Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Length (horse racing)


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The result was keep. John254 01:52, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Length (horse racing)

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Transwikied dictionary definition. TexasAndroid (talk) 15:28, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Suggest keep or merge (but where?). There are about 70 links to this article. Pburka (talk) 17:43, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep but refactor as an article about all such measurements. Already includes "neck" and "nose". --Dhartung | Talk 22:57, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep but the merge/refactor suggestions above are good ones. Is there a wikiproject on horse racing that could be persuaded to merge this kind of thing into a "terminology" article or similar? AndyJones (talk) 17:44, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Just because it has an entry in Wiktionary it doesn't mean that there can't be an encyclopedia article. I would suggest renaming it to Length (sport) so that it can include other sporting uses - greyhound racing and rowing come to mind, but I'm sure there are others. There must be information available about historic uses of the term, official definitions (which must exist because lengths are included in published statistics and bets are accepted by bookmakers on numbers of lengths in winning margins) etc. This is a fine stub for an article which belongs in an encyclopedia. Phil Bridger (talk) 22:32, 19 February 2008 (UTC)


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