Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Black Excellence

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was delete. Consensus is for deletion. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:14, 21 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Black Excellence[edit]

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New term discovered by the article creator, A11 declined. Using full AfD to knock it down instead of ineffective PROD which can be contested by anybody –Ammarpad (talk) 16:18, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete WP:NOTDICT – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 16:36, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. This isn't even a dicdef, because it doesn't define the term! This is very close to qualifying for an A3 speedy, as the only content is, fundamentally, an acknowledgement that the title is itself a phrase someone has used somewhere. Squeamish Ossifrage (talk) 17:08, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. "Floppy disk is a term commonly used by computer scientists" "Tent peg is a term commonly used by campers" "AfD is a term commonly used by Wikipedians" Alexis Jazz (talk) 22:02, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Alexis Jazz: Excellent. Thank you buddy. –Ammarpad (talk) 01:40, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 02:28, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Irredeemable, should've been speedied. Elassint ^Hi 19:28, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Not even an adequate Wiktionary definition. Robert McClenon (talk) 23:51, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Since this article is entirely unsourced, I not only will state it is not up to a dictionary definition, but it is just plain false. For the last four and a half years I have worked at schools where the student body was over 97% African-American. My fiancee is African-American. I studied at Wayne State University in the heart of Detroit and did my best to transcend the Metro-Detroit color line while a student there. I have traveled most bus routes in Detroit, the five most used ones heavily. I have never heard someone use the term "black excelence", never came across it in any course I took on African-American or African history, and my soon-to-be step daughter who took a course on "the black strugle" never used the term. Black girls rock, Black pride, black is beautful and so on have more merit. There may well be people who "commonly" use this term, but I chalenge the notion it is a common term "in the African-American community". Of course I have had coworkers who showed students TV segements that perpetuated the discredited idea that the term "The Real McCoy" connected to the work of Elijah McCoy, and I indepdently came up with the idea to teach my Pre-K children to sing the song "Old McCoy had a grage", my early childhood supervisor thought that was the best idea ever when I told her about it. I don't think it actually worked when I implmented it, because children living in the north-west region of Detroit where most residences are detached houses with detached garages, and the next most common residence is duplexes with detached garages, think of the garage as where you keep the car, or where you would keep the car if your dad/granddad/uncle didnt have the lawn mower, some tools he says he will use to fix the car by the side of the house but never does, and the TV to watch sports plus an extra fridge. They do not think of a garage as a place to fix cars, as I sometimes use it to refer to commercial car repair places. I know this because when they built a garage with blocks they would put the TV in the garage, talk of watching TV in the garage, etc. My main points is that some claims get bounced around with no evidence, and I could write an article Northwest Detroit youths concepts of what a garage is and what its uses are that would come closer to being encyclopedic than this article does.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:42, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- On a slightly different note our article on Automobile repair shop is lacking in historical context, essentially seems to ignore that cars are used in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Oceania, and not just the US and Europe, and in general is a prime example of how Wikipedia is US/Europe centric and horribly neglectful of coverage of everything related to Africa.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:47, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom DocumentError (talk) 06:38, 20 April 2018 (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.