Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Megy

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 was speedy delete per author's request. faithless (^speak) 20:58, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Megy

Not sure it's a hoax ~~so did not send to CSD~~. Re WP:V cannot find anything referring to this concept. "Megy" seems to be a word/name in the Hungarian language; nothing else evident. Taroaldo (talk) 06:54, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The hungarian word has no conenction to the gesture. Reads like an obvious hoax, I'd say, but hoaxes aren't covered by the CSD. Anyway, "no sources" and "unverifiable" means deletion. Huon (talk) 09:54, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Right, thanks! Don't know why I added the pointless csd comment - subconscious notion, maybe. ;) --- Taroaldo (talk) 16:03, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This gesture has roots in Trinidadian culture and its name was not derived based on a word. Due to its nature, it has not found itself to be documented or labeled in any text as it is a fairely recent developement. It is also only practiced by a certain age group (mainly adolecents) in the country. Any cultural expert in Trinidad and Tobago with knowledge on adolecent sub-culture will be able to validate this article. --- Matcityus

Valid articles should not be removed due to cultural ignorance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Matcityus (talk • contribs) 21:21, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - unfortunately, Wikipedia is not about truth, but about verifiability. Unless one of the cultural experts on Trinidadian adolescent sub-culture has written something about this hand gesture we can cite as a source, I don't see how we're supposed to have an article about it. Huon (talk) 21:50, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment As Huon said, information in Wikipedia must meet criteria for verifiability. No editor on Wikipedia knows everything and we cannot simply make assumptions about things which we cannot verify. Conversely, if we know something with certainty it does us no good if we cannot demonstrate verifiability to others. The same criteria are used for each AfD, regardless of the subject matter. --- Taroaldo (talk) 23:53, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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