Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bracing

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 Not delete. Whether this article is kept as is, merged, or renamed is a debate that can be done outside of AfD. Deathphoenix ʕ 19:45, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bracing

Delete/merge TLEberle 09:15, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

• This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. (Liberatore, 2006) 13:44, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

• Merge/rename - I don't think I quite understand what this is about, but the title is certainly not descriptive enough. Wickethewok 15:06, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Dicdef at best. Tevildo 16:59, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
  • A dictionary article and a stub encyclopaedia article are not the same thing. They should not be conflated. Uncle G 18:14, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Apologies for being unclear. "Bracing", as an article, can't (IMO) be more than a dictionary definition, as the title is too general. The existing content refers to a specific type of bracing, viz, military brace, which already has an article with which I take no issue. Tevildo 21:40, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Is this where we get "brace yourselves, lads" from? If so, I wish they'd just say that. --DaveG12345 17:33, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
  • That's brace (position). Uncle G 18:14, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Thanks - turns out if someone told me to "brace myself", I wouldn't know what the hell I was doing :-) --DaveG12345 19:02, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
• I suspect that the original author chose the article's title from the nickname given to this posture at the South Carolina military school that xe attends. (Read the first version of the article.) A more formal and widely recognized name is "military brace", which is of course where this article belongs. There are yet more formal names still, as the article explains. It is a recognized posture, that is amply covered, under several names, in medical literature. The article cites sources that can be checked to confirm this. A modicum of research will turn up hundreds more. This is an encyclopaedia article about a concept, a particular posture of the human body, not a dictionary article about a word or a phrase. The argument that this is a "dicdef" is fallacious. Keep. Uncle G 18:14, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
• Rename/Move to Military brace as main article. Bracing is too ambiguous and should become a redirect, but military brace definitely seems to be a valid concept, upon which more could be written to expand the article - ideally a little more clarity on how we achieve it, and why we might want to do so. I'm convinced it's more than just a dicdef. --DaveG12345 19:02, 23 June 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.