Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Latin phrases (full)

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The result was Pretty speedy keep per WP:SNOW. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:32, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

List of Latin phrases (full)

List of Latin phrases (full) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (delete) – (View log)

List of Latin phrases (A-E) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

List of Latin phrases (F-O) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

List of Latin phrases (P-Z) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

• Delete - Not just a dictionary definition, but a whole <bleep>-load of dictionary definitions. Already transwikied to Wiktionary. PROD was contested, saying it needed an AFD debate, so here it is. TexasAndroid (talk) 13:00, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
• Comment Do we really have to have the same debate again and again? This is the third nomination. The second nomination resulted in a clear Keep consensus. The list has not degraded significantly since then. --Dweller (talk) 13:07, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

I was unaware of any previous debate when I set up this AFD (It appears to have been under an older, pre-split, article name). And seeing the debate, I now suspect this one may go down to similar defeat. But still, that last debate was over a year ago, and I still beleive that this stuff belongs on Wiktionary, not here, so my reasons for the AFD are not really changed by seeing this old debate, sorry. - TexasAndroid (talk) 13:19, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

• Strong Keep. Previous AfDs aside, many of these articles are concepts (a posteriori, in absentia, et cetera, id est, etc...) have their own articles. Also, the 14th edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica contained a list of latin terms used in legal discourse. The material herein is of interest historical, etymological and linguistical. This isn't "list of things people said one day." Celarnor ^{Talk to me} 13:28, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

• Keep as per the previous discussion. I was just about to click off the article, the thought "what a useful page" just passing through my head, when I saw this AfD. For reference, I used it to compare three Latin phrases which would not have been as easy with another source. Wiki-Ed (talk) 13:30, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
• Teneatur per rebus iterum iterumque actis. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 13:54, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep per what I said last time --Dweller (talk) 14:06, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep per Smerdis of Tlön. —Quasirandom (talk) 14:37, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep Actually thought it was kinda handy! --Alchemy12 (talk) 14:57, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep A handy resource and I endorse the keep arguments above.--203.214.3.114 (talk) 15:03, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
• Speedy keep per the previous AfD. At this point, it's probably also WP:SNOW. JeremyMcCracken (talk) (contribs) 15:39, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep, per comments above --Armanalp (talk) 16:03, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
• Strong Keep per Celarnor – ukexpat (talk) 17:30, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
• 'Keep I assert the credit for deprodding it, though I'm sure others would have noticed it also. DGG (talk) 18:46, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
• strong keep-I can't tell you how nice it is to have all of these together when I have to look something up. Other languages should have such nice, organized pages. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 20:39, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
• emphatic keep This is probably in the top 10 most useful wiki pages ever! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.14.89.164 (talk) 21:00, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep, I can see the not-a-glossary angle, but as noted many of these are by themselves encyclopedic topics, and many others are part of acceptable English, at least in a given domain. --Dhartung | Talk 23:26, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
• Strong Keep I use this page all the time. Clearly this is a case where if the rules are at odds with such a great entry like this, then rules are shown to wrong rather than the entry. - Atfyfe (talk) 01:27, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
• Obvious Keep. Wikipedia is THE Encyclopedia. An Encyclopedia without list of Latin phrases is not a true encyclopedia. I don't see problems in article. Zero Kitsune (talk) 04:00, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
• Strong Keep I just used it, and then saw the "deletion" message at the top. This is a very handy tool, and I just don't use Wikidictionary. Well, I didn't even know it existed. Acter (talk)

keep i found the page extremely useful —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.26.50.32 (talk) 06:49, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

• Delete as per nom. Not an encyclopaedic list. Better off as part of the Wiktionary project. - fchd (talk) 10:41, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep for now This is very useful, I have come across this page at least three times in the last month randomly looking up words in day-to-day...but I suppose this Wiktionary project would just need to be more popular?Nickhats (talk) 10:48, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.