Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Exigence (rhetoric)


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The result was redirect to Rhetorical_situation. The content is all there in the page history if anybody wishes to perform a proper merge. –  Juliancolton  &#124; Talk 22:01, 26 December 2016 (UTC)

Exigence (rhetoric)

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Term is explicitly stated to be a "term", falling foul of WP:NOTDICT. Wikipedia is not a dictionary and is not the place for definitions of all imaginable legal terms. Could move to Wiktionary. Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:22, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:21, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep or merge to Rhetorical_situation, where the concept is mentioned. Per WP:ISATERMFOR, don't be fooled by suboptimal writing; this article is about the concept of exigence in the field of rhetoric, not just the term. While it starts out with a definition, as many good encyclopedia articles do, the next section is about the concept, not just the word. Exigence is one part of a rhetorical situation as described by Lloyd Bitzer, a notable rhetorician, along with audience and constraints. I don't know if there is enough sourcing out there for this particular concept to be notable. If not, then a natural merge target would be Rhetorical_situation. But I don't see a valid policy-based reason for deletion. --Mark viking (talk) 21:21, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Merge and Redirect to Rhetorical situation. The term itself, as far as I know, is closely connected to Bitzer's "rhetorical situation". Closely connected enough to be covered in one article. &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 23:28, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, st170e talk 00:56, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete The word exigence just seems to be used here in its ordinary sense of a pressing need. There is no special aspect to this in the field of rhetoric and so the page is redundant. Andrew D. (talk) 01:47, 14 December 2016 (UTC)


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