[Wikipedia-l] RE: F***

Tue Sep 24 08:04:35 UTC 2002

Toby Bartels wrote:

>Ed Poor wrote:
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>>I know I'll get in trouble for this, but in the spirit of "be bold" I
>>deleted the [[Fuck]] article. It just seemed pointless to have an
>>article called f***.
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>You're supposed to be bold about *updating* articles, not *deleting* them!!!
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>>If someone wants to write an article on obscenity or censorship, and
>>treat the problems the term f*** has had, fine. But I don't want to see
>>every dirty word (or word that's gotten the dirty end of the stick) have
>>its own article.
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>That may well be true.
>So did you copy the information on [[Fuck]] to [[Obscenity]]
>and then make [[Fuck]] a redirect to [[Obscenity]]?
>Or did you just delete the information?
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>(Here I am assuming that [[Fuck]] did actually have information on it,
>and wasn't one of the "microstubs" that another thread is going on about.)
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>-- Toby
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I agree. Link all the random obscenities to a single "obscenity" 
article, which gives the whole subject a thorough treatment... and that 
includes etymology, history and usage of the commonest / most vulgar as 
in the [[Fuck]] article.

Neil