The result was keep. Rewritten during the AfD. Issues of redirect, merging, etc. are beyond scope in this particular AfD Fritzpoll (talk) 11:18, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Article appears similar to an already existing, and more comprehensive other article.
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bwmcmaste (talk) 23:34, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]"Wikipedia articles should begin with a good definition and description of one topic, however, they should provide other types of information about that topic as well."
"British slang" won't work; there is an enormous variety of it, varying between regions, and if it is a list (as this is) there will be confusion about what is British (I notice 5-Oh as supposed British slang for the police!!) and what is slang rather than dialect or other regional varieties of English.
Perhaps this page should be a disambiguation page listing and linking varieties of British slang? pablohablo. 19:43, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Attempts have been made to start an article here. Witness this for example. But they never garnered much more encyclopaedic content than that one sentence, before being restructured from a U.S.-centric point-of-view, upon which a dictionary almost imediately began to grow. Eventually the only encyclopaedic content that was even attempted was lost by a poor vandalism reversion and to cleanup efforts. An expert was called for, but none came before this AFD nomination. This edit summary said it all. This is an example of how not to write an encyclopaedia article.
As the edit summaries said, a complete rewrite is needed, and until an article is actually written, with some encyclopaedic content, we are best off reverting back to the redirects that were in place right at the start, either to British English or London slang. In other words: The first attempt to write an article here was clobbered in its infancy, and wasn't even good then. What we have now is not an article, and not even stub material. Revert to the original redirects and start again. Uncle G (talk) 00:59, 7 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]