--- Ken Arromdee <arromdee(a)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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