Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Copasetic (2nd nomination)


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The result was Delete. There's no point in transwikiing, since Wiktionary already has an entry for copacetic, and the information in this article is too encyclopedic for inclusion there. I'll move Copacetic (album) to Copacetic, and redirect Copasetic there. +Angr 06:50, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Copasetic
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Article is about the word, and contains a definition of the word, and the etymology of the word, and nothing more, and (it seems to me) has no prospect of being anything more here. An article exists in Wiktionary, which frankly isn't as good, but that's not the wikipedia's problem.


 * The article has not 'done enough' to be an encyclopedia (actually that's not even a policy, but I know somebody will claim it anyway), but worse, everything it has done is inappropriate for an encyclopedia.


 * The article is about an adjective. The policy WP:NAD and WP:MOS (Naming_conventions) forbid article titles that are adjectives; we do not have tallest, shortest and so forth because they are meaningless in encyclopedias, we have tallest building etc. etc. The article would have to merge with something like OK or something, the underlying meaning, and the etymology is much better in a dictionary anyway.


 * The article cannot be translated into a foreign language; one of the characteristics of encyclopedia articles is that they can be because they're about an abstract concept, not a word.

Because of the poor wiktionary entry I'm calling for Transwiki - (User) Wolfkeeper (Talk) 20:12, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Transwiki per the nominator's excellent rationale. This is clearly a dicdef. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 20:36, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Transwiki - WP:STUB explains it well: "A dictionary article is about a word or phrase... An encyclopedia article is about the subject denoted by the title." This is about a word. JohnCD (talk) 20:45, 9 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Transwiki per WP:NOTDICT and the benefit to our sister project B figura  (talk) 04:35, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Transwiki per this being a dictionary definition not an article. Following the transwiki Copacetic (album) should be moved to Copacetic (a title that currently redirects here) and this page redirected there. A template should then be added to the article about the album. Thryduulf (talk) 22:31, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Thryduulf (talk) 22:26, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Transwiki and then move Copacetic (album) as per Thryduulf. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 16:11, 13 October 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.