Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Crush (relationship)


 * 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   no consensus. There is obviously no consensus to delete, merge and redirect discussions can happen on the talk page. v/r - TP 01:14, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Crush (relationship)

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This article will need a major reworking, and the article does not seem to show any WP:NN. Jab843 (talk) 15:14, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete, WP is not a dictionary. De728631 (talk) 15:16, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep It's a terrible article, but I think the subject matter is notable. A crush is sort of like unrequited love. It is to do with a one-sided romance. There are psychological factors to talk about. Also development of the concept, and different situations that the term can be (and has been) applied in. I assume taht there are many sources for this, the only problem being that typing "crush" into Google means getting bombarded with millions of other definitions (songs/movies etc.) before getting to the good stuff. I say keep and work on.--Coin945 (talk) 16:00, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Oh wait a second Bingo.... Possible redirect to Limerence.--Coin945 (talk) 16:02, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Puppy love which actually says "Puppy love (also known as a crush or calf love or even "kitten love")" in the first line. Peridon (talk) 17:33, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment - A few thoughts: (1) This is a very bad article. (2) The term "crush" can be redirected to either limerence — which is written like a section from a graduate psychology textbook or to puppy love, which is ultra-lite. These topics are essentially a content fork. (3) Crush (relationship) should probably be the encyclopedic topic for something which merges the academic core of limerence with the tone and spirit of puppy love. (4) Limerence is a terrible title. Carrite (talk) 17:26, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Glad I'm not the only one who thinks that about Limerence. Is it possible to have a sort of disam page at Crush so people can take their choice? If it's against policy, perhaps it should be introduced, as there are times when something could redirect either of two or more ways. A true disam page has closely related titles. of course, while this would be for apparently unrelated titles. Another way round would be a redirect to one or the other with a hatnote on the destination. Peridon (talk) 18:26, 4 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Keep The claim of the nomination that the topic is not notable is obviously false as entire books have been written about it. For a scholarly treatment, see Measuring passionate love in intimate relationships. Warden (talk) 19:20, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Social science-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 01:05, 5 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Limerence, per WP:NOTDICT. Hatnotes could be placed accordingly at both Limerence and Puppy love directing to the (former) academic/psychology article and (latter) populist/love one. In arriving at this !vote, I considered placing a Requested move at Talk:Limerence in order to move to Crush (relationship) via CSD, per WP:COMMONNAME - however, Limerence is presumably the common name in academia. I also note that the article creator blanked the page within 10 minutes of this discussion starting. Please can someone close this sensibly some time soon (rather than having it hanging around even longer/relisting it?) -- Trevj (talk) 11:42, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep and improve. How does this AfD even exist?--Milowent • hasspoken  03:13, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, I see how this was nominated when it was new and in even worse shape. Close as keep without prejudice to merger/redirect discussions to similar terms like puppy love.--Milowent • hasspoken  03:16, 15 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment: Okay, so I've done a really specific search on Google, and have dumped the results from the first 11 pages or so into the article, just so we have them somewhere. I did a lot of sifting through to get rid of all the unreliable sources, but there are probably quite a few in there, which we can go through as we work not he article (if it is kept). I'm pretty sure that the sources I have compiled show the scope of what the article can talk about - how to know if you're in a crush, what to do if you have a crush while in a relationship, how do you know if your crush likes you, how to recover from a failed crush, what to do if you have an inappropriate crush, what is a crush, what does it feel like to be in a crush. A Lot of the sources are from popular magazines (such as marie claire), and one PDF is written by a woman with a PHD. I'm starting to think that this article as more and more potential...--Coin945 (talk) 07:45, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Redirect -- Redirect to puppy love. At best, this article is a content fork of puppy love. A redirect to Limerence would be ok, I guess, but that term seem far more specific and clinical. Hoppingalong (talk) 22:06, 15 March 2012 (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.