Talk:Iron (metaphor)

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The works of Allah are intractable indeed! This article was born when I cleaned up the Iron (disambiguation) page and tried to turn the deletion of many entries into a joke in the talk page (see Talk:Iron (disambiguation)), to make my deletion less offensive. To my surprize (actually not very unexpected), there turned out to be quite a few "iron-clad" articles in wikipedia, and I was hit by Listmania. Naturally suspecting that here there soon to come a young smartass who knows that wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information only too well and nominates my fruits of hard toil for deletion right away, I started digging/fishing/googling/mining the wwweb to create appearances of a solidish article. To my (now real) surprize I quickly found out that the iron metaphor is indeed a well-researched and well-referenced topic! So this article is iron safe now, and I may go away fom the keyboard without fear. Mukadderat 11:38, 17 October 2006 (UTC)