Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fossicking

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The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS, but verging on enough to call it an outright keep. -Splash^talk 00:53, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fossicking

Dicdef, and not a very good one at that. Demogorgon's Soup-taster 14:16, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

• Expand - fossicking is a big piece of traditional (white) Australian culture, and I believe there are various laws covering it. It originates in Cornwall, and the term itself is argued to come from Cornish. This stub is certainly worthy of more detail. --MacRusgail 14:31, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Expand if possible. I nominate MacRusgail in charge of that effort. I'll check in a week or two and if it's still less than a paragraph or two, i'll re-vfd and vote delete then. Karmafist 00:19, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, notable activity. Kappa 18:45, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
• Move to Wiktionary until someone wants to make it an encyclopedic article. --Fang Aili 19:07, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
• Question. Is this different from gold panning? Zoe 19:22, September 7, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep a little bit of Australiana. The defention is, if I recall, a little inaccurate, I'm sure it is searching through the left overs of mining activity to find useful leftovers. And is used particularly with opal mining. Sabine's Sunbird 02:03, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as a dicdef. If more information is provided, and it can be distinguished from gold panning, I'll change my vote. If it can't be distinguished, we could and should just redirect it there. Nandesuka 04:42, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

AFAIK definitely different from gold panning, since it is "dry" prospecting, and staking out land.

• Redirect to Placer mining. Owen× ☎ 00:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
  • Owen, as far as I can tell it is not the same as placer mining, but you can correct me...--MacRusgail 15:07, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Encyclopedia not dictionary. Psy guy ^(talk) 01:38, 11 September 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.