Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taverna

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 expanded greatly, way beyond dicdef. mikka (t) 17:37, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Taverna

• Why is this being considered for deletion? There is no entry for "taverna" on Wikipedia at the moment - this should be a stub at least! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.106.176.209 (talk • contribs).
  • The reason is that Wikipedia is not a dictionary. This is not an encyclopaedia article but (potentially) a dictionary entry. You might like to add an entry to Wikipedia's sister project Wiktionary. Flapdragon 00:32, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

• (This article was nominated by Flapdragon, who apparently was interrupted or otherwise didn't finish the process). Anyway right now it's a dicdef. If the author of the above comment wants to write an actual stub, he should feel free --Trovatore 22:49, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Give me a chance guys! 213.106.176.209 was so keen to defend this article s/he got there before me and caused an edit conflict. Transwiki to Wiktionary. Flapdragon 22:55, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Incidentally "tavern" is neither a good translation of Ταβερνα nor a good definition of the word taverna as used in English. Flapdragon 23:03, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

• No, it's not. Therefore delete rather than transwiki. Chick Bowen 23:25, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I suppose what I meant was that it would be good to have an entry on Wiktionary for taverna, it's just not an encyclopaedia entry, but you're right that this isn't any use in its present form, and so I withdraw the transwiki vote. Delete. Flapdragon 00:32, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. I am sure that an encyclopedic article could be created about this and its role in Greek life, cuisine and culture despite its current dictdef status. Capitalistroadster 01:22, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
  • No doubt, but that can happen even if the current article is deleted. I haven't seen much evidence that inferior articles on a topic promote the writing of good ones later on. OTOH if the AfD motivates someone to write an encyclopedic article before the end of its time period, then it's done its job. --Trovatore 02:05, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep I have expanded the article explaining its role in Greek cuisine and culture. Capitalistroadster 11:02, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
• Change vote to Keep. Nice job, Capitalistroadster. Chick Bowen 13:42, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Looks really good now. Thanks, CR. --Trovatore 15:26, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, and thank you for saving this one, Capitalistroadster. Jkelly 07:15, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep article is fine --Me or a Robin 11:30, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per above --Rogerd 13:37, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep it looks good to me - I'm glad I started it off now --213.106.176.209 23:14, 23 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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.