[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article on [[Santorum (neologism)]]

[Andreas Kolbe]

--- On Wed, 25/5/11, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
> From: Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>

> I don't want to get that clever, to the point that we take
> into account
> that even talking about the article on this list might
> affect ranking.
> What is needed is to improve the article; it is about a
> political act,
> not about lube.


If it's about the political act, it should be covered under [[Santorum 
controversy regarding homosexuality]].

Linguistically -- the term has been included in one dictionary, and in one
book on neologisms. Some erotic books have used it (and we have gleefully
included full quotes from each in the article's references:

"She wads up the t-shirt, uses it to wipe a trickle of santorum from her 
ass, and throws it under the cot."

"Mark fucked his wife with slow, sure strokes that seemed to the panting 
Valerie to penetrate her more deeply than ever before. At each descent of 
the pouncing big prick into her sanctum santorum, Valerie thrust upward with 
all her strength until the velvety surfaces of her rotund naked buttocks 
swung clear of the bed"

"Then, one of them broke ranks and rammed his blood-lubed fist straight up 
my ass and twisted hard, pulled it out and licked the santorum clean.")

Is that enough for linguistic notability? Perhaps enough for a Wiktionary
entry, but a whole article, on bona-fide *linguistic*, encyclopedic grounds?

As for the template use:

Including the term in *both* the sexual slang template and the political
neologisms template, both custom-created for the occasion, seems a stretch
to me.

It is not a "political neologism", rightfully listed along with terms like 

Adopt a Highway • Afrocentrism • "And" theory of conservatism • Big 
government • Chairman • Checkbook diplomacy • Children's interests • 
Collaborationism • Conviction politics • Cordon sanitaire • Cricket test • 
Democide • Dhimmitude • Eco-terrorism • Epistemocracy • Eurocentrism • 
Eurorealism • Euroscepticism • Eurosphere • Failed state • etc.

in a 100-term template, causing it to appear in all of those articles. 

Listing it in the sexual slang template, based on less than a dozen 
appearances in print as an actual word -- as opposed to reporting about
Dan Savage's campaign -- is a closer call, but still debatable.

I don't like Santorum either, and sorry to be a spoil-sport, but it's 
unworthy of Wikipedia.

Andreas