Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hatchling

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete and rewrite -- AllyUnion (talk) 23:47, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hatchling

 * Slang dictdef for a group that is not encyclopedically notable. I think the current content should be deleted.  Isomorphic may have a point about making a redirect with the title but I don't know which article is most appropriate as a target.  -- Antaeus Feldspar 21:37, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Idiosyncratic slang that definitely doesn't need an article. My first inclination is that this should be a redirect but I don't know to where.  Newborn is already a redirect to infant, which is quite inappropriate... Isomorphic 21:43, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, and rewrite as the biological definition of hatchling, current article is unrelated non notable slang. Megan1967 02:54, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I've placed a tentative definition on the articles talk page (since some users have objected to articles up for VfD being altered), perhaps move to Wiktionary after voting closes. Megan1967 03:38, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Egg (biology), and add a definition of the notable sense of hatchling to that article. The egg article could use a bit of expansion, and perhaps a link to incubate as well. -- Smerdis of Tlön 14:33, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and rewrite, or just rewrite immediately and then keep, using Megan's post on Talk:Hatchling as a first draft. There's more to be written about hatchlings beyond the bare meaning of the word, so it shouldn't be relegated to Wiktionary.  The hatchling stage is post-egg so it should be a separate article, although with an appropriate link from Egg (biology). JamesMLane 05:41, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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