Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of plain English words and phrases


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The result was delete. —&thinsp;JJMC89&thinsp; (T·C) 21:44, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

List of plain English words and phrases

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This is a dumpster fire of a list. At best, it's an unmaintainable mess that can be expanded whenever someone finds that someone (or some guide, somewhere) has decided that certain words should be eschewed avoided. After all, Wikipedia is not a thesaurus book with synonyms similar words (okay, so that one doesn't exist, but the point is that it's not that sort of WP:INDISCRIMINATE collection of information anyway).

Virtually nothing in here has any context to indicate show when such substitutions are appropriate, and when they're not. And while I realize that AfD is not cleanup, this list isn't fixable. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon &bull; videos) 17:11, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon &bull; videos) 17:11, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon &bull; videos) 17:11, 15 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete Out of the project's scope. Nardog (talk) 17:24, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete It's not what the title says; it's actually a list of supposedly problematic words and, as these are often reasonably plain words like "aircraft" and "beg", it comes across as half-baked or a hoax. Andrew D. (talk) 17:49, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. Mccapra (talk) 20:49, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:INDISCRIMINATE. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 21:11, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nothing encyclopedic about this list. Completely WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Ajf773 (talk) 23:43, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per all above, particularly Andrew D. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 03:31, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep; Plain English is a well defined dialect. -- Shyam Has Your Anomaly Mitigated (talk) 22:48, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
 * , and? We don't have a list of every word in the dictionary. --Tyw7 (🗣️ Talk) — If (reply) then (ping me) 00:02, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
 * You should do some actual research. -- Shyam Has Your Anomaly Mitigated (talk) 00:31, 18 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete fails all sort of Wikipedia policy like WP:INDISCRIMINATE and WP:DIC --Tyw7 (🗣️ Talk) — If (reply) then (ping me) 00:01, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment: This might be useful to transwiki to simple-WP for editors there and/or Wiktionary. Regards So  Why  10:02, 18 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to wiktionary and slap the original enwiki article with the . FoxyGrampa75 (talk) 12:36, 21 June 2019 (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.