Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of differences

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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 was differentate them ad...ahhh just delete all. ;) - Mailer Diablo 20:00, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] List of differences

List of differences (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

I am also nominating the following related pages:

Difference between hair and fur (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
Difference between rock and stone (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
Difference between boat and ship (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
Difference between there and their (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

These articles simply demonstrate the difference between two English words; WP:NOT a dictionary. If these differences are truly significant, they can be detailed on the individual articles for hair, fur, etc. Skate-on 21:27, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

  • Strong delete all The subpages are all just dicdefs, and the entire thing is unencyclopedic on its own (that is, if these differences need to be explained, they will be explained within the context of larger articles). -- Kicking222 21:35, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • delete all per above Arnoutf 21:53, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete all. Obviously these "articles" as they stand have no merit as articles. There are possibly some cases where the differences between things deserve an article (I can't think of any at the moment), but "articles" like these are rather too arbitrary in their subject. You could extend this sort of thing forever: Difference between Algeria and Tunisia, Difference between coffee and tea, Difference between cardboard and paper, and so on, all adding nothing of value.--A bit iffy 21:54, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete all- there are an infinite number of "differences" and Wikipedia is not a how-to guide for telling differences between rocks and stones anyway. CanadianCaesar Et tu, Brute? 22:26, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Curiously Strong Delete All. List of differences, that's it?! Holy jeez, I think that says it all. --Dennisthe2 22:36, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per WP:NOT#DICT. Mitaphane talk 22:36, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete Sweet fancy Moses. JuJube 23:00, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Eliminate or is it delete, if only there were an article that told me the difference between the two ;) This is the job of a good cross referenced thesaurus/dictionary. SkierRMH,23:23, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Partial delete for all except Difference between boat and ship as that is an interesting topic that has some value. Most people in the Marine community get confused on this issue and this is as good an explanation as any that I have seen. --- Safemariner 01:05, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete all per above. GassyGuy 22:36, 8 January 2007 (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.