Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of collective nouns for objects and concepts


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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 22:39, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

List of collective nouns for objects and concepts


While many of the "List of collective nouns for ..." articles are unsourced and contain dubious or purely humorous entries, this one takes the cake. I'm not sure there's a valid entry on here, at least not in the usual sense meant by "collective noun". Powers T 14:24, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep - if you think it is unsourced, unverifiable, or wrong, edit it. Trollderella 18:03, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * If I did that, there'd be nothing left, except maybe "a clutch of eggs", although even that has problems. Thus, deletion discussion.  Powers T 19:25, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * If the subject matter of an article is unverifiable, editing the article won't help. -- Alan McBeth 21:15, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete It is really up to the creator of an article to source the claims. Some of these appear to be created frpm the mind of the editor. There could and should be such an article, but it must be referenced. Edison 19:17, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. I doubt this is maintainable. How long is this supposed to get? There's no inclusion limits. - Mgm|(talk) 19:26, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * To quote from the article: "A heap of trash". And to respond to Trollderella: If it's unsourced, unverifiable or wrong, why should anyone bother to edit it instead of using Delete.  Emeraude 19:29, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * The "Status" column clinches it for me - there are better ways of listing collectives than in this article. Delete. B.Wind 00:06, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Eusebeus 01:01, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Too vague Yankee Rajput 02:27, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete But if I hadn't read this, I would never have learned that the proper term for a group of unicorns is a "blessing."--Dmz5 05:16, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Agree that there are maybe 1 to 3 valid entries on here -- and it's not that the rest of the list is just wrong, it's that there's no way it could be right. Tesseran 03:46, 29 November 2006 (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.