Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Spokane nicknames

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The result of the debate was delete. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 14:31, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of Spokane nicknames[edit]

An uncited and probably unverifiable mess of a useless list stub. Spokane, Washington is no Big Apple, though it is apparently refered to as "Spocannabis" and "Little Africa" ˉˉ^anetode╞┬╡ 06:46, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete two thinks stand out especially for me: (1) Uncited and (2) Useless. CanadianCaesar Cæsar is turn’d to hear 06:57, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom; also probably fails WP:NOR and certainly fails WP:BALLS. RGTraynor 07:39, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom and above. VegaDark 07:57, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete -- unverifiable. - Longhair 07:58, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as unverifiable. JIP | Talk 09:23, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. New article to me. Don't see how it fails WP:BALLS. Spokane is the second largest city in Washington State and the largest city on the BNSF(110+ trains per day)/I-90 corridor between Seattle and Minneapolis. I have lived here for only three years and I have heard 2/3 of the perjoratives used in the article (hadn't heard "Spocannabis" and "Little Africa" tho) and have heard all of the traditional and commercial variants. These get mentioned in [| Doug Clark's columns] in the local Spokesman Review. So I think the WP:NOR is not insurmountable. An aside, I've heard Spokane named 2X in gansta-rap lyrics in the context of percieved overreaching by the police-powers (popo) - Spokane is no Big Apple but it has some big city problems. -- Paleorthid 18:34, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and merge whatever is verifiable back into Spokane, Washington. Pointless fork from Spokane, Washington that should have stayed part of the main article. KleenupKrew 23:02, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Paleorthid. --JJay 01:42, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. No reason for this to have its own article. Many cities have numerous nicknames and they sit just fine on those city's articles. Peyna 03:02, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep (or delete, but don't merge). I am the one who split this article off from Spokane. While in that article it received more edits than the rest of the article, with each addition more imaginitive than the last. I have never seen another city article with nearly so many nicknames. It was getting ridiculous and after discussion on the talk page I split it out. It is not a POV fork (which is an article that covers the same material as another article but from a different POV). Ever since the split it has been serenely quiet. I was content to see it deleted as unverifiable, but now that Paleorthid is sourcing it I think it is worth keeping. But please don't merge it back to Spokane. -Will Beback 09:21, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Typical addition:[1] -Will Beback 23:05, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment If this is kept, it should probably be renamed to List of Spokane, Washington nicknames. I still feel this page doesn't have enough encyclopedic value so my vote stands as delete, even with proper sources. VegaDark 20:58, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per User:CanadianCaesar and User:RGTraynor. Angus McLellan (Talk) 22:48, 5 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.