This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page, if it exists; or after the end of this archived section. The result of the debate was delete. FCYTravis 5 July 2005 11:02 (UTC)

Slang dictdef, bad title. This article has nothing to do with music; the only connection is its use in hip-hop and rap. Incidentally, the term is not rap-specific the way, say, "phat" or "bling" is: the use of the word "beef" as a slang term for "hostility" or "grudge" is pretty old (the OED gives a citation from 1889, and a Damon Runyon quote from 1932). The slang definition is already found at wiktionary:beef — Gwalla | Talk 19:30, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Simply wrong. Any useful information could be merged elsewhere. NTK 19:47, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, per above. --Tothebarricades 20:33, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, an article on disputes in hip-hop would make very interesting reading (I could write the eighties section of it myself), but this stub doesn't do the job. If anybody wants to collaborate on such an article, leave a message for me on my talk page. The bridge is over.illWill 20:48, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Duh. I should have checked - hip hop rivalries is a great article, so redirect to there.illWill 23:40, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Redirect to Hip hop rivalries, no merge--FuriousFreddy 21:51, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Merge content to Hip hop rivalries but then delete without redirect since noone will search for it with the brackets. I suppose it would have to go on a disambig page if we keep it.-Splash 02:08, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: "merge and delete" is invalid. After a merge, the redirect must remain to preserve page history per the GFDL. — Gwalla | Talk 03:38, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • I said merge content, not just merge. I mean, if someone's feeling brave enough, they could extract the relevant sentence-or-so of this article and put it in Hip hop rivalries.
    • Fair enough. I think, though, that there really isn't any content here to merge that isn't already covered in hip hop rivalries. — Gwalla | Talk 21:28, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
    • Yes, I'm probably inclined to agree, although I must admit to being a little vague on what the GFDL says about these kinds of things. The same sort of effect could be achieved by someone 'rewriting' in their own words the text they wished to merge if the GFDL gets spikey.-Splash 00:19, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete disputed information, not encyclopedic. JamesBurns 06:39, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete the point that this term is broader than music and already appears in other dictionary entries is sufficient to delete this article. --billlund 04:48, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

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