Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Practice

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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 keep as disambiguation page. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 00:23, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Practice

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Per talk, this is nothing more than a dicdef which is already in wiktionary. We need to decide once and for all whether or not this page belongs in WP. My instinct is no, but there is content in the article, so I've listed it here to try and generate a consensus. Guinness (talk) 14:03, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

  • How about making it into a disambiguation page? Might that work?--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 14:12, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
    • Comment - but what does it disambiguate exactly? Any way you look at it, it's a dicdef. Guinness (talk) 14:15, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Possible - surely it can be stubbed and then gradually built into an encyclopedically-useful article?--Porcupine (prickle me! · contribs · status) 15:39, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
  • This should be a disambiguation page. Practicing medicine is different from practicing guitar, for example. (In particular, if you practice guitar, you don't have to deal with insurance companies.) I think there's salvageable content for a disambiguation page, and there are plenty of links to this article. --Elkman (Elkspeak) 05:18, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JERRY talk contribs 00:00, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Reconstruct into a disambig page as suggested by User:Elkman above. At the moment its just a dicdef, but it could be a useful and legit diambiguation page. Lankiveil (complaints | disco) 04:43, 11 February 2008 (UTC).
  • dabify per User:Elkman--Lenticel (talk) 07:36, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete. I can't see this ever going beyond a list of dictionary definitions.--Michig (talk) 08:25, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Delete: Dictdef, and already covered at Wiktionary, and somewhat self-evident. Relevant matters associated with "practice" will already be at the appropriate articles. Few will look up "Practice" to find a discussion of muscle memory. Utgard Loki (talk) 13:43, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep (edit - as a disambiguation page). Only those pages that can never be more than dictionary definitions should be transwikied as such. I can easily see this page being expanded with a discussion of, for example, the role of practice in learning, with more specific discussions about, say, music and sports. Google Scholar gives a whopping 1,200,000 cites for music practice, and more than half a million for sports practice, and those are only two of the more specific varieties of practice I could come up with off the top of my head. There probably ought to also be a disambiguation page for such things as law practice and medical practice, I agree. Note also the large number of incoming links to this page. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:29, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Disambiguation per User:Elkman. It's a common word and users might want to go to The Practice or Practice (learning method). --Explodicle (talk) 15:40, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Keep and dabbify per Elkman. I see good dab potential, as also suggested by most of the interwiki links. – sgeureka t•c 16:25, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment. The existence of Practice (learning method) may appear to support having a disambig page, but that page is little more than a dicdef and a list of things that can be practiced, and totally unreferenced. If someone can find refs to support an article that goes beyond defining 'Practice', then an article may be justified, but there's nothing here at the moment to justify an encyclopedia article. We don't need a disambiguation that's just a list of '(Something) practice' entries.--Michig (talk) 16:28, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment. Practice of law is a possible for inclusion on a dab page, so I can see this just about working as a dab page, but let's please leave the definition of the word to Wiktionary.--Michig (talk) 16:44, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
  • dabbify per Elkman Will (talk) 14:13, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Change into disambiguation page. The term is obviously linked all over the place.[1] It just needs some cleanup, and is already in Category:Disambiguation pages in need of cleanup. There's no need to delete it, just fix it. --Elonka 02:42, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
  • dabbitize it per everyone. — brighterorange (talk) 03:14, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Comment I think it's already pretty obvious what the consensus is here. I've therefore had a crack at converting it into a properly formatted DAB page. I think I've covered the basics, but I've dropped a few wikilinks which I don't think are relevant. Please feel free to prod and tweak, especially while it is fresh in your mind, as I've no doubt I've not made it perfect yet! Guinness (talk) 22:22, 13 February 2008 (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.