Bespreking:Kaffir

Hoekom is Kaffer / Kaffir uitgevee? Is dit nie juis nodig om 'n gesaghebbende artikel soos en:Kaffir (ethnic slur) in afrikaans ook te hê nie?

I have to agree, although it is not the best of articles to have.. it still think that every article that publishes information should be allowed to stay. --Bezuidenhout (kontak) 16:14, 19 Maart 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia isn't intended to provide information on everything - it was never meant to. Articles about words, including their etimology, history and modern usage belongs in a dictionary, not an encyclopaedia. One could, however, use some of this information in an article on Rassisme in Suid-Afrika or something similar. Anrie (kontak) 16:26, 19 Maart 2009 (UTC)

But surley there must be some word which need a definition which needs real deapth which is hard to find in a dictionary. don't articles such as the 'definition' of certain racially used words or concepts need information and about it's history in the past?--Bezuidenhout (kontak) 16:29, 19 Maart 2009 (UTC)

Just because there is a lot to say about something, doesn't qualify it for an article. I have dictionaries which use cover some words in multiple pages - I'm not talking about bilingual dictionaries of regular dictionaries like Oxford's, but etimological and usage dictionaries. Just because I can tell you three pages' worth about the word "cheek" (and I can) does not make this information suitable for the article "cheek". Rather I could use a summarised version as an example in an article about linguistics. The reverse of this is also true: here we have a very small amount of encyclopaedic information which would fit into one or two sentences at the most: (the majority of the English article is non-encyclopaedic). The encyclopaedic information would fit very well in an article about Racism, under the subheading "Rassistiese terminologie", where you can also mention "outa", "nonna", "meid", "koelie", etc. The Afrikaans article was (and the English one still is) a dressed-up dictionary entry. Anrie (kontak) 16:45, 19 Maart 2009 (UTC)

I see! So we can simply list the actual definition of the K word in a article about racial meanings, and then create a redirect? If i'm wrong, please correct me :S Bezuidenhout (kontak) 16:51, 19 Maart 2009 (UTC)

Well, I'd suggest creating an article about Racism in South Africa (not simply racist terms - that's no better than individual articles on words) and then discussing racist terminology in that article, with redirects from the words themselves. Anrie (kontak) 16:56, 19 Maart 2009 (UTC)

Right then! I've got it now.. :) --Bezuidenhout (kontak) 16:59, 19 Maart 2009 (UTC)