Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fichu

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The result of the debate was delete. – ugen64 19:21, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Fichu

Certainly a topic worthy of an encyclopedic article. However, after removing the dictionary.com copyvio, the article consists of a number of claims that seem largely unverifiable trivia. Was Jack London obsessed with fichu? Did A. E. van Vogt's wife wear a fichu when they were writing? And who is this Fredrick W.C. Charles, anyway? Rl 17:28, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

• I have restored a basic definition of "fichu" and reformatted the article. I removed some of the obviously non-encyclopedic material but did not verify the claims which remain. If these can be verified, I vote to keep the article because it does go beyond the scope of a dictionary definition. If the claims are shown to be false, I vote to delete the vandalism. Dystopos 19:16, 23 May 2005 (UTC)
• The supposed literary references in the article were unverifiable and bore the faint odor of mischief. There's not much left to make it encyclopedic. Perhaps a scholar of costume could make something of it. Dystopos 14:52, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
• Transwiki to wiktionary. At this point there is nothing left of the article but a dicdef. carmeld1 00:16, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

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