Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Splaining

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The result was soft delete‎. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗plicit 05:30, 15 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Splaining

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Per WP:PARTIAL and not enough individual articles to disambiguate. Someone looking for words made up from "-splain" will look for them in Wiktionary and other dictionaries. –Vipz (talk) 04:57, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Discrimination-related deletion discussions. –Vipz (talk) 04:57, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 08:47, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete WP:NOTDICT. The word "splaining" originated as running dialog joke on the TV show I Love Lucy, but certainly does not need an article of its own. The joke hinges on Ricky Ricardo's use of the English language. Ricky would say something along the lines of, "....let me 'splain" and Lucy would reply, "OK ... 'splain". Or Ricky would say, "Lucy, you better 'splain yourself..." Other than that show, I've not seen or heard anyone else use that word. I have heard "mansplaining" used as a joke on TV, but its roots go back to I Love Lucy. Whitesplaining is a link to Wikiisource, and I have never heard that word used anywhere. — Maile (talk) 15:00, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.