Talk:b*tches

RFD discussion: August 2019–April 2020

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b*tches

Curiously, b*tch was deleted and this wasn't. We should probably be consistent one way or another. --Pious Eterino (talk) 21:49, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

both the singular and the plural are (very) well attested in durable media. there are only a small handful of words that we do this with and only a limited number of forms, so we should keep all durably attested forms and recreate deleted forms that were attested. plus there are many such forms already in Category:English terms spelled with *. --Habst (talk) 22:27, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Why the f*ck was the singular deleted? It should be restored.  --Lambiam 23:26, 11 August 2019 (UTC)

Should we keep all variations of vulgar terms with intermediate letters replaced by various punctuation? I don't think we should. f---, f–, f*ck, f**k, fu*k, f***, and on and on. At most these should redirect to an actual word rather than a partially redacted one. It is a bit akin to keeping all attested variants of using non-letter characters to denote a swear e.g. $@#%!. Habst's assertion that there are a limited number and a few forms is not true, there are many such terms and many variations of them. - TheDaveRoss 12:17, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Delete. They are not distinct words: it's a stylistic flourish that can be done with any rude or secret word. What next: including SP-D-RS because it was in an unfinished game of hangman? Equinox ◑ 12:31, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Delete as unfinished business. DonnanZ (talk) 13:02, 12 August 2019 (UTC)

Delete, if necessary the singular could be turned into a hard redirect. ←₰-→ Lingo ^Bingo _Dingo (talk) 11:21, 13 August 2019 (UTC)

Delete. Canonicalization (talk) 12:51, 15 August 2019 (UTC)

• Keep absent WT:CFI-based rationale; restore b*tch absent a RFD discussion (none at Talk:b*tch). A related 2008 deletion discussion is at Talk:f**k, which was nearly unanimously kept. The existing practice is seen in Category:English terms spelled with *.--Dan Polansky (talk) 10:36, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Redirect. This obviously doesn't warrant its own article, but I think it would be fine to just have it redirect to the entry for 'bitch'. TheTechnician27 (talk) 17:16, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Deleted - TheDaveRoss 19:31, 2 April 2020 (UTC)