Talk:Slick Willy

RfD 2005

From WP:RfD:

• Slick Willy ---> Bill Clinton. See above. Meelar (talk) 23:19, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
  • While I do appreciate your political evenhandedness on these matters, I don't think deletion is really viable. Wikipedia:Redirects states: "redirecting Dubya to George W. Bush might be considered offensive, but the redirect aids accidental linking, makes the creation of duplicate articles less likely, and is useful to some people, so it should not be deleted." Searching for Dumbya returns thousands of Google hits, so why should it be removed? I would have no objection if this (and other nicknames) redirected to a page stating that these are derogatory nicknames. They don't have to direct to the main article, but they should not return empty search results. By the way, Butcher of Baghdad redirects to Saddam Hussein. No doubt he deserves that epithet, but under NPOV that can't be a consideration. And surely it cannot be Wikipedia policy that only derogatory nicknames for U.S. Presidents may not be redirected. Logically, if Dumbya and Slick Willy are removed, hundreds, possibly thousands, of redirects someone finds offensive to other names must be removed as well. We'd best not start down this slippery slope. 63.173.114.137 23:41, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • I agree on this. The politicians themselves will sometimes buy urls (e.g. bushblows.com, bushsucks.com, etc.) during campaigns and redirect them to their campaign site, to prevent others from buying them. (No, those websites are not currently redirects.) Rad Racer | Talk 01:34, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep If a user might type it in for any reason it is useful for the redirect to point to an NPOV article. SchmuckyTheCat 03:22, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Since this one is a really well known nickname, I'd be worried that if we deleted it, someone would just recreate an article there (e.g. "well-known nickname for Bill Clinton, popularized by the columnist Paul Greenberg"). I'd be OK with getting rid of it, though, if that's what everyone wants. Noel (talk) 14:18, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. It's a well-known nickname. --Carnildo 23:27, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep but redirect to List of U.S. Presidential nicknames as per WP:AN/I. --Michael Snow 00:22, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep -- Toytoy 01:20, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, but change redirect to List of U.S. Presidential nicknames, per Michael Snow. --BM 02:10, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Maurreen 06:51, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. Although I think the current administration is about as corrupt and "slick" as you can get. — Stevie is the man! ^{Talk | Work} 16:21, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep as redirect to List of U.S. Presidential nicknames. older≠wiser 01:36, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, encyclopedic. Leave the location it points to as a matter of editorial discretion. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 07:31, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: Same as previous.Aliter 16:46, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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