Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Because

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was already edited to become a disam page. Woohookitty 06:05, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Because

WP:WINAD. This is an incorrigible dicdef. An article about "because" could never be more than just about the word (etymology and such). Already at Wiktionary. Delete. Dmcdevit July 9, 2005 05:19 (UTC) Keep disambig. --Dmcdevit 03:26, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete: Dictionary definition only -Husnock 9 July 2005 06:40 (UTC)
• Keep Because Klonimus 9 July 2005 06:46 (UTC)
• Merge with Adverb. Radiant_>|< July 9, 2005 08:23 (UTC)
  • I had always thought it was only a conjunction (perhaps used to form an adverbial clause or phrase). Looking it up on wikt:because and dictionary.com's entry and both show only conjunction. Also, I don't really see the point in merging a specific dicdef to a very general article that's already only the size of this one, but that's not really a big deal. --Dmcdevit July 9, 2005 08:36 (UTC)
• Delete, can never be more than dicdef. And it is indeed only a conjunction, not also an adverb. And linguistic prescriptivists aren't called "prescriptionists" (which to me sounds like it must mean pharamacists). --Angr/_{tɔk tə mi} 9 July 2005 09:00 (UTC)
• Delete per WINAD. --Tothebarricades July 9, 2005 09:18 (UTC)
• Make into a disambig with a mention that it is an English conjunction and a link to the Wiktionary page. - SimonP July 9, 2005 13:45 (UTC)
• Delete, whatever happened to Wikipedia is not a dictionary? This is just a word!-Splash 9 July 2005 14:06 (UTC)
• Delete, dicdef. Keep after edit. Dcarrano July 9, 2005 17:43 (UTC)
• Delete because there is no other way.--Bhadani 9 July 2005 17:47 (UTC)
• Move to wiktionairy, agreed with those above -mysekurity 22:25, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Please check Wiktionary first. Uncle G 03:08, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Disambig per SimonP, because of the Because songs. Xoloz 06:15, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
• The dictionary article content is terrible. Wiktionary's article on the word pre-dated this article's creation by over a year, moreover. This was originally an article about the two songs, and was turned into a disambiguation that didn't follow the advice at Wikipedia:disambiguation to not contravene the Wikipedia is not a dictionary policy and write dictionary articles. I've turned it into the disambiguation that it should have been made into. Keep. Uncle G 03:08, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete dicdef. JamesBurns 07:05, 11 July 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.