Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/-itis


 * 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. Redirect can still be created if necessary. – Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 16:39, 27 July 2009 (UTC)

-itis

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Pure dictionary definition with no hope of making encyclopedia article


 * The article name is invalid; article names in encyclopedias are supposed to be nouns or verbs (and not even adjectives), so it violates WP:MOS, whereas affixes are valid articles in wiktionary.


 * The topic is invalid as well, the topic is supposed to be an underlying concept and not purely a word or purely lexical- that's what dictionaries do, and do it far better than we can here.


 * The article contains a simple list of words that happen to match a particular lexical pattern- again, dictionaries do it much better, and are usually more complete as well.


 * There is a good wiktionary article that covers the same ground: -itis, and a list of -itis's there.

This is a textbook case of Wikipedia is not a dictionary, this is a dictionary entry with no realistic chance of recovery. - (User) Wolfkeeper (Talk) 13:35, 20 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete per Wolfkeeper. ApprenticeFan  talk  contribs 16:21, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete as nothing more than a dictionary definition. I'd suggest a transwiki to Wiktionary, but there's very little they can use here. The Earwig  (Talk &#124; Contribs) 16:29, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Inflammation. Just a dicdef but there's an obvious rd target. JJL (talk) 16:48, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete, take to wikitionary. it's a sort of definition, isn't it?--camr nag 23:18, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:NOTADICT. Niteshift36 (talk) 07:23, 22 July 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.