Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Best friend

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 - will put a notice for merging on the article. HappyCamper 16:39, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Best friend

This is essentially a dictionary definition with some speculation added. There's nothing here that shouldn't properly be in the Friend article. Delete. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 16:39, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

• delete - could be a valid article, is researched and sourced (Argyle's work, for instance), but not in this state. Unsourced and some inaccuracies. The JPS 17:20, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Consensus indicates that dicdefs are acceptable for Triviapedia, I mean Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pillow fight and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Son of a bitch. Just add a long, tedious pop culture section, maybe with that "BFF" stuff from South Park, and this article will be on its way to featured status! Brian G. Crawford 17:27, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

  I assume that you're just being sarcastic rather than genuinely violating WP:POINT... The trouble is that your "vote" could actually help the article to stay here. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 18:04, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Having re-read WP:POINT, I realize that voting to keep this article may be a violation, while my sarcasm clearly is not a violation. I therefore change my vote to delete. Brian G. Crawford 18:20, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
  • I do believe you broke my sarcasm detector. I demand that you reimburse me. Kotepho 18:39, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

    I sympathise completely with the sarcasm. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 20:19, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

• Redirect to Friendship. David Sneek 18:10, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
• Merge/Redirect to Friendship. Should be covered somewhere, but not good enough to stand alone. Kotepho 18:42, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to Friendship seems to make the most sense. --Hetar 20:29, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
• Merge/Redirect to Friendship per Kotepho. --Allen 01:45, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Very unencyclopaedic. Gold Stur 04:52, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
• Merge/redirect to Friendship.--Dakota ~ 00:54, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect as per above. Kafziel 04:42, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Content pretty much sucks, but a distinction between normal friendship and "best friend" is quite encyclopaedic, especially with situations in history when one has to choose between them. Does Julius Caesar (play) ring any bells? Elle _{vécut heureuse} ^{à jamais} (Be eudaimonic!) 05:43, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

  But what about the distinction between wearing a suit and wearing one's best suit, and suchlike? No-one's denying that friends, like other things, can be ranked from worst to best, but is that encyclopædic? --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 17:55, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

• Redirect to Friendship. Either a dicdef as it is or duplicating that article if expanded. —Whouk (talk) 21:16, 25 April 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.