Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shoal

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The result of the debate was keep. —Xezbeth 09:43, May 7, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Shoal

Not one dictdef, but two! And it's already in wiktionary. Grutness|hello? 06:52, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

  • Delete, dictionary definition, already in wiktionary. Megan1967 07:31, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. Loads of pages link here. Compare the entry for herd, which has material on animal behaviour. Sure, it's not much more than a dictdef now, but I had plans for putting some stuff about fish avoiding predators, and linguistic subtleties of shoal vs school vs herd vs flock. Robinh 07:44, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • Linguistic subtleties of words belong in Wiktionary. There's a link to the Wiktionary article here. Please follow it. Uncle G 14:08, 2005 Apr 27 (UTC)
  • comment I've just put a load of stuff in, so the article is something like OK now Robinh 11:52, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • I've removed it and cleaned up the disambiguation. I encourage you to put your text in swarm, where it belongs and where school (disambiguation) directs you to. Uncle G 14:08, 2005 Apr 27 (UTC)
  • Keep as a disambiguation. If Robinh makes the mistake of creating a duplicate article, others are bound to, and this article will only get re-created if deleted. Uncle G 14:08, 2005 Apr 27 (UTC)
  • comment This sounds good to me. I'll get round to putting it in swarm when I get a minute. Best wishes, Robinh 14:52, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep as disambig/dictionary link. — RJH 16:05, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep per Uncle G/RJHall. —msh210 21:52, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep as per Uncle G. Capitalistroadster 02:04, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Much better now as a dab. Well done. Grutness|hello?
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