Talk:Twink

Requested move 4 February 2025

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved per WP:SNOW.
Unanimous consensus to move. Primary argument was WP:PRIMARYTOPIC— citing pageviews, Wikinav, and and Google search and Ngrams hits—which show that gay slang appears at the primary topic; participants unanimously agreed on this rationale. Only non-support was a neutral comment from User:HandThatFeeds requesting a better rationale than pageviews. Page is protected, so a technical move will be filed. (non-admin closure) Sparkle and Fade (talk • contributions) 03:37, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

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• Twink (gay slang) → Twink
• Twink → Twink (disambiguation)

– Indisputably the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Twink (gay slang) has 81,698 page views over the past month; the next closest pages from the disambiguation page (Twinking and Twink Caplan) don't even have 4,000 page views. People who search "twink" are most likely looking for this article. BappleBusiness^[talk] 00:39, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

• Support “Twink” is most commonly associated with the usage as a descriptor, in fact most results from looking up this term show the gay terminology. Having “gay slang” in a term that is overwhelmingly used to refer to a gay body type such as “twink” is redundant The Great Mule of Eupatoria (talk) 12:42, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
• Neutral Pageviews isn't really a valid reason to move an article. However, it likely is the common use of the term at this point. I don't object to the move, but if we want it to stand, it'd take a lot more convincing argument than this. — The Hand That Feeds You:^Bite 14:02, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
• Support per nom—blindlynx 15:53, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
• Support. WikiNav also shows many more clicks through from the Twink disambiguation page to Twink (gay slang) than to all other destinations. (The term has been in use for several decades—for example, Wiktionary gives an example from Tales of the City (1978 novel)—but its use has greatly increased in the past couple decades, as Google Ngrams data suggests.) SilverLocust 💬 08:10, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
• Support per nom, PRIMARY.--Ortizesp (talk) 15:18, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
• Support per nom and comments above. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 03:27, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
• Support due to above reasons Tony Polari (talk) 15:35, 7 February 2025 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

"Twink death" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Twink death has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 October 11 § Twink death until a consensus is reached. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 04:25, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Oxford says 1950s ... ref problem

Oxford says "Origin 1950s: probably related to twinkle.: but I am having trouble getting it to cite properly. The website has so many choices but all I can get at present is this:

"twink". Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford University Press, n.d. Web. 28 May 2026. <https://premium.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/twink> via Oxford Dictionaries Online.

I will go on trying to cite it properly but it's not my strong suit so if you want to help, please do. Thanks, DBaK (talk) 18:01, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

I've updated the reference. Next time please don't change info in an article unless you can provide an updated source yourself.

For reference:

<ref>{{cite web |title=Twink (n.3) |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/9938321773 |website=Oxford English Dictionary |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=29 May 2026 |url-access=subscription |ref=oxford}}</ref>

rendering as:

source —Joeyconnick (talk) 16:16, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks very much. Best wishes DBaK (talk) 10:16, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

References

Article Tone/Neutrality

This article seems to slant more negatively to the term. It has moved beyond race and is used more as a body type category regardless of race.