fact be redirecting Idiot to Stupidity and merging the content. So, Dipwad, and all the other terms relating to stupidity, should redirect to Stupidity and a section created there to discuss the various alternative names. As I have proposed this, I would be prepared to do the work if there is consensus. SilkTork (talk) 10:41, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
- Keep: It's a valid pejorative. If it's not mentioned in Idiot, then that should be remedied along with adding all the other pejoratives SilkTork mentioned, plus Eejit, Cooyon, Dunderhead, and Addlehead which were all nominated around the same time. Normal Op (talk) 17:58, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Seventyfiveyears (talk) 23:51, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
- Delete or soft redirect per WP:NOTDIC, Wikipedia's stupidity article does not need an Urban Dictionary section listing a bunch of random terms of abuse for stupid people. Note e.g. how the obesity article does not mention lardball, fatass, landwhale, etc. 59.149.124.29 (talk) 16:34, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
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