Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of English Kangaroo Words


 * 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 Merged and redirected back to Kangaroo word. No idea why it was spun off, really. Black Kite 08:10, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

List of English Kangaroo Words

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This is an apparently original-research list of words that contain the letters of another word "with the same meaning". The article does not provide any sources, and the subjective nature of whether or not two words have "the same meaning" just makes this an indiscriminate list. The Kangaroo word article already explains the nature of kangaroo words and illustrates them with sufficient examples. --McGeddon (talk) 07:52, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:OR. Article already exists. Redirect is pointless as no one is going to type "List of English Kangaroo Words".   Esradekan Gibb    "Talk" 12:52, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge any examples that can be reliably sourced into Kangaroo word which isn't really long enough to justify a seperate list. Guest9999 (talk) 13:17, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment: Aren't these more-or-less self-referencing? No interpretation is required to directly determine whether a word-pair are kangaroo words. —Quasirandom (talk) 21:24, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Looking at some of the examples I think that there is definately a level of interpretation required. For example most of the words don't actually have the same meaning, they have very similar meanings or they relate to the same subject area - are these considered kangaroo words? How far can the definition be stretched - I don't think this is even made clear in the Kangaroo word article. Guest9999 (talk) 02:00, 4 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep This is not original research, but a centralized collection/reference of all known kangaroo words. Kangaroo words are very rare and deserve a place in wikipedia.   Surely there is a place in the internet to archive a wiki collection of known English kangaroo words.   We have separated them into a different page/entry so that it doesn't confuse the readability/neatness of the main Kangaroo word article already.  The sprawling list of words is outside of the main entry.  In fact, they are not sprawling, but an archive of rare objects. By the logic used against this entry, we should also delete List of palindromic places and List of English words with diacritics. Note that the main article kangaroo word was threatened to be deleted before too.  Powerslide
 * Delete - I don't think any listing of words belongs here. Korny O&#39;Near (talk) 21:20, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Merge to Kangaroo word. Neither this list, nor the article itself, is large enough to justify a spinoff article.  Nor will it hurt anything if all 150 or so of these examples get put in the main article.  Mandsford (talk) 03:35, 2 April 2008 (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.