--- Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
The article for [[The]] was recently deleted on the grounds that Wikipedia is not a dictionary. [[Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/The]].
Clearly the article is not a dictionary *definition*; but it was argued that this is a dictionary article, and that the things other than definitions that it contains still don't belong on Wikipedia.
I don't think your essay fits practice too well.
Thanks for letting me know about this. I believe that this is a rare occurrence and unusual; do you have other examples of deletion of reasonable-quality articles on words?
I'm going to take this to Deletion review, as a way of trying to clarify what the hell we're doing regarding word articles. Although this surely validates my main point, that we don't know what we're doing.
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