Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Decant

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The result was speedy delete as copyright violation, and redirect to decantation. —Resurgent insurgent 2007-04-22 13:25Z

[edit] Decant

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This is a pure dictionary definition, and Wikipedia is not a dictionary. I nominated it for WP:PROD on the grounds that it was a dictionary definition and appeared to be a copyright violation from a Merriam-Webster dictionary, but I wasn't 100% sure about that. The article creator removed the PROD tag and provided sources for almost everything in the article -- but that means that the article is basically a combined copyright violation of two different dictionaries (a Merriam-Webster and an Oxford). Due to the use of exactly copied text, I don't think Wiktionary can use any of this content. Delete. --Metropolitan90 03:28, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete. Wow. Copied from those refs to here or wikt:decant is bad, but anything that could be should go over there, not here. Wow. Shouldn't this have been speedied as obvious copyvio, especially when documented as such by contributor? Wow. Shenme 05:10, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Speedy delete as copyright violation. I've verified that the definitions cited to Webster's Collegiate are indeed exactly copied from there. —Celithemis 05:51, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
  • note Please delete without prejudice as "Decanting" (using the gerund form as per style guidelines) might be a viable article. Wintermut3 09:03, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete and redirect to Decantation. EALacey 10:36, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
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