Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Port Out, Starboard Home


 * 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   redirect to Backronym. Xymmax So let it be written   So let it be done  02:13, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Port Out, Starboard Home

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This is not a concept. The article is not about "poshness" as a concept, nor is it about an actual practice in which first-class passengers were given berths on the opposite side of a vessel for the return trip. We don't even have an article on poshness to which this content could possibly be relevant. Powers T 15:56, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Backronym where "posh" is mentioned. ReverendWayne (talk) 16:39, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect per ReverendWayne. Thryduulf (talk) 12:37, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Thryduulf (talk) 12:37, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Backronym. This article was created in May 2008 as a way of salvaging some useful content from Posh (now a disambiguation page; compare this version), but the lack of development since then implies that an independent article probably isn't necessary. EALacey (talk) 21:17, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Question and comment: Must articles be about a "concept", and if so, what is a "concept"? This article is about a well-known folk etymology, one well-known enough that it gave the title to the book "Posh and Other Language Myths". AlmostReadytoFly (talk) 07:59, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, Wikipedia articles must be about "concepts", which are distinct from "terms" (which Wiktionary deals with). This is easily illustrated by example - compare Wikipedia's article "Cat" with Wiktionary's entry "cat". See also Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Treatment of the term "port out, starboard home" is already dealt with in the etymology section of the Wiktionary entry "posh". Thryduulf (talk) 09:39, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * As another illustrative example, note that Wikipedia has only one article that covers the terms car and automobile, while Wiktionary treats each word in separate articles. Powers T 13:31, 26 August 2009 (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.