User talk:Nruthven

Your article on Vertidue
Hey, thanks for joining in on the effort to make Wikipedia!

I appreciate your creating the article Vertidue, and I spent a little time taking care of the little polishes these things often need in terms of format. However, I'm a little unsure of how to work this article so it has a proper place in the 'pedia. Your article starts off with a definition and etymology... and that's really all the material that's specifically about vertidue, and that material is more appropriate for a dictionary, such as Wiktionary. (Wikipedia has a specific policy that states "Wikipedia is not a dictionary.") After that, the article is more about the effect of the war on the English language as a whole, which might be right for an article on The impact of World War I on language, but seems inappropriate for an article on a mixture of feces and dirt.

At this point, I'm considering the steps necessary for deleting the article, but I'd like to better understand your goal in creating the article before I chose to take that step. --Nat Gertler (talk) 04:17, 4 August 2010 (UTC)