Wiki143:Articles for deletion/Frob

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result of the debate was keep (no consensus). Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:09, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Frob

Neologism, dicdef. → Ξxtreme Unction {yak yak yak ł blah blah blah} 20:54, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. PJM 21:10, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Hardly a neologism, since it originated in the 1950s. As one of the oldest bits of "hacker jargon", this term occupies a place of honor in the Jargon File, and it has encyclopaedic potential. Anville 22:00, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment Agree with the content of Anville's comment. Not completely sure whether it deserves its own article. BTW Frob is used in mathematics for "the conjugacy class of Frobenius elements." The word persists in hacker circles, but may have declined in use since the sixties, and has never crossed the chasm into ordinary parlance. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:19, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Anville is 100% correct. This word is part of hacker/programmer parlance (perhaps not common, but certainly in use), and as such deserves inclusion. Piperatthegates2 09:42, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

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.