Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/UK-US heterologues A-Z

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 redirect to List of words having different meanings in British and American English -- Samir धर्म 06:02, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] UK-US heterologues A-Z

At the moment, it is mostly a duplicate of List of words having different meanings in British and American English, but is receiving divergent edits. The point of it, AIUI, was to bring together all word usage differences between British English and American English. However, there are a number of problems:

• At the moment, only the first few rows are in the format being proposed. Apart from this, the effort to turn it into what it was intended to be seems to have abandoned. Promsan, creator of the page, seems to have disappeared (no edits since 28 September 2005).
• It is very long as it stands, and trying to bring together this information would make it even longer and produce little benefit over that already provided by the aforementioned article, List of British English words not used in American English and List of American English words not used in British English.
• The format makes little sense. What's the point of having four columns if only the first two or only the last two are going to be filled in any row?
• It is unclear what one is supposed to do with words that have more than one meaning on the same side of the pond, or meanings common to both sides as well as the different meaning. I can imagine it becoming quite messy.

As such, I feel that we should get rid of this and save the work for the three specialised articles I have mentioned. In the long run, it would be a nightmare to try maintaining this as well. -- Smjg 19:03, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

By the way, I've looked through the article's changes since creation, and merged into List of words having different meanings in British and American English the one or two changes that I feel need merging in. -- Smjg 19:05, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

• Possibly turn into something like a disambiguation pointing to the other three, rather than actually delete? And that doesn't require an AFD at all. - Jmabel | Talk 00:14, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Mailer Diablo 11:06, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

• Comment - Please, please do not encourage adding more to the convoluted nest of disambiguation pages already in existence on Wikipedia as a way of making a decision that should be made per Wikipedia policies/guidelines. GBYork 12:05, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete — incomplete and unlikely to be finished, and unnecessary as per nomination. A disambig link isn't needed as the page isn't linked to by many pages, and doesn't have an obvious title (i.e. not something that I expect would be googled). Mike Peel 20:04, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and Redirect, per the nom. Disclosure: I have worked some on the List of words having different meanings in British and American English which is mostly duplicated by the list under afd. Carlossuarez46 20:20, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and Redirect this has been bugging me for some time. Dalf | Talk 08:54, 25 August 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.