Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wow (onomatopoeia)


 * 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. Liz Read! Talk! 21:52, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Wow (onomatopoeia)

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Article was created by a now-blocked editor judged not to be competent. It is an unnecessary (in my view) redirect to Wiktionary (the disambiguation page Wow already gives a link to Wiktionary). Is 'wow' even onomatopoeic? I don't think so - Wiktionary also doesn't list it as being so. Whether it is or not, I don't think we need this page. I brought this here since it failed a PROD and doesn't fall under CSD. — Jumbo T (talk) 22:59, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. — Jumbo T (talk) 22:59, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete It might be an onomatopoeia, in the sense that wow as a noun has existed since the 1920s, though this feels a bit like circular logic and indeed many sources classify the word as an interjection and explicitly not as an onomatopoeia. Moreover, Wiktionary does not discuss this (only a category at the bottom), so the utility of the redirect is unclear, and unless the word itself is an encyclopedic entry (which seems doubtful), any article here—including the initial version—would run afoul of WP:NOTDICT. Complex / Rational  23:13, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete the existing redirect is kind of pointless since Wow exists, and even the previous two sentence article was pretty badly written. BuySomeApples (talk) 06:46, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Yeah sure, and same as others. I don't think we need a page on this. Also maybe G5, but I'm not too sure if that's how this works. Among Us for POTUS (talk) 01:36, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete because Wikipedia is WP:NOTDICT. If the word "wow" is notable then perhaps a separate article could be written about it in an encyclopedic fashion with a different qualifier such as Wow (interjection), but as of right now this is an incorrectly titled redirect to wikionary and the link to wikionary is already included at Wow. TipsyElephant (talk) 12:57, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete Lacking GNG or any other valid rationale for keeping.  Bluerasberry   (talk)  17:57, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Wow Wow is a disambiguation page that has a link to Wiktionary. Faster than Thunder (talk &#124; contributions) 04:03, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Wow already contains a link to Wiktionary, so a merge would be redundant. — Jumbo T (talk) 10:32, 16 December 2022 (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.