Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ista

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 redirect as per Uncle G. Johnleemk | Talk 15:44, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ista

The article has too narrow a focus for a good Wikipedia article. --nihon 07:31, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

• This is a tough one. We do have articles on grammatical constructions e.g. plural and gerund. If this is unique to Portugese, then it could be notable in that regard. Alternatively, the article could explain which kinds of language have such formulations, and which don't. A lot could be written about this. Keep. GeorgeStepanek\^talk 09:09, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
• This is basically the same grammatical item as "-ist" in English, its free productivity is also just like in English (cf. ad-hoc creations such as "deletionist" vs. "inclusionist"). Could be used as a minor example under derivation (linguistics), I suppose. Apart from that, delete. The bit about Brazilian fanboy usage is non-notable and OR. Lukas 10:16, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep or maybe merge with suffix -- Astrokey44|talk 11:40, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
• Merge agree with nom that foucus is too narrow. So merge to somewhere, maybe Portuguese language#Nouns.2C_pronouns_and_adjectives would be best? -ista and leave a redirect. Dlyons493 Talk 13:40, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Call me an INCLUSIONista. Ruby 13:57, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
• This is a dictionary article on a productive suffix, that does little more than give the meaning of the suffix and list words that contain it. -ista welcomes editors who want to write a dictionary article about the suffix. As LukasPietsch points out, an encyclopaedia article would be about productive suffixes, and would link to the individual Wiktionary articles for each suffix, just like numerical prefixes links to Wiktionary articles on for each prefix. Redirect to List of English suffixes which already includes this suffix and links to the Wiktionary article. Uncle G 14:43, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Actually, List of English suffixes doesn't contain "ista"—but it should. I'm changing my vote to merge. GeorgeStepanek\^talk 08:00, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
    • It did. I put it there. Another editor keeps removing it. Uncle G 08:37, 22 January 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.