Talk:The Curse of Scotland
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Wikipedia is surely not a repository for individual jokes by individual comedians[edit]
The article contained the text:
- This term was also used by stand-up comedian Colin Quinn on his comedy central program Tough Crowd as a reference to the "extremly small size" of Scottish men’s genitals.
I removed it and provided the summary Wikipedia is surely not a repository for individual jokes by individual comedians. I notice that it has been reinserted. Is this really worthy of an encyclopedia? bobblewik 07:28, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
- I don't see it worth keeping. Nobody coming here and typing "curse of scotland" into the search box is doing it because of a single joke by a moderately famous comedian. It's not a famous joke, either, as a Google search for "curse of scotland" colin quinn turns up only this page. - dharmabum 00:53, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Expand, merge or redirect[edit]
This page is a mere dictionary definition (something which Wikipedia is not). It explains the meaning of a slang phrase and has several unconfirmed hypotheses of etymology. Nothing here rises past what I would expect to read in a truly great unabridged dictionary. The definitions and usage discussions belong over in Wiktionary where folks with the right skills, interests and lexical tools can more easily sort out the meanings and origins.
Options to fix the page here include:
- Expand the page with encyclopedic content - that is, content that goes well beyond the merely lexical.
- Redirect the page to a more general page on the appropriate sub-genre of slang.
- Replace the current contents with a soft-redirect to Wiktionary (usually done using the {{wi}} template).
Pending a better answer, I'm implementing option 3 for now. Rossami (talk) 03:45, 19 March 2008 (UTC)