Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flip (slang)

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The result was delete. WP:DICDEF - a redirect may be appropriate, but the strongest arguments appeart towards deletion (✉→BWilkins←✎) 12:02, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Flip (slang)[edit]

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Dicdef, sources don't support the term or any other content. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 03:37, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - Certainly doesn't seem to be notable enough to have its own article. Likely a case of undue weight. At the very best, only worth a brief mention in Filipino American, but nothing more, if that. Red Phoenix ^{build the future...}^{remember the past...} 16:04, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 21:37, 22 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merge or redirect to Pinoy, which is essentially the same, both being slang and somewhat derogatory. FWIW, my boyfriend is Filipino-American. Bearian (talk) 20:34, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Just a clarification: here in the Philippines, Pinoy isn't considered derogatory and in fact, most Filipinos are proud to be called "Pinoys" and don't think of it as pejorative. It can be considered a term of endearment, unlike say "Yank" or "Seppo". Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 07:41, 31 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Philippines-related deletion discussions. czar · · 16:21, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States-related deletion discussions. czar · · 16:22, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, czar · · 16:22, 30 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I am a Filipino, and I can say that the term is virtually unheard of, at least in the Philippines, and I've never heard any of my relatives living in America use it (in fact, I've only heard of "Flip" used in this sense because of this AfD). It's not used by local media either, and worst of all, it's not mentioned in a lot of (if any) reliable sources. It could be mentioned in the Filipino American article, but since the term is quite obscure (at least in my opinion), at most a very brief (maybe one line) mention would be enough. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 07:41, 31 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep or Redirect to Filipino American. This might be systematic bias of available internet searchable sources, but if one were to look up "Flip" slang Filipino one would find multiple academic journal entries, and a number of book entries (some dictionary definitions, others a little more in-depth). Now I understand that some of the arguments are based on WP:NOTDICTIONARY, but it maybe possible to cobble something more than a stub entry based on the sources I found to write a history of the word, and its then its present usage in the United States (and possibly elsewhere). Otherwise as the majority of internet searchable sources are from the United States, and thus my systematic bias statement earlier, the article can be turned into a redirect to Filipino American as an alternative name of the subject.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 09:44, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(What did I screw up now?)} 00:42, 11 June 2013 (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.