Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trope of Litotes


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The result was redirect to Litotes. Non-admin closure. Roscelese (talk &sdot; contribs) 16:51, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Trope of Litotes

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Already covered by Litotes. I am proposing to delete outright rather than redirect to Litotes, as "Trope of Litotes" does not seem a common name or likely search term for this topic. Most Google hits are mirrors/content farms/etc. of the article itself; the few that are not use the phrase but not as a name per se. (Analogously, if someone writes "The trope of the unreliable narrator appears in the following works..." on a web page somewhere, that doesn't mean we would make a redirect from "Trope of the Unreliable Narrator" to Unreliable narrator.) I am not proposing a merge as there is no information at Trope of Litotes which is not already covered by Litotes. Chuck (talk) 21:25, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Literature-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 12:43, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Philosophy-related deletion discussions.  — • Gene93k (talk) 12:43, 18 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Speedy redirect, the nominator suggested a merge anyway, not a delete, and could have done the redirected himself without discussion per WP:ATD, Sadads (talk) 13:40, 18 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I think you have misread my nomination. I am explicitly not proposing a redirect and not proposing a merge, and give the reasons for preferring deletion over a redirect and/or merge in my nomination. Chuck (talk) 14:14, 18 May 2011 (UTC)


 * Redirect - The usage "trope of litotes" is not unheard of. As such it is a valid alternative term for the concept, and a redirect is appropriate.  Redirects are cheap. -- Whpq (talk) 16:57, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Redirect Chuck Carroll makes an excellent point about the rarity of the term, that said, it does exist, and as Whpq notes, redirects are cheap.-- SPhilbrick  T  13:52, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
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