Footballbat

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football bat

can you please give a reason why you nominate the phrase for deletion?

if so, please answer these other urban terms - just to make sure you know uban slang

What is "what it do nephew"

What is a "Strawberry"

What is a "Gat" and what does the derivition come from?

If you can answer these and you still move to delete - Ill respect your request. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Footballbat (talk • contribs) .

Hi, first of all, thanks for taking the time to actually ask instead of directly removing the tag. The problem is not that this term exists or not in slang (I really don't know slang at all, we don't learn that at school in my country ;)). The problem is that there is an official policy here called Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary which says that Wikipedia is not a hacker/computer usage or other slang and idiom guide. We aren't teaching people how to talk like a hacker or a Cockney chimney-sweep; we're writing an encyclopedia. So this article can't stay on Wikipedia. However, there is a Wiktionary project that would suit more in my opinion. Regards, -- lucasbfr ^talk 04:27, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

PS: do you know slang site?

I see the page was deleted unter G4, which means that this article was deleted previously. You shouldn't try to recreate deleted article :) For the discussion about the deletion, please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Footballbat -- lucasbfr ^talk 04:33, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the response. I am new here and now its becoming clearer what you guys are excepting.

I am a little disapointed though that a band like Shiny Toy Guns can post and advertise their band here - even with direct links to the site that sells their music, but one cant even post an urban phrase until its seen on a movie - which makes the phrase non-urban at that point

Example would be shizzle - it is listed on your site, and it is urban slang - but for some reason because Snoop dogg quotes it - it now becomes official

I will check out the other site - but disagree with this word being pulled

By the way, mark my words - this phrase will become public mainstream within 2 years, and you will remember that I was the one who tried to post it here first

Word —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Footballbat (talk • contribs) .

Sorry for the harsh welcome ;) I added some basic links at the top of your page in case you wanted to learn more about our rules. Again, the Wiktionary project might be worth a look. -- lucasbfr ^talk 04:39, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Oh by the way, just to explain a bit: we delete a lot of music group pages each day. To be included, you need to meet the WP:MUSIC criterias. About the -izzle page, I must admit that I am a bit puzzled. That kind of article is really borderline. -- lucasbfr ^talk 05:03, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Neologisms

Please see WP:NEO. The deletion has nothing to do with bias against "street culture". It's just that this is an encyclopedia, and every random slang term someone makes up is not appropriate for inclusion. (|-- UlTiMuS 06:22, 15 October 2006 (UTC)