Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Slit eye

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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 00:06, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Slit eye[edit]

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Contested prod. Not much here aside from a WP:DICDEF. Sources are in German and much of this seems to be original research. Gobonobo ^T ^C 07:44, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:NOTDICTIONARY. Armbrust ^Talk _Contribs 11:11, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Germany-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:31, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:31, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete another racially pejorative article created by a banned editor with a history of dubious editing. RolandR (talk) 20:13, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - per WP:NOTDIC. If reliable sources can be found, put it on Wiktionary. Claritas § 20:29, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete again, we aren't a dictionary. Dougweller (talk) 20:45, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Simply a dictionary entry with no hope of expansion. p.s. We already have Anti-Japanese sentiment. Fences&Windows 23:54, 10 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. "because Asians are successful business people" -- amusing to have a racist definition for a racist epithet. Bigdaddy1981 (talk) 00:46, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - None of the reasons given above is a reason for deletion. "Sources are in German" is irrelevant, we welcome sources in any language. It is not a simple DICDEF, a sentence like this It emerged in popular German language usage in the 1950s and 1960s during the wave of immigration of socialist Vietnamese to socialist East Germany. (if sourced) is encyclopedic and not reasonable on a dictionary. That is "racially pejorative" is nonsense, the article documents a racist epithet but is not a racist article. "No hope of expansion" (apart again not being a reason to delete) is unproven -can be elaborated why?- and the term is not limited to Japanese people. Also, the term is mentioned to be used also by non-Germans in the same context (here it gives the name to a movie) also mentioned in books [1] , [2] , [3] , [4]. All of these are mentions, but document that an interest and discussion of the term exists. Here, here news articles dedicated to a notable related incident. --Cyclopia^talk 12:47, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment. Note that the sources currently cited in the article use the term Schlitzauge, they do not discuss it (see Use–mention distinction). Cyclopia's proposed sources do mention the term, but mainly in passing. The latter two news sources discuss a gesture, not the terms Schlitzauge or slit-eye. Cnilep (talk) 16:15, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Dictionary definition of racist slang. Carrite (talk) 16:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - Dictionary definition; not for Wikipedia. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:57, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Hardly encyclopedic. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 17:59, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. Dewritech (talk) 21:00, 14 July 2010 (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.