Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Girlfriend (4th nomination)

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, per WP:SNOW. Stifle (talk) 00:38, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Girlfriend

Wikipedia is not a dictionary. This article should be deleted and then softly redirected to Wiktionary. Free for all 20:54, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

• Keep — I feel an encyclopedia should have an entry on this. _└^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 21:00, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep. This is the fourth nomination and in all previous 3 nominations had consensuses to keep. Georgia guy 21:09, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Unless you're going to delete boyfriend and all the others. Also, previous nominations did have consensus. Sue Anne 21:30, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as dictdef. Whatever was said previously, I don't see this as adding anythign significant to the Wiktionary article. Just zis Guy you know? 21:34, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep highly likely search term with heaps of room for expansion, such as discussing the historical status of the concept of a girlfriend and international, cultural, and sociological variations in the concept. As it stands it is a dicdef, but it has significant potential to be expanded as a concept rather than as a term. Ziggurat 21:39, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per above. And people wonder why AfD's considered broken in some circles. --badlydrawnjeff (WP:MEMES?) 22:29, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment this has been offered up FOUR TIMES NOW. The last three all were consensus keeps. Grr. --badlydrawnjeff (WP:MEMES?) 22:39, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
    • Comment the fact that it has been up this many times indicates that it does need some considerable improvement, I think. Ziggurat 22:41, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
      • Perhaps the only choice I know is to write an html reference code not to nominate it again after this Afd is closed. Georgia guy 22:43, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
        • I don't have any problem with repeated nominations, as long as the grounds for the argument are valid (they are here, I just happen not to agree with them!). The article still needs expansion, and when it is I doubt anyone will nominate it again. Prove it with action rather than say it with warnings, sort of thing. Ziggurat 22:46, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep; last AfD for this article closed but two weeks ago. David Sneek 22:47, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep More than a dictionary definition. Sumahoy 01:44, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep. As pointed out in the last AfD, this has a great deal of cultural relevance. It's something taken completely for granted in the countries most of us come from, but the existence/role of a girlfriend around the world is a topic I would want to read about and is very notable. I want to tag this article for expansion, not see it deleted! Grandmasterka 05:23, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy keep per whatever the opposite of G4 is. Encyclopedia and dictionary worthy. TheProject 06:55, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
• If (as user:David Sneek says) the last AfD was 2 weeks ago, and was a keep, then speedy keep -- Simon Cursitor 08:28, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
  • The last AfD can be found here. TheProject 18:17, 5 May 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.