Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of autological words (3rd nomination)


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The result was   delete. —  Aitias  // discussion 20:04, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

List of autological words
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How is this useful? At the moment it is ridiculously short compared to what one would expect (about half of all adjectives in the English language, by gross approximation), and even if it was complete, what good would it do? Furthermore, there aren't going to be any reliable sources for whether a given word is autological, so this will degenerate into original research (that may have already happened).  Thin boy  00  @134, i.e. 02:13, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete No reliable sources, original research. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 02:51, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Already present in longer form on Wiktionary, where it belongs, as wikt:Appendix:Autological words. Zetawoof(&zeta;) 04:28, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Autological word already links to wiktionary were it's covered in more detail. And a list of words without anything but a definition is not part of Wikipedia's job. - Mgm|(talk) 09:19, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. The explanations which the article uses to justify inclusion of its entries would all have to go as OR, and it's hard to believe that any discriminate list of such words could be backed up by reliable sourcing.  Three years after the first AfD, and no such sourcing exists in the article.  Baileypalblue (talk) 17:00, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete and definitely no merge. There are links from the parent article that handle this concept much better.  This article appears to be the results of a word-game that the different editors have played.  Basically, an autological word is an adjective where you can truthfully say " 'X" is an X word", like "'Real' is a real word" or "'Common' is a common word".  One might as well make a list of 52 things that they'll see when they play solitaire. Mandsford (talk) 21:08, 15 January 2009 (UTC)


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