Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/-oid

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 per consensus. --Anthony.bradbury^"talk" 21:17, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

-oid

Pure dictionary definition with no hope of making encyclopedia article

The article name is invalid; article names in encyclopedias are supposed to be nouns or verbs (and not even adjectives), so it violates WP:MOS, whereas affixes are valid articles in wiktionary.[1]

The topic is invalid as well, the topic is supposed to be an underlying concept and not purely a word or purely lexical- that's what dictionaries do, and do it far better than we can here.

The article contains a simple list of words that happen to match a particular lexical pattern- again, dictionaries do it much better, and are usually more complete as well.

This is a textbook case of Wikipedia is not a dictionary, this is a dictionary entry with no realistic chance of recovery. - (User) Wolfkeeper (Talk) 13:42, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Wiktionary already has a better entry at wikt:-oid, but if this is kept it should be renamed to Oid (suffix) per naming conventions. Thryduulf (talk) 13:58, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Thryduulf (talk) 13:58, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Topic is well-covered at WD. Cnilep (talk) 15:33, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There are articles about other types of morphemes (-nik for whatever that's worth). Looks like the compatible content should be merged into List of Greek words with English derivatives and then the article redirected there. A dictionary can contain this info better, and redirecting to the list would help people get to it.Synchronism (talk) 18:43, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Niteshift36 (talk) 06:21, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My point is that I'd be more comfortable voting to delete this article if it were co-nominated with similar articles in the Category:Affixes. Consistency is important.Synchronism (talk) 09:00, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:OTHERSTUFF and feel free to nominate for deletion any other articles (or group of articles) you don't think belong on Wikipedia. Thryduulf (talk) 09:54, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm aware. "Per nom" (WP:PERNOMINATOR) is also an argument to avoid . My !vote is to merge and redirect, if you'd like to address that.Synchronism (talk) 09:56, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to where?- (User) Wolfkeeper (Talk) 11:48, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

List of Greek words with English derivatives, where it would make a valid list entry that doesn't already exist. There is only a small bit of content to be merged, but deletion is an unnecessary step towards putting it there. Synchronism (talk) 21:01, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Some of the other stuff may be salvageable, but a lot of it isn't, and a lot has been deleted in the past as well by others; but yeah otherstuff.- (User) Wolfkeeper (Talk) 11:48, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. CarbonX (talk) 18:26, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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.