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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Run-of-the-mill

: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 Delete As pointed out, one of the core principles of "What Wikipedia is Not" is in WP:NOT#DICTIONARY, entitled simply, "Wikipedia is not a dictionary." Mandsford 17:04, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

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Unencylopaedic; wikipedia is not a dictionary. It is unlikely that an encyclopaedic article could be written for the phrase. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 15:33, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

  • Delete Clear case of "not a dictionary." For some expressions there is some interesting background material which sometimes justifies an exception to the rule. In this case there does not seem to be. Jaque Hammer (talk) 16:26, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
  • Delete Not a dictionary, and no potential here for an encyclopaedia article. JamesBWatson (talk) 17:22, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 20:13, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
  • Delete - There is no way this can be expanded into a real encyclopedia entry. It could perhaps be transwikied to Wiktionary, if there is not already an entry there. There is: [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/run-of-the-mill].LadyofShalott 02:51, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
  • Delete Run-of-the-mill article. Lugnuts (talk) 09:45, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
  • Keep can be expanded into a propper article, see [http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/run-of-the-mill.html here]. Number 2 thousand (talk) 16:39, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
  • :That source doesn't demonstrate anything more than one might expect to find in a fairly thorough dictionary entry, it simply gives its definition, origin and usage; I see no indication that there's anything significant about this phrase which allows for encyclopaedic coverage. Perhaps you could consider supplementing the wiktionary entry instead. GiftigerWunsch [TALK] 16:44, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
  • Delete. Clearly breaches WP:NOTDIC. WWGB (talk) 12:34, 1 January 2011 (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.