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 == Fuck Truck == 
 You say ""please don't be so hostile"". I'm sorry if I sound hostile. I think Wikipedia is a potentially valuable resource that is being trivialized in almost every corner by the addition of garbage. NOT: ""you are garbage"", but ""fuck truck"" is garbage.  

 It's interesting that you would use the word ""consensus"" when in fact the result of the vote was ""no consensus"". This is a fundamental problem with Wikipedia, in that the only people who CARE about articles are those who are passionately attached to trivia, so articles stand when no rational person could possibly believe in them. It's TRIVIA.  

 There's no possible way that this bus service is notable in any way, shape or form; most students of the institutions involved have never heard of it, let alone the wider audience. Be that as it may. The article was allowed to stand, stupidly. But the connection to the phrase ""fuck truck"" has NO CURRENCY with anyone. The discussion made it clear that even among Wellesley students, almost none of them use the term. And Wikipedia is not for Wellesley students. Nor is it a repository for funny stuff that was in Rolling Stone. 

 The phrase ""fuck truck"" illuminates NOTHING about the word ""fuck"". It's not even the primary usage of the phrase! Admittedly, it's barely in the top twenty of things that are wrong with this article, but it is profoundly exemplary of those problems. Its inclusion is in reference only to the sniggering, would-be-transgressive trivial remarks. It doesn't illuminate any cultural trend; it doesn't say anything about college life; it doesn't say anything about the growth of language. It doesn't resonate, period. The redirect to the Senate Bus remains in place. But putting it here? It's funny. If you go to Wellesley. Period. 

 I'm not anti-""fuck"" (or anti-fuck for that matter); I've used the word in conversation more times than you've had hot dinners. I've even giggled over ""fuck truck"" a few times  though not in reference to anything taking place in Cambridge or Somerville. I just want this article  and Wikipedia  to not suck so hard. Every day I look things up  important things  and they're not here. Why isn't the energy being directed there instead of jokes in ""fuck""? Because this is the very definition of sophomoric. ""Fuck"" is giggles, and an exaggerated sense of freedom. ""Fuck truck"" is the kind of thing that belongs on Urban Dictionary or I Love Bacon or some such college-humor site. 

 So: keep your fucking fuck truck. But know that Wikipedia is just a little tiny bit stupider because of it. I'm not hostile, and I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed. 

 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by   •  24 April 2006  (UTC) 

 :Well, obviously I disagree. As a graduate of one of the insitututions served by the fuck truck I can tell you that it is a well known piece of collegiate lore. Beyond that, the term meets a conventional guideline for notability because if its inclusion in a national publication. I completely agree with you that the fuck truck is trivial, but it does seem that notability has been established (something can be notable and trivial  see wikipedia's extensive coverage of soap operas for example).  Moreover, if you read the article in question, you will see that it directly responds to your argument that the ""fuck truck"" says nothing about college life. In fact, it says quite a bit about the experience of attending a single-sex institution such as Wellesley this day in age  the stereotypes, the inconvenience of co-ed socializing, etc. That said, if you really think the Wellesley College Senate Bus is so non notable, why don't you nominate it for deletion?   
 ::I won't nominate it because such a nomination has no chance of success. The vast portion of the population that has never heard of it and would regard its inclusion in an encyclopedia will never even see the controversy, and the only ones who care are partisans of the article. But it cheapens Wikipedia. How many other college shuttles are there in the world? Thousands? I know the University of Washington here in Seattle has one. I'm sure it has a funny nickname too  I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that it's ""fuck truck"". Should it be in the encyclopedia? No. But my experience has been it's almost impossible to get garbage articles out of Wikipedia because a significant percentage of Wikipedia editors prefer garbage. But more to the point of ""fuck truck""  you can't be serious. The tragedy of Wellesley students' difficulty in procuring sex partners is possibly a matter of concern and in