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

[The Cunctator]

Let's just delete articles we don't like. It would simplify the wikilawyering.

On 5/25/11, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- 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
>
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