Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/寸


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result was   delete. Lenticel ( talk ) 02:14, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

寸

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Delete essentially a dab page for various translations of this Chinese character - it already appears in Wiktionary, and none of the links here are proper nouns such that this character is someone's name in his/her native script, so it really doesn't belong here. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 19:30, 14 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - this is the ENGLISH wikipedia. -- Whpq (talk) 21:24, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
 * We have alot of non-English titles in the English Wikipedia. Just look at the German articles. 76.66.198.171 (talk) 05:54, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * - 寸 is not used in English discourse. -- Whpq (talk) 11:07, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * - And English keyboards don't have this character either. How could anyone search for it? 23skidoo (talk) 15:36, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * We have alot of articles that have non-English lettering, for example, everything with an accent on it. 76.66.198.171 (talk) 20:42, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * It probably is used, since alot of people have weird tattoos, and people talk about those tattoos in English. If such a character were a tattoo, and a conversation about it were to ensue in English, then it would have been used in English discourse. 76.66.198.171 (talk) 20:45, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * That's rather specualtive. Going by that rationale, every Chinese word could be justified for a Wikipedia entry. -- Whpq (talk) 21:44, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I voted to "delete" this article, BTW (see entry below this thread). No, since dictdefs belong on Wiktionary, not Wikipedia. So they would be transwikied if they weren't already there. I'm just saying that just because it's using Chinese characters for a title, doesn't mean that a dab page should not be there. (I think proper articles (as opposed to dab pages and redirects) should always be at an ASCII only title). 76.66.198.171 (talk) 00:33, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete - this is a dictionary definition. 76.66.198.171 (talk) 05:53, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not even an English language search term.  - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:28, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Dicdef, even if one ignores the non-English/non-Roman character aspect. 23skidoo (talk) 15:36, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. This already exists at wiktionary. CaveatLector Talk Contrib 18:08, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Dictionary definition in the sense of wiktionary, which is specifically scoped to do this kind of thing, only better. DAB pages are not supposed to be pages of sister projects. I also question whether any users are likely to search the wikipedia looking for it, which is the stated purpose of a dab page. Overall it seems to be little use to have this.- (User) Wolfkeeper (Talk) 04:12, 16 January 2009 (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.