Talk:Boffin
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Article Boffins listed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion Apr 26 to May 3 2004, consensus was to delete. Discussion:
- Dicdef of slang. -- Ben Brockert 22:43, Apr 26, 2004 (UTC)
- List for cleanup, but am inclined to keep. With its WWII origins, and its obscurity to many in the USA, it's a word that a good article could be written about, and what's there is a start. Smerdis of Tlön 00:33, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- I have expanded the entry. Probably ought to be moved to boffin in any case. Smerdis of Tlön 14:15, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Keep. Fine in its present state. I've read enough Nevil Shute and Len Deighton and so forth novels, set in Britain during WWII, and think that it's an adequate pop-culture-type article that could grow nicely. Haven't I also seen references to the "Wizards' War?" Dambusters and FIDO and H2S and Chain Home and Bletchley Park and Frank Whittle and midnight flights to bring the cavity magnetron to the U. S. and all that? Pip pip! Jolly good, eh what? Dpbsmith 15:23, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Keep: interesting, informative. Wile E. Heresiarch 20:07, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Looks reasonable. Keep. DS 12:15, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Keep, but should be moved to boffin, as per Wikipedia style ("prefer singular nouns"). Can probably co-exist with the hobbit reference for now, and if either gets too big, it can be a disambig page. - IMSoP 13:38, 1 May 2004 (UTC)
End discussion
- Um, don't you mean consensus was to keep but move to singular noun? Also, do we really need Boffin (disambiguation) rather than a link straight through to Boffin (hobbit family)? I'm rather inclined to give the user one less link to follow myself. - IMSoP 16:00, 3 May 2004 (UTC)