Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of idioms in the English language (G)


 * 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 Delete All. —Wknight94 (talk) 03:43, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

List of idioms in the English language (G)


This afd found that there is strong consensus that lists of idioms violate WP:WINAD. Additional concerns are that they are unsourced, and that there are problems sourcing them and that they contain original research. The only defence put up was the non-argument that these lists are useful. Also nominated are the lists of idioms for the letters H through Q inclusive. These were recently copied to Wiktionary. MER-C 08:11, 3 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom Copysan 09:35, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I think that the information in the article is commonplace knowledge and does not need a source. 71.112.234.25 10:06, 3 December 2006 (UTC) — 71.112.234.25 (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * What about the other two problems? MER-C 11:34, 3 December 2006 (UTC)


 * keep keep because idioms are important to users, these should be transwiki-ed, but there should be an article for idioms in the english language somewhere in wikipedia... that article needs to point people to wiktionary, until that article exists, these are a keep.  oh, btw, imho, useful for non-native speakers of english is a trump to the other concerns.--Buridan 14:12, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per precedent. "There is also a preponderance by "keep" commenters to opine based on the usefulness, which is not a strong argument as the information will still be available." Punkmorten 14:30, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, reason is the same as the other AFD. Ter e nce Ong 15:02, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete all as for the previous debate on A to F. Emeraude 16:06, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete it's been transwikied already. TSO1D 19:12, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete since it's already been transwikied. Danny Lilithborne 21:33, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete All per nom and per reasons given in the AfD for the deleted "(A)" list. Agent 86 20:10, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete All The iodoms from the lists have been transwikied and removed. Absolutly no point of having a list with all items in list deleted.--Natl1 21:34, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete All. Usual reasons. WMMartin 17:03, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete All - Unsubstantiated, original research.Glendoremus 22:03, 8 December 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.