Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Decennium

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The result of the debate was redirect to wiktionary article List of decades.. Alphax ^τεχ 01:13, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Decennium

Is this a real word in practical use?? Everybody uses decade. Delete. 66.32.192.253 00:25, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete as per nominator. NickBush24 00:30, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete a) the definition is flat out wrong - Decennium:Ten Years::Annual:One Year - but the noun form of annual (think flowers). b) Wiki is not a dictionary --CastAStone 00:35, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
• Transwiki to Wiktionary. Yes the word is used, but it's rare. As CastAStone said, the definition also needs work (though I would have equated annual with decennial rather than decennium). Grutness...wha? 00:42, 5 October 2005 (UTC) (getting fed up with edit conflicts)
  • Annual (adjective) also works for decennial, when it is being used to describe something. Decennium or annual (noun) is when it is something, such as the Presbyterian Youth Triennium. It has virtually no practical use in modern English. But then again, I'm not an English scholar... --CastAStone 01:20, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Yeah - you must have added that bit about the "noun form only" during one of our two edit conflicts! :) Grutness...wha?
  • Transwiki. In Merriam-Webster on-line. It and Oxford are my standards and I have heard the word. I'm having a hard time understanding Cast's comment: if your implication is it is an incidental or unused noun so it shouldn't be sent to Wikitionary I definitely disagree. People use dictionaries for the obscure not the obvious. Marskell 01:41, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
    • It was more an explanation of why the definition of the word is so hard to flush out. I agree that the word needs to be in Wiktionary. CastAStone 02:20, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
• Transwiki. WordNet has it. utcursch | talk 07:19, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
• Yes, it's used. Transwiki a definition to wikitionary and leave a redirect to List of decades where decade redirects to. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:10, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
• Transwiki and redirect per Mgm. Punkmorten 17:55, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
• It's not really worth the bother of transwikifying this article. This is barely a stub as far as Wiktionary is concerned, and Wiktionary can almost certainly come up with a better decennium article from scratch. Simply redirect as per MacGyverMagic. Uncle G 17:56, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
• TRANSWIKI' to Wiktionary and REDIRECT to decade 132.205.45.148 18:15, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
• Trasnswiki to Wiktionary and redirect to List of decades. --Optichan 19:29, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
• Just redirect, Uncle G has written a much better dictdef at wikt:decennium. —Cryptic (talk) 11:33, 15 October 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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.