Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Breeder (slang)

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 of the debate was no consensus; keep. Johnleemk | Talk 10:59, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Breeder (slang)

This is a dictionary article written in the wrong project. The dictionary article written in the right project is breeder, which already covers this, and is waiting for quotations, translations, etymologies, usage notes, and all of the other things that a featured dictionary article requires. (So please resist the temptation to waste time doing them here in the wrong project.) This isn't an encyclopaedia article about breeders, of either animals or humans. Those are, of course, breeder and parenting. It's a mis-placed dictionary article about a word. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Uncle G 07:44, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Regards, Ben Aveling 08:13, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nomination. Durova 08:24, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nomination. Movementarian 08:35, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. The use of the word breeder to refer to people who breed has been the subject of a fair amount of commentary. This is a stub that begins at the beginning. Smerdis of Tlön 15:34, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
  • I have expanded the article with a reference to Swift's A Modest Proposal. The article perhaps should be merged with breeder, which could also use expansion. Smerdis of Tlön 19:34, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Side note: the content was actually originally at breeder, only to be split off later. Bantman 21:57, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
    • All that you've done is added a quotation and a usage note, exactly what I said that the dictionary article needed and exactly the sort of work in the wrong project that wastes time. Please do your lexicography in the dictionary, where it belongs. Uncle G 23:48, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Agree with Smerdis that this could be expanded, it just hasn't yet - see breeder itself, which is stubby and not anything more than a dicdef itself. - Bantman 18:45, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I was going to leave this alone in spite of my previous involvement, however, Smerdis has brought this article up to the very interesting level of encyclopedia article. ℬastique▼^parℓer♥^voir♑ 19:47, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
  • No, xe hasn't. Xe's simply added a quotation showing the word in use in a well-known work of literature and a short usage note. That's exactly the sort of thing that the dictionary needs, and that is exactly the sort of lexicography in the wrong project that I mentioned to in the nomination. Xe hasn't done anything to make an encyclopaedia article. Xe has simply expanded the dictionary article in the wrong project. Please stop making dictionary articles in the wrong project, and please stop thinking that adding quotations, usage notes, and etymologies magically turns dictionary articles into encyclopaedia articles. Uncle G 23:48, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete after transwiking Smerdis' addition over to Wiktionary. Detailed examples of usage are terrific content for a truly great, unabridged dictionary. Rossami (talk) 03:11, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete and Redirect to breeder. Werdna648^T/_C\^@ 09:40, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
• Transwiki and delete. Stifle 21:38, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep More than a dicdef. I've heard this word used in this context before. Denni ☯ 01:13, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
  • No, it isn't "more than a dicdef". You have an erroneous notion of what dictionary articles may contain. Everything in this article so far, from the Jonathan Swift quotation to the usage note saying that the word is used pejoratively, is valid dictionary article content and is in the dictionary article. I repeat: It is wasting time and effort to add these things in the wrong project. Uncle G 01:38, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete agree with nominator Cactus.man ✍ 15:26, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, belongs in wikitionary -- stillnotelf has a talk page 04:50, 13 January 2006 (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.