Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Common words, searching for which is not possible


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellany page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was Archive. — xaosflux  Talk  05:24, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Common words, searching for which is not possible
I realise this page is marked as historical, but I just don't see the point of keeping a page listing words that - at one time - you couldn't use a search function to find on wikipedia. We've been able to search for these words for nearly two years and - other than the most bizarre prurient research - I can't see anyone ever needing to see this list. Grutness...wha?  06:43, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment. Although I agree with the nominator that this page is useless for all practical purposes, we should possibly consider that it may be used in the future for researching the history of Wikipedia. As, according to Brion Vibber, the archives of deleted material may be subject to clearing at any time, I don't know whether it's a good idea to delete this page. No firm opinion as yet, however. WaltonOne 20:11, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - I don't think keeping a page purely for research is going to win the argument here...it really has no purpose - if it had SOME relation to today's wiki-ing, then tagging as historical would be fine. But it doesn't. Dihydrogen Monoxide (H2O) 23:41, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Move to a Archive subpage, as is done with other pages which no longer have any relevance other than to looking into the history of Wikipedia. That way, it might actually be found by someone who was looking, and I can't think of any reason deleting it would be preferable to leaving it around but out of the way. --ais523 17:10, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete Move per ais523 as out-of-date and purposeless. The "history of wikipedia" argument may have merit, however only insofar as one might be researching the actual history (not as something we should just keep around for nostalgia).  /Blaxthos 13:01, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Move per Ais523 as historical technical data about stopwords. --Metropolitan90 03:06, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
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