Talk:Urban Dictionary
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There seems to be too much wordiness in the Urbanelite section.
-T
I've removed a chunk of the story about sonyroolz and condensed it, halving the section. Ud terrorist 18:12, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Contents |
[edit] Reliable Source for Internet Slang?
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_Internet_slang_phrases, Urban Dictionary is not considered a reliable source for Internet slang. It is expunged from their official list of reliable sources. In addition, any Internet slang word/phrase at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_slang_phrases must have a reliable source. So any slang that references Urban Dictionary is immediately deleted from the list. I think you should drop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_Internet_slang_phrases and correct these guys. They obviously know nothing about Urban Dictionary and don't understand the definition of reliable sources. Or am I missing something? Magonaritus 20:58, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
- Is the Urban Dictionary a reliable source for non-Internet slang? I.e. [1]. --ZimZalaBim (talk) 22:56, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
-
- UD is not reliable in the sense that you can take any definition as authoritative. Some definitions are so poorly written that they can easily be misinterpretted. A big reason why UD is not reliable for Wikipedia purposes is that any editor with a point of view can make a UD entry to support it.
-
- UD is a reliable source of slang meanings on the whole though, especially for words with multiple entries. It's never failed me yet. Ghosts&empties 13:24, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Neutrality?
The last sentence rather brings the neutrality of the article into question and is unnecessary: "But, most definitions are rather opinionated and not very useful." Should be removed
- Then do it. If it's that clear, you don't need our permission. Master Deusoma 00:16, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] List of 'urban elite'?
Should a short list of the user-names of the past Urban Elite be placed on the article? I've been an observer of UD for a long time, in fact I was one of the Urban Elite... I stopped posting after the site pretty much collapsed from opinionated filth and poor submission control.
- I fear a list would spiral out of control and become very diluted with the names of everyone who wants to give themselves or their friends a shout out. There isn't really a point to having a list other than for vanity purposes, and if there were to be one it would have to be tightly controlled so that every urbanelite fulfilled certain criteria (x No. of definitions, mainly thumbs up/high stars, mentioned by other authors)- Vaginal JJ the No.1 UD terrorist
[edit] New site layout
Urban Dictionary has a new layout at the site. A screenshot should be taken, uploaded and added to the article.
Also, I think the article should include the addition of Urban Dictionary's search function in Mozilla Firefox (type "slang x" into the address bar of Firefox with "x" replaced by the word you want to look up.)
Opera has supported Urban Dictionary search via search.ini customization for more then a year. Both Opera and Firefox should be included. 212.200.134.12 21:54, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Requested move
It looks like this was at "Urban Dictionary", then got moved to "UrbanDictionary.com" (properly), and then was cut-and-paste moved to its current title, leaving its history at "UrbanDictionary.com". It seems to me that it should have stayed at "Urban Dictionary". Ethan0 04:27, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
- Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one sentence explanation, then sign your vote with ~~~~
- support (created) Ethan0 04:27, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
- support 24.6.134.43 05:09, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Discussion
[edit] Move completed
There was no objections so UrbanDictionary have now been moved to Urban Dictionary, I also merged the edit history from UrbanDictionary.com, so all the relevant history is now located at Urban Dictionary (minus some redirect and move revisions). --Sherool (talk) 18:42, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] forcrudate
the word forcrudate and forcrudation is now in the urban dictionary. Interesting
[edit] Wieners
Someone has (oh so humorously) put the word "weiners" in one of the later sections repeatedly. I'd take it out, but I don't know what's supposed to be there. Someone please do.
[edit] It's down!
It's May 29, 2006. Urban Dictionary is down. Anyone have any info on this? User:arcvt123
[edit] Question
Why is there little to no mention of how so much of Urban dictionary is devoted to petty flame wars that belong on forums, and the severe amount of definitions that are nothing more than pure hate speech?
- Indeed. The prime reason I stopped going there was that almost every single entry is full of contradictory entries, like the war at the definitions for the words "Windows" and "Linux". Master Deusoma 00:18, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Yeah I think the article could REALLY benefit from more in depth discussion of the quality control problems of the sight and the proliferation of stupid "definitions" there.
[edit] Graffiti Wall
The link to the "graffiti wall" on the front page of urbandictionary.com disappeared a couple of weeks ago (the page is still accessible, only the link itself is gone). Anyone know why? If this is a permanent change then someone should probably edit the entry to reflect that, but I'm not sure why exactly it vanished. NighTrekr 19:40, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Commercial?
Why is it commercial? Isn't it a free site? --82.101.143.12 20:10, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
-
- They sell ads and T-shirts.
