Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A rolling stone gathers no moss

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 keep. W.marsh 01:46, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A rolling stone gathers no moss

This article seems like original research to me (thus violating WP:NOR. -- Where 02:50, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

• • See nominator's change of heart below... --Satori Son 19:26, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Wikipedia is not a list of proverbs or an attempt to trace their etymology. Jammo (SM247) 03:43, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• A Deleted article gets no readers. Eddie.willers 03:46, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• I lean towards Keep, but verify and expand - Wikipedia has a Proverbs category, and articles like Cutting off the nose to spite the face. I admit that the article as it stands is pretty bad, but I'd like to see further discussion of the proverb and its origin (verified of course). --Grace 05:05, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom, tempted to nominate it for speedy for no context. --Coredesat 07:06, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Look up Appendix:English proverbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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English proverbs

• Does wiktionary list proverbs? If so transwiki, otherwise delete for complete lack of context, which I think can't be added anyway. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:35, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Inclined to keep per Grace. This certainly can be expanded; if nothing else, it is part of the explanation of the band name The Rolling Stones. Smerdis of Tlön 14:46, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete w/o prejudice against recreation if someone has more context. As it is right now, it's at best a line in the Stones article. ~ trialsanderrors 16:27, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

  Comment; again, FWIW, I have managed to track down the original Latin of the proverb. The traditional attribution to Publilius Syrus may be wrong, but the text does appear in Erasmus. Smerdis of Tlön 18:59, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Wikipedia has many articles like that, which discuss the origins of much-used proverbs. It can be quite fascinating to see where such phrases come from, how they have evolved over time, etc. Check out the categories Category:Proverbs, Category:Phrases, and Category:Figures of speech. ONUnicorn 14:47, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep — Agree with ONUnicorn above. --Satori Son 15:36, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Note that this article has been substantially improved since the AfD nomination. --Bonalaw 13:30, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Although I nominated it, it is clear to me that the article is no longer original research, but is an informative WP article. I will be more eventualist in the future with AFD noms. -- Where 15:51, 23 June 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.