Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Knowledge is Power

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. Ingoolemo ^talk 05:56, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Knowledge is Power

Almost a CSD A1, it isn't explained where the phrase is in common use or why, and even if it did, that'd be transwikied to Wiktionary. It seems like OR in an attempt to put in an article for the phrase. Karmafist 06:25, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

• Comment, It isn't original research but a quote from Sir Francis Bacon in his 1597 book Meditationes Sacræ. De Hæresibus. I am not sure whether this has potential for an article. Capitalistroadster 07:11, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Thanks for the Verification, Capitalist. Karmafist 15:18, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia is not a quotations dictionary. Flapdragon 11:32, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• ... but Wikiquote is. If one reads the Wikiquote article on Francis Bacon, one finds the actual quotation, in the actual language that it was written. ☺ Uncle G 12:25, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Transwiki to Wikiquote. Aecis ^{praatpaal 12:40, 3 November 2005 (UTC)}
• Transwiki to Wikiquote --Alynna 13:29, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Please read what I wrote imediately above. Uncle G 17:06, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as already on Wikiquote. Tonywalton  | Talk 15:27, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Francis Bacon. Carioca 16:28, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Research indicates that there is enough secondary source material on the subject, both supporting and decrying the assertion. It also indicates that Francis Bacon is not the proper place for covering this subject. Weak keep. Uncle G 17:06, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per Uncle G. Enough references in today's society to warrant an encyclopedic article. Punkmorten 13:36, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep This is also a widespread concept. The article Property is theft! is kept, even though it is a phrase. Concept-phrases should be explained, expanded, and kept! Canadianism 02:34, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
• Merge, i.e. mention as an aphoristic quote, into Francis Bacon, does not need its own article. MCB 08:52, 6 November 2005 (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.