On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Why in the world would we ever want to delete an article? I know we don't delete articles (as in encyclopedia articles) but others may not be aware of this. It is already difficult enough to explain the difference between certain types of wikipedia-specific pages, mere definition pages, vandalized pages and an actual encyclopedia articles without added confusion.
Wikipedia is the application of wiki to the goal of building an encyclopedia. The question is which terminology to use:
Wiki term Encyclopedia term
page entry (German: Stichwort) article article redirect reference (?) (German: Hinweis)
The difference is that a non-article "entry" in a printed encyclopedia is a single line (East Germany, see German Democratic Republic) while the word "page" sounds like it contains a lot of text.