Talk:Macmillan English Dictionary Online

Merge?
I see no claim of notability here, and not much data, and it seems that at best, this should probably be merged with Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners. --Nat Gertler (talk) 12:46, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

A fair point: part of the problem is that there isn't yet much scholarly discussion of this new type of dictionary, but I believe some of them really are significant new objects, rather than just electronic replicas of printed dictionaries (see eg Wikipedia article on the Urban Dictionary). I have now added a v recent publication which discusses the dictionary this article is about Michaelrundell (talk) 17:35, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Indeed, and there may be much to say. However, at this point the article isn't saying much, and there would be an advantage to having it in the same article as the print dictionary, as the topic of the basis for the content of the main dictionary is one they share. From a practical matter, if you review the Wikipedia guidelines on notability, you'll find that when we say that something has to be notable, we're not so much saying that it has to be noteworthy as we are saying that it has to have been noted, to have gained significant coverage in multiple appropriate secondary sources. By merging the two articles, we would be in effect combining the notations made about them, which would help protect them (I will note that if this article in its current state was subject to the Wikipedia Articles for Deletion process and supported solely on the existing references, it would likely not survive.) Merging them would give the information about this dictionary a more protected realm, a fertile place where information and references could be added as they arose. Then, once the information is more robust and the notability better secured, it could be spun back off into its own article. --Nat Gertler (talk) 19:11, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

OK: this all sounds fine: I will merge data from here into the other article as you suggest. Once that's done I'll need to delete this article: could you let me know how that's done? Tx Michaelrundell (talk) 10:52, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Let me know when you're done with the edits, and then I'll WP:REDIRECT this page to that one. --Nat Gertler (talk) 12:41, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

That's now done (data from here taken into entry for Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners), so this ready for deletion. Thanks for yr help Michaelrundell (talk) 09:56, 30 July 2011 (UTC)