Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mind your Ps and Qs

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dictionary definition of an English phrase with speculation about its etymology, cited to primary sources. wikt:mind one's ps and qs accomplishes what this is trying to do much better. and rightly so, for Wikipedia is not a dictionary. TryKid ^{[dubious – discuss]} 15:13, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

• keep, cleanup. valid Wikipedia article. --Altenmann >talk 16:02, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
• keep, there's nothing much wrong with the article, and it's certainly an encyclopedic topic. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:18, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
• Keep. There is a grey area that's hard to sort between here and Wiktionary. The test is whether this is merely an (etymological) dictionary entry WP:DICT. My feeling is that where the social/historical interest in a phrase's origin outweighs the linguistic information about how it's used, it's possible to have a social/historically-biased encyclopedia entry. This doesn't preclude having a linguistically-biased dictionary entry in Wiktionary. It's not either/or. This particular phrase is interesting enough, and sufficiently sourced, to pass. Elemimele (talk) 17:26, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
• Keep: The nominator's statement that the wiktionary page "accomplishes what this is trying to do much better" is incorrect. The Wikipedia article is much more in-depth. Toughpigs (talk) 18:39, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 18:47, 25 November 2024 (UTC)
• Keep per WP:BEFORE. A search on Google books would have been appreciated. Bearian (talk) 06:54, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
• Keep per Elemimele's argument. Toughpigs (talk) 16:35, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

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