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If this belongs anywhere, it should be on wiktionary, not here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_dictionary).
An additional paragraph with zero references does not qualify as "encyclopedic content", why is this page even here? 61.173.108.23 (talk) 07:22, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
I agree, this article sucks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.85.2.201 (talk) 06:03, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
I couldn't agree more. Yet another "article" on ghetto/urban culture written and edited almost entirely by suburban white people. Really this page should've been deleted a long time ago. 24rhhtr7 (talk) 23:27, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
The following has been removed from the "Lawsuits" section:
In another lawsuit from 2003, the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals declared that the word wigger was "the most noxious racial epithet in the contemporary American lexicon".[1]
The court declaration was clearly referring not to "wigger" but to the word "nigger."
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I moved the discussion of "white nigger" as a reference to Northern Irish and French Canadians since it's a different subject than white persons acting like African Americans.--Nowa (talk) 19:18, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
I realize this is a touchy subject, but given Sartwell's essay and his description of Wimsatt and Eminem as archetypal wiggers, I felt is was worth mentioning with explicit attribution and explanation.--Nowa (talk) 19:39, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
Pursuant to WP:BLP, adding "notable wiggers" (which tends to appear time to time in the see also category) needs to stop. Wigger is a derogatory word. Using it to describe an individual - especially living - going forward should result in administrative action, or at least a warning going forward. YouCanDoAnything (talk) 05:28, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
I'm uncomfortable with the picture of Vanilla Ice in the lede. This is not an article about him and the picture itself does not illustrate the behavior discussed in the article. Any objection to me removing it?--Nowa (talk) 09:06, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
"Wignat" is a clipping of "Wigger Nationalist" and is a term used for people that while follow a far-right ideology like White Supremacism or Neo-Nazism but act in a way considered "degenerate" by other members of the Right, for example: Someone covered in to the brim with "Alt-Right" Tattoos is considered a WigNat. I think it's an appropriate thing to mention in an article on the term "Wigger" Kanclerz K-Tech (talk) 09:32, 6 April 2020 (UTC) User:Kanclerz K-Tech
This article may be a violation of NPOV as serving to advance the opinion that it is bad to adopt characteristics which one was not born to, a type of snobbery? It reminds me of the song, "He ain't country, I don't remember him." A lot of it was opinion. Paragraphs that lacked citations have been deleted. Some of it may have been abased on original research. (PeacePeace (talk) 23:22, 6 May 2020 (UTC))
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect W-word. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 11#W-word until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Hog Farm Bacon 02:07, 11 July 2020 (UTC)