Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron – Rescue list/Archive 6

 Entries from June 2012 

Note: The entries here are in a basic reverse-chronological order, in which newer entries are posted at the top of the archive .

Convenience
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" !align="left" width="1550"|Convenience was retained Yet again the WP:DICDEF policy is misunderstood by editors who don't seem to have read it. This policy does not say that we should delete short articles which have yet to rise above the level of a definition. It says quite the opposite: that we should treat them as stubs or merge them into better articles which use a different word or phrase to describe the same topic.
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The real problem in this case is that this is an abstract concept and Wikipedia has a lot of trouble with these because such topics are broad and philosophical. The elite college of All Souls used to challenge its candidates to write an essay upon a single word topic like this such as corruption or error. This was said to be the hardest exam in the country and so work of this kind is the ultimate challenge. Warden (talk) 08:28, 10 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Some sources added to the article, from User:Colonel Warden's comments at the article's AfD discussion:
 * ISBN 079141244X
 * {{cite web | url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jh2RAANQtf0C | title=Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience: The Social Organization of Normality | publisher=Berg | date=2003 | accessdate=June 10, 2012 | author=Sh