User talk:StarDelta

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Again, welcome! --Dan Polansky 19:13, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

twanger
Hello there, you have added "twanger" to WS:penis. Can you demonstrate that "twanger" is attestable per WT:CFI? Put differently, can you post hyperlinks to three sentences in which people actually use the term "twanger" in the sense of "penis"? (These sentences should be from durably archived sources, but having any sentences showing the use would be the first step.) --Dan Polansky 19:16, 18 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Hi Dan, happy new year! Here is a video showing twanger used in a such away (albeit as a clear double-entendre), and in a serious penisarial context here  It is also listed in several other online dictionaries.  I hope this is up to the attestation standards required.  StarDelta 15:01, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
 * That does not really satisfy the attestation requirements. Above all, dictionaries do not count as attestation at all. Also, web pages that are not durably archived do not count. Even if I counted non-durably archived sources, you have only two citations out of the required three. What typically counts are quotations from printed media such as books found in Google books, and also quotations from Usenet groups.
 * To make the attestation discussion easier, it would be better if you create the new entries in the main namespace, such as in twanger, instead of in Wikisaurus. Then, however, the new creations may get deleted by admins as unlikely to be attested. --Dan Polansky 11:55, 5 January 2011 (UTC)