Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Cash is king

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 - kept

[edit] Cash is king

If anything is to be written about this, it'd probably be better written in economics or a related page. Delete. (I'd suggest merge, but there's hardly anything to merge.) - Furrykef 04:37, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

• I had to try to fix it a bit. Maybe redirect to cash flow? I'll try re-reading what I've written in the morning to see if it makes sense. Johnny Cash... good gravy... - RedWordSmith 05:28, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. Nonsense. --Improv 12:45, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• It's not nonsense but it is a mere dicdef (a discussion about the meaning and usage of a word or phrase). I see no possibility of expansion. Merge and redirect to cash flow (an article which does need significant expansion). Rossami 16:35, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Keep, 20500 google hits. I think that there is a small but real chance that this could become another All your base are belong to us article, given that the expression is also used to denote other ideas: it's used by Askmen in a humorous (?) article to suggest that cash is a superior form of payment, and it's used by the Christian Science Monitor to talk about the effects of money on politics, similar to the more sardonic version of the Golden Rule. - RedWordSmith 17:38, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
  • Google doesn't mean anything here. There are 447,000 hits for "have a nice day", and we don't have a have a nice day article because even though many of us say it every day, it's just not a good subject for an encyclopedia article. Heavy usage of a phrase does not mean we need an article on that phrase. It might have a place on a list of idioms, however. - Furrykef 01:58, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. The phrase, as such, is not notable. -- WOT 20:30, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Leave as a harmless redirect to cash flow. —Morven 22:39, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. Mikkalai 04:58, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Delete. Not encyclopedic. — Gwalla | Talk 20:46, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
• Keep - it is a common phrase that not everyone understands the meaning of (unlike 'have a nice day'). The Recycling Troll 15:07, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • But how does that merit keeping rather than, say, making it a redirect or even outright deletion? That not everybody understands its meaning (which, by the way, I'd debate, but it's not the point) doesn't mean much, because meaning belongs in Wiktionary, not Wikipedia. - Furrykef 23:32, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
• Keep I have expanded the article, if only to show that it can, indeed, be expanded. The Steve 08:00, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)
  • Unfortunately, the explanation added by Thesteve do not actually relate to the economic concept behind the phrase "cash is king". The phrase relates to corporate valuation, not to consumer credit practices. No change of vote. Rossami 16:35, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • I agree. That it can be expanded means naught if it can only be expanded in a manner inconsistent with the article title. - Furrykef 20:00, 4 Oct 2004 (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.