Talk:Internet slang

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Internet slang article.
Please sign and date your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~). Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic. New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Ask questions, get answers. This is not a forum for general discussion about the article's subject.	Be polite Assume good faith No personal attacks Be welcoming	Article policies No original research Neutral point of view Verifiability

This page has been cited as a source by a media organization. The citation is in: "[N/A Get the FAQ on Internet chat slang.]", Calgary Sun, August 8, 2004. (details)

	Internet Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Internet culture, an attempt to better organise information in articles related to the Internet culture. For more information, visit the project page.
Start	This article has been rated as Start-class on the quality scale.
High	This article has been rated as high-importance on the importance scale.

Archives

Archive 1 Archive 2

Contents 1 Where's the List of Internet Slang?! 2 Vandalism 3 Organization (of the list) 4 HAWT 5 Removal of list of commonly used slang 6 All caps...appropriate? 7 Any way we can get closer to the older versions? 8 No List..... Period.

[edit] Where's the List of Internet Slang?!

I remember a list some time ago, but when I searched for it, it said it was moved to wikitionary, but there's no article there. Does ANYONE know what happened to it?? Abcw12 (talk) 04:41, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

It's at wikt:Appendix:Internet slang, you can also click the Wiktionary link in the box at the top right of the article to go there. PaleAqua 10:12, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

OK, why was this bumped off to wiktionary? There was no need for that. Modest Genius ^talk 23:13, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

The request for deletion was at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Internet slang phrases (3rd nomination). The result was transwikify and delete. I still think that a few of the more commonly used and properly sourced entries should have been merged into this article as a mini glossary. PaleAqua (talk) 10:09, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

See Wikipedia is not a manual or a how-to guide to answer any further questions. нмŵוτнτ 18:55, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh, there it is. I'm gonna look at that discussion, because it's still a LIST of things in my opinion. P.S. That article wasn't there when I wrote this question. Abcw12 (talk) 04:41, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about archiving this.... --Talk to Stealth500 (talk) 13:17, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

I was just thinking it might be a good idea to lock this to all outsiders who are not members, in the past few days theres been a whole bunch of vandalism, and it's not helping this article at all. Opinions? --Talk to Stealth500 (talk) 12:26, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I just cleanup a load of **** and am still considering CSMF ?? (Think it needs deleting). Yes, Request Page Protection. Triwbe (talk) 21:20, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

How do I do that? --Talk to Stealth500 (talk) 03:11, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Organization (of the list)

so, I was was wondering if it would be ok with everyone to remake the list of common terms and make it so it is in Alphabetical order, if not would it be ok to have it done so that they are in groups (for example gg (good Game) would also be with gl (Good Luck) since they would be used together. --Talk to Stealth500 (talk) 23:31, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

There should be not list, per Wikipedia guidelines (see WP:NOT#MANUAL). нмŵוτнτ 03:06, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] HAWT

Where is the page on horizontal axis wind turbine? HAWT? I search and it came here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.214.114.182 (talk • contribs)

HAWT currently has no page, it is hawt that redirects to here. -- MacAddct  1984 ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:21, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Removal of list of commonly used slang

I think this is a ridiculous decision, as there is no page on Wikipedia that covers this topic. There is one page in WIKTIONARY, but it is common knowledge that the general public mostly access WIKIPEDIA, and very few use Wiktionary. If you are trying to rob people of their easily accessible knowledge, then removing the list of slang is definitely the way to go rather than "Oh, well there's a page on wiktionary (which no one uses therefore will never find) so I guess I'll just remove this list and be a good boy robbing people of educational resources." You are taking 50% of the article out and also the most informative and practically useful part, as I think that the term 'Internet Slang' is pretty self explanitory and people would rather a list of words to use than a boring list explaining internet slang. Removing this list will more than likely turn people away to other sites such as UD etcetera. The City 06:12, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia isn't about getting more readership nor is it a dictionary, or a slang, jargon, or usage guide. UrbanDictionary is a great resource for that sort of information and I, for one, am more than happy for people to use it as a resource. Having it on Wikipedia, however, means that there is a lot of original research and it just gets out of hand regarding what should and shouldn't be on the list, like the older pages when there was one. -- MacAddct  1984 ^{(talk • contribs)} 16:18, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] All caps...appropriate?

I usually see it written that way.

Thanks for any help...

DarkestMoonlight (talk) 20:05, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

They're initialisms, so yes, it's appropriate. I've seen them written in lowercase too, but technically they should be uppercase (of course, we're applying formal written standards to forms of common usage that do not necessarily respect those standards...) — Gwalla | Talk 21:41, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Any way we can get closer to the older versions?

If you look back through the history of this article to say October (as recent as 161767791) of 2007 or earlier, this article appears to be much better. The biggest flaw back are pretty much the same as now lack of citations, original research, and some random definitions that aren't necessary to explain thrown in. Online slang (aka Internet slang) has been around a long time, much of it is not that much different then the slang I saw 25 years ago on old BBS and early networks. Okay some of the slang like re- meaning again, as in rehi or the shorter re has fallen by the way side. Much of it (lol, rofl, :), etc) is still around, surly there are sources out there.. PaleAqua (talk) 05:40, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] No List..... Period.

Look, this has been talked about REPEATEDLY and over and over it is added back. There should be no list, per Wikipedia guidelines (see WP:NOT#MANUAL) simple as that. Stealth (talk) 22:41, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Actually to be pedantic the one that applies more closely is WP:NOT#DICT. Though I slightly disagree; I think a short sample list of terms especially ones of significance or especially notable would be appropriate. PaleAqua (talk) 00:45, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I agree with that, but the second you have a tiny example paragraph with like 5 examples, people add more....and more.... and then we get to this last edit here. Now after I deleted it this new edit came, leave it for a while and there will be a list. It started as something that could be useful but most likely will be bad later (edit here. So does that make sense? Stealth (talk) 01:35, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

That may be true, but the article could use a few examples as illustration. You can always watchlist it for new changes. Beeblbrox (talk) 07:28, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Well thats actually already there "r" to mena "are" "u" to mean "you" etc. it's in one of the paragraphs.... Stealth (talk) 09:44, 15 April 2008 (UTC)Insert non-formatted text here

Looking at the examples that were deleted in the last big deletion ("LOL," etc), it seems that this article was just a bad version of the fairly good Leet article. Now, of course, this article is terrible, because it contains no information what-so-ever. Shouldn't this merge into Leet, Leet merge here, or at least this article turn into something that is actually useful, like the Leet article? &mdash Sam 18:02, 3 June 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.138.152.238 (talk)