Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Damned if you do, damned if you don't


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The result was redirect to Dilemma.  An as  talk? 12:08, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Damned if you do, damned if you don&

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The page is unsourced, poorly written and does a horribly job of demonstrating the phrase in question. It needs to be deleted, or if not deleted, needs to be rewritten badly The Clawed One 18:41, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Dilemma. No need to explain every aphorism with its own diagrams when the simple logic mathematics of Dilemma will do. --David Andréas 18:48, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Paradox. Lugnuts 18:51, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - there's no paradox here: you're just damned :-) Charlie - talk to me - what I've done  22:57, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Hehe, yep. It was a ref to this Simpsons episode.  Redirect to dilemma too! Lugnuts 05:41, 6 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Dilemma - I don't see it as distinctive enough of one to warrant its own entry, and it's more of a colloquial explanation of a bad situation in the first place. A side note to Lugnuts, this is not a paradox - those are best illustrated thusly: "if you decide to kill yourself by travelling back in time to kill your grandmother before your mother was born, how did you come into being to commit the act in the first place?"  What we're looking at here is not a paradox, but just a form of dilemma.  -- Dennis The Tiger   (Rawr and stuff) 19:53, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Redirect and selectively merge to dilemma, as above. Shalom Hello 22:28, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete and redirect to dilemma. Despite what the article claims, this phrase has nothing to do with the excluded middle. Terraxos 01:43, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletions.   -- John Vandenberg 03:13, 8 July 2007 (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.