Wiktionary:Requests for deletion: Difference between revisions

This page is for deletion requests, for when you think a page should be deleted. See our deletion rules for more information. Old requests can be found here.

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===[[genericwordtobedeleted]]===
This entry is redundant, not notable, and all in all one that doesn't belong in a dictionary.  -- ~~~~
*'''Delete'''.  -- ~~~~

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This little project was abandoned 4+ years ago. I think it is high time we finally delete it and remove it from the pages it is on. Let's be honest--who can honestly say they care that foot was the word of the day March 13, 2006? If this project or a similar one (e.g. word of the week) were to ever get picked up again, we probably would not (read: we really shouldn't) clutter up our pages with a template stating when it was the word of the day/week because there is no point: no one cares and it's not interesting or relevant in any way. English Wiktionary certainly doesn't do it and I'm sure it's for this very reason. · Tygrrr... 15:51, 25 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Not useful anymore. If we once reach 50 active editors and 100k entries it might be good to have, but this will akes years. -Barras (talk) 13:50, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - easily restored if need be at some point; currently not useful as Barras said. I can have User:Arbitrarily0Bot remove or substitute the transclusions if warranted. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 20:00, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think it might be better to remove it. Tygrrr is right, noone cares when an entry was word of the day. -Barras (talk) 22:11, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete what the weird German with editcountitis said ;) Griffinofwales (talk) 22:14, 30 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Doesn't seem to be a very notable given name, but I'm not sure of our policy on this. Your thoughts? Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 13:40, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking of Mitt Romney Mitt is his first name. --72.73.84.124 (talk) 14:02, 26 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]