Talk:Gestures

A guide
Not sure this is accurate & it is certainly incomplete, but amusing guide to obscene gestures. Pashley (talk) 22:40, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Feel free to nominate it for deletion. I've no objection. --Saqib (talk) 10:47, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I don't see anyone but you proposing to delete this page. My feeling is that it would be better to expand it. Where would you merge it to? Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:52, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Saqib, Pashley was referring to the link she included, not to this article :) --ϒpsilon (talk) 10:55, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Ops. I though he's saying that subject is not accurate so I thought of merging the content with country's articles. Thanks for clearing that up YPSI and by the way, he is he, no she. --Saqib (talk) 11:00, 7 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Another guide Pashley (talk) 23:28, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Two years of stubbyness
Give it a new try after two years of very little editing and a perpetual stub-like status or give up on trying to cover all gestures known to (wo)man? Hobbitschuster (talk) 00:11, 1 August 2016 (UTC)


 * This could be a good article, but it would require a lot more material. It definitely wouldn't require every gesture known to humanity, though. Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:29, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

VfD discussion
Why we should delete this: as this article exists, it's a very poor article that is not well-formatted and doesn't even have any headings. The information in it could pretty much all serve its purpose better in a country article (gestures used in Pakistan should go in that country's article, etc.). If this article was improved, maybe, but as it is, it needs improvement or should be removed. Selfie City (talk) 18:24, 2 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep. Better to expand than delete. That gesture in Hawaii with the pinky and thumb extended in opposite directions should be added, for example. (I forget what it's called.) We should also include non-obvious obscene gestures that visitors would want to avoid making unintentionally. Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:04, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment. I struggle with this one. We should have an article on gestures, but this one isn't it, and for four years there has been discussion about how it should be improved, but nothing has happened. Maybe this should be moved out of article space until it can be fixed. It's just embarrassing now. Ground Zero (talk) 00:50, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Agreed, as long as somebody is willing to work on the page and bring it up to presentable condition. (That somebody would not be me; I don't have the knowledge or the time.) --Robkelk (talk) 15:38, 17 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Comment. For more information, please see the Gestures talk page. Selfie City (talk) 00:57, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment. Instead of simply relying on gestures to communicate, we should all learn the international lingua franca, Esperanto. K7L (talk) 02:47, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * You misspelled "English". :) -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 13:13, 7 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Keep. I agree that this article needs to be expanded as we've been proposing to do for a long time, but even if that never happens, some information is always better than none. -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 13:13, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep once again I don't believe the poor quality of an article is a reason for deletion, unless it is a copyright infringement or every single sentence is useless for the traveller. The article definitely could do a revamp though. I think a better structure would be discussing gestures by cultural spheres in the world (what are the common gestures used in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, etc. and what do they mean?). Some gestures may mean very different things across neighbouring countries but that can be clarified. Gizza ( roam ) 00:12, 8 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Outcome - keep. -- AndreCarrotflower (talk) 13:07, 18 June 2018 (UTC)