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Delete article?

NO ACTION:

We don't delete articles based on whether they may offend people. SST flyer 06:35, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

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It's clearly against Wikipedia rules about not offending people and this clearly violates this rule. It would be more than efficient with a disambiguation page and a Wiktionary link. I know there's WP:NOTCENSORED but this is a matter of keeping things encyclopedic and on topic and having a whole article on the N word is nothing but an attempt to allow hate speech under the disguise of WP:NOTCENSORED. Remember that Wikipedia is a project that aims to include and respect all people, especially those of color, and therefore needs to uphold a certain level of social justice and equality. 51.174.227.172 (talk) 14:32, 11 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Where is the rule about not offending people?-- Toddy1 (talk) 16:50, 11 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

It's offensive towards people of color WP:OM 51.174.227.172 (talk) 01:26, 12 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

WP:OM is about article content. It does not apply to the suitability of keeping or deleting an article itself, but only the content of an article. And referring to the subject title of the article within the article itself would obviously serve an encyclopedic purpose. Do you have any other rationale for deleting the article? Because WP:OM does not apply. Marteau (talk) 01:54, 12 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Do you really think having an article that is made with the purpose to inflict extensive harassment against a certain group of people is ok for Wikipedia? Now that there's so many problems with harassment and racism on Wikipedia and the Internet in general, this article is against the work we need to stop such harassment. There's already a large attempts by the community to add restrictions against such harassment and racism. Please delete this article and other such non-encyclopedic material as racism and misogyny. 51.174.227.172 (talk) 02:37, 12 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This article isn't meant to offend people; it's about a historically significant word that is meant to offend people. The difference is subtle but important. This article talks in an encyclopedic manner about how this word has historically been used and what it means. The people who have used this word were trying to offend, but this article itself isn't meant to offend. In fact, I would find it more offensive if this article WERE deleted. Deleting this article would be akin to saying that this word has no historical importance, and that we should pretend it never existed. -IagoQnsi (talk) 02:50, 12 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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