Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Reacharound
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The result of the debate was transwiki. The consensus was to delete but also transwiki. The page is being kept until the transwiki is complete. -- AllyUnion (talk) 12:48, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Reacharound[edit]
Dicdef. Besides, searching at google I couldn't find anyone actually using the word, so it is probably a neologism too. Thue | talk 08:33, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- I think it should be left alone. If it were written in a profane manner then I would say delete it, but it is written intelligently, though short. If it were expanded upon it would be a valid article. Yalbik | 08:42, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Comment: which of these votes is the valid one? Capitalistroadster 09:51, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Dicdef, doesn't google, delete. Radiant! 09:45, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
- Keep, appears to be a real term: I found it used to describe a soccer player [1] when I was googling. Kappa 10:10, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Delete, slang neologism. Megan1967 10:37, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Delete: It is a real term, but this is just a dictionary definition (dicdef). Not encyclopedic because you really can't say anymore about it (i.e. no possiblility of being expanded upon). Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary (also "Wikipedia is not a slang or idiom guide") -- Serge Dupouy 11:03, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- It could be expanded to include infamous cases of "reacharound" fouls in sport, I think there was one with Paul Gascoigne that made the news. The sexual technique might be expanded with some recommendations by sex experts, or some quotes about how the performers feel. Also it seems to be used as an analogy, e.g. "that country gave our country the reacharound". Kappa 11:19, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Someone's been watching the Daily Show -- Jon Stewart did a whole riff on the subject on Wednesday night (i think it was). Or perhaps they saw Full Metal Jacket, with the magificent line, "I'll bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddam common courtesy to give him a reach-around." Delete, unexpandable. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 17:34, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. Dickdef. -R. fiend 18:58, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Actually, if you put "reach-around sex" into Google, you do get lots of relevant hits. Having said that, unlike Donkey punch which is currently on VfD, I can't really see any way of expanding this beyond a dicdef. So, unless anyone can make an encyclopedic entry out of it, delete HowardB 19:03, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Move to wiktionary. It is not a neologism. RickK 00:47, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
- keep Yuckfoo 04:16, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. Mere definition. Rossami (talk) 08:24, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Wiktionary is the proper fate for dictdefs. —Korath (Talk) 17:23, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)
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