Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Active couple

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 was delete as dicdef. No strong arguments to keep --Ezeu 22:21, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Active couple

This article is a dictionary definition, and can hardly be expanded. Any page that needs the dance term "Active Couple" can specify what it means in one sentence. Yellowdesk 05:59, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

• This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 11:56, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

• Weak Keep - Hmmm, that is not what I expected "Active Couple" to mean. That does not appear to be dictionary content. It needs some cleanup and some sources but it does appear to be encylopedic content. Chris Kreider 12:15, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. I agree with the first comment. It is too trivial and can be completely covered in any article where it is needed.--JBH23 12:48, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep — If someone is looking for the definition of the word, and types it in to wikipedia, they won't find anything if, as the nom suggests, we put a sentence in articles referring to it (apart from the search - hardly reliable). The reason for the weak bit in my opinion is that it deperately needs sources and a cleanup (and perhaps expansion). Martinp23 16:01, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
  • It is not a word. It is two words. Wikipedia is not a dictionary where one looks up the definitions of words. That's Wiktionary's job. Wikipedia is about subjects, the people/places/events/concepts/things that the words denote. One would come to Wikipedia to find out what the concept of an active couple in dancing was.

    The question of whether there should be an individual article is determined by whether there exists source material yielding scope for expansion beyond a perpetual "The active couple is the couple that is active at any time." stub. Saying that it "needs sources and expansion" is not good enough to counter the argument that it is an unexpandable perpetual stub. One has to actually demonstrate that there are sources and that scope for expansion from stub status exists. Uncle G 16:29, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

• Change name? I had a look at what links here and discovered it occurred in Scottish_country_dance as >>"top couple" (or active couple)<< - I've never heard of active couple (I thought it was electronics) but I'm very familiar with top couple and I think it is a very useful term to put in. Now if someone could tell me what the top couple is in an eightsome real and how that relates to other forms of dances it will be interesting and warrant an entry. I've only ever heard of it as "top couple" so I suggest changing it to that. --Mike 18:45, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete It appears to me that this is a dictionary definition, fine for Wiktionary but not for Wikipedia. Can be found in articles on dances. Unless there's more to the concept then is hinted at here, I say delete. --The Way 00:27, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete (I'm the deletion proposer)-- Addendum: three links exist to the proposed deletion article. Contra dance defines the term, Reel (dance) does not, but should, Scottish country dance barely does. English_country_dance should mention and define the term, but does neither. Yellowdesk 05:24, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

• Weak keep, on the grounds that there are many dictionary-definitions in WP, and that it's harder to link to a Wictionary article than a Wikipedia article. Argyriou (talk) 16:49, 1 November 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.