--- On Wed, 25/5/11, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> wrote: > From: Fred Bauder <fredb...@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 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
