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Article became a redirect to patricide. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
Electric blue (NB - this is not a move request!) - apparently User: Johnkarp put a move to Wiktionary message on this in October 2004 but didn't list it here. It's now a disambiguation page, so I've removed the message Grutness|hello? 05:54, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Suffragan is DictDef, looks copied. Cmprince 06:35, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Article became a redirect to bishop. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
Formicarium - Too technical, nothing links to it (except the rather contrived link i made just now) --foobaz·✐ 07:10, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Article has grown to discuss the concept not the word. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
Dysphemism - doesn't look like it will ever be more than a glorified dictionary entry Tompagenet 23:58, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Article has grown to discuss the concept not the word. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
Melée, unless anyone can add something significant about it. We'll just send the folks checking out meleé in Wikipedia to the Wiktionary wiktionary:Melée page because a few places do link it. Emperorbma
Or move it and other terms to hand to hand combat, and have a general (encyclopedic!) discussion. Martin 13:10, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Would need to disambiguate the diamond and combat uses anyway, so the page appears destined to stay around.JamesDay 14:47, 29 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Article is a location stub. Uncle G 20:36, 2005 Mar 14 (UTC)
Kula -- It's not the whole page that needs moving, just the "yogi meaning". Mona-Lynn 17:54, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I looked, but I couldn't find evidence that "kula" was actually an English word with the meaning given. There's evidence that there's a Hindi word, of which this is the romanization, but (a) Wiktionary wants words in their proper scripts not as romanizations, and (b) there's some evidence that the definition supplied is not that of the Hindi word. So I've simply added a Wiktionary link and removed the dictionary definition. Uncle G 00:13, 2005 Mar 15 (UTC)
Please have mercy! Yes, it is a "dictionary def with examples of usage", but w*h*a*t__i*s__t*h*e__p*r*o*b*l*e*m ??? I'm really worried. KF 23:54, 20 Aug 2003 (UTC)
I've had this discussion before (see Talk:Point of no return), and I'm a bit tired of it. With the help of WP:WINAD (and maybe stub) you can argue both for and against inclusion in Wikipedia. Interim is a perfectly legitimate page. --KF 12:08, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)
In Wiktionary. It's not an encyclopedia article, and never will be. It is a good dictionary definition, however. --Robert Merkel 23:00, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Article was deleted. Uncle G 19:06, 2005 Mar 17 (UTC)
Allowance was nominated by J3ff. However, I think this article has the potential to be expanded into a full article. — Brim 08:21, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
Article was deleted. Uncle G 18:01, 2005 Mar 18 (UTC)
Keep. This page is no more "predominantly etymological" than is the page capitalism. And the cut and "merge" that Mr. Dreams suggests above is as much a violation of Wikipedia NPOV policy as would be a cut and "merge" of the capitalism page to the PrivateOwnership vs. PublicOwnership debate page without allowing a capitalism page to trace the 1) history of "capitalism" theory and the 2) varieties of "capitalism" theories in use today. ---Rednblu | Talk 09:18, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Move. This is a discussion about evolutionism not about the page Capitalism. Evolutionism is a POV title. The consensus on the evolutionism VFD was to split the page up in multiple manners (i.e. Wiktionary for the majority of the text (which is predominantly etymological), merge partly to Creation vs. Evolution debate (for the fact that Evolutionism as a term only exists in use by Creationists in a derogatory manner and does not exist in any other form), move some minor parts to an History of albiogenesis page, and have an Evolutionism disambiguation page predominantly redirecting to Creationism). CheeseDreams 17:26, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
The historical record of the VfD indicates otherwise. Furthermore, that historical record points to the frivolous nature of this attempt to work a VfD delete that was explicitly rejected by the VfD vote. This nomination for MoveToWiktionary is a good joke, 8( but it is a frivolous misuse of Wikipedia resources--though a good joke, yes! :)) ---Rednblu | Talk 18:09, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Keep. It's disgusting that you've even tried posting this here. The article has nothing whatsoever to do with the word's etymology, and had nothing to do with it on 12 Nov 2004, either. —Simetrical (talk) 23:15, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Support for the move has vanished. Uncle G 18:58, 2005 Mar 18 (UTC)
Revamp - Just a word. – flamurai (t) 01:17, Feb 12, 2005 (UTC)
Ham e-mail - dicdef stub. Also, this term is basically a negative. It means "any e-mail that is not spam" -- so there is not really much to say about "ham e-mail" per se. The term is a real term, though -- it is actually used among spam-filter programmers; it is not generally used among mail system administrators. --FOo 05:35, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Article has become a redirect to E-mail spam where this definition already existed. Uncle G 00:44, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)
Desmit - A couple of Latvian definitions. - RedWordSmith 16:21, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)
Article has been deleted. Uncle G 00:48, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)
Keep. This has since been linked from a number of other articles and has been expanded by myself and others. It's certainly encyclopedic now IMO, if a bit stubby because it's not well-known outside of Japan. DopefishJustin(・∀・) 02:44, May 26, 2004 (UTC)
Article has grown to discuss the concept not the word. Uncle G 19:39, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)
There's a big paragraph about this in Confucianism, so I linked to that and took out the movetowiktionaryKappa 11:02, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Shouldn't you just merge it with the Confucianism article? -- fiveless 07:39, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)
Article has grown to discuss the concept not the words. Whether or not it is merged is irrelevant here, and is being discussed on Talk:filial piety. Uncle G 20:44, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)
Keep. The bit about Athenian politics (could be expanded) makes it a non-dicdef. -- Kizor 17:12, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Move. It's barely a stub, and a redirect using interwiki links would be fine. Most dictionaries do have a little bit of the "history" of the word, but not enough to be encyclopaedic, just like in idiot. --TIB(talk) 03:54, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)
Move. The info about Athenian politics is Etymology of the word Idiot.
Move. It's basically just a definition and etymology. It should be turned into a redirect for mental retardation or something. —Simetrical (talk) 23:30, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Wiktionary already has Wiktionary:idiot, so a move is moot. Uncle G 21:33, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)
Rebellion, in which a definition for "rebellion" is written, and then a list of famous rebellions and famous rebels is given. However, this list is by no means exhaustive, and I don't think anyone should try to make it that way. The number of big rebellions in history is so big that the list would end up being long and useless. It is better for this to be a Wiktionary definition instead of an incomplete list of worldwide rebellions. Gotalora 03:13, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Article has grown to discuss the concept not the words. Uncle G 00:04, 2005 Mar 30 (UTC)
Geekspeak -- This is not an encyclopedia article; it is the definition of a slang term. --FOo 16:29, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Article has become a redirect to technobabble. Uncle G 15:35, 2005 Mar 30 (UTC)
The article OTOH will probably never be much longer than the phrase "on the other hand". The phrase is already mentioned in Internet_slang#O and List_of_acronyms_and_initialisms:_O#OT. Should it be moved to the dictionary or deleted? 08:39, 2005 Apr 3 JeffAMcGee (according to history Uncle G 15:47, 2005 Apr 3 (UTC))
Wiktionary already has Wiktionary:OTOH, so a move is moot. Indeed, it already had it at the time that this listing was made. Please heed the advice on this page to search Wiktionary before making a listing. Uncle G 15:47, 2005 Apr 3 (UTC)
Wiktionary may like an article on "cold war". Note however that a current proposal within Wikipedia is to redirect to Cold War and explain the general idea of a cold war as a prelude to describing the Cold War. The short definition can still be found in page history. Pete/Pcb21(talk) 09:44, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Article has become a redirect to Cold War. Uncle G 06:57, 2005 Apr 4 (UTC)
I'm moving this on the grounds that no-one has presented any counterarguments in a week, and these are still name disambiguations. Uncle G 18:43, 2005 Apr 5 (UTC)
Los_angelization - despite the addition of some related topics, it's just a definition.Willmcw 20:25, 10 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Article has become a redirect to Urban sprawl. Uncle G 18:18, 2005 Apr 6 (UTC)
Dunelm abbreviation. Can't see this becoming more than a definition. -- Dcfleck 20:55, 2005 Apr 3 (UTC)
Wiktionary has Wiktionary:Dunelm, Wiktionary:Dunelmensis, Wiktionary:Durham, and even Wiktionary:Duresm. We could transwikify for the usage note, but I don't think that it's actually accurate, or at least complete. "Dunelm" seems to be used for "Dunelmensis" in many contexts, not solely the one mentioned. It's also the name of quite a lot of things. I sense a disambiguation article here. Uncle G 14:19, 2005 Apr 4 (UTC)
This is a disambiguation article, and no-one has presented any counterarguments in a fortnight. Uncle G 12:17, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC)
Wrong. An explanation of the background and etymology of the word *is* encyclopaedic. -- Schnee 00:31, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Agree with Schneelocke. --Fibonacci 01:07, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Explanations of the etymology of the word, its changes in meaning, and its usage are exactly what the dictionary is for. Wiktionary does etymologies, meanings, and usages, and does them well. The dictionary certainly does them better than the encyclopaedia does. This is a case in point. Wiktionary has an etymology for Wiktionary:yiff that actually cites sources. Wiktionary also deals with Wiktionary:YIFF, referencing sources, has all of the parts of speech for Wiktionary:yiff, and has individual articles for the inflected words (Wiktionary:yiffs, Wiktionary:yiffing, Wiktionary:yiffed, and so forth) complete with citations too. Whether this article about a word should now remain in the encyclopaedia is not a matter for this page, however. Uncle G 12:52, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC)
It's a color article, and a botany article. Kappa 12:06, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Could also be a song article, in theory... there's a new WikiProject on colour who might well be able to do something with it. Grutness|hello? 07:01, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Wiktionary already had Wiktionary:heliotrope. Please search Wiktionary before tagging an article, as instructed above. Uncle G 13:03, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC)
Transwiki:wiktionary - dicdef for the police slang testa-lying. not sure why they decided to put it where they did Salasks 17:14, Aug 4, 2004 (UTC)
Article has grown to discuss the concept not the word. Uncle G 13:16, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC)
Motard - french dictdef., though there is the possibility the word is being used in some English-speaking subcultures. --Dcfleck 13:27, 2005 Apr 24 (UTC)
Article has become a redirect to Supermoto. Uncle G 17:27, 2005 May 10 (UTC)
Postman -- Just a definition, and it's likely any expansion would be better listed in another article, such as Mail. -- Kaszeta 15:00, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Article has grown to discuss the concept, not the word. Whether it should be merged is not a subject for this page. Follow the procedure given at Wikipedia:Duplicate articles. Uncle G 17:37, 2005 May 10 (UTC)
I would say this one is more of a stub. Someone who knew about this could write an informative article, what they are, how they developed, examples, maybe a photo? It's pretty useless as it is, but maybe it should be a stub? I'll try and improve it when I have time. akaDruid10:08, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
Article has been transferred and deleted. Uncle G 17:29, 2005 May 13 (UTC)