Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Raison d'être


 * 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. and move the dab page to this title. Courcelles 03:58, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Raison d'être

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This page is basically a dictionary definition, which early in its history was transwikied to Wiktionary, but was recreated. I considered replacing it with, but there is a disambiguation page which better deserves the title. Bringing it to AfD because with its extensive history it does not quite qualify as a non-controversial. Intelligent  sium  01:57, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete as Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Armbrust  Talk  Contribs  02:06, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - WP:DICDEF. Tarc (talk) 18:58, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete - per above, belongs on Wiktionary, not on Wikipedia. Techman224  Talk  21:26, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Soft redirect to raison d'être. It is easy to envision people looking it up here, so let's give them that much guidance, at least. bd2412  T 21:00, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment I am no against a soft redirect, if the page is deleted before. Armbrust  Talk  Contribs  10:25, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment I am requesting this page be deleted so the disambiguation page Raison d'être (disambiguation) can take its title. That page includes in its opening sentence the definition of the French phrase, and a link to its definition on Wiktionary. Intelligent  sium  23:43, 19 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment - normally, such phrases can be made into something encyclopedic, but this might be too hard for even me to fix. Bearian'sBooties 03:00, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
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