Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elevator etiquette

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--JForget 00:43, 18 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Elevator etiquette

Rather sweet in a way. Reminds me of Victorian etiquette books. But totally unencyclopedic surely? I did suggest a move to Wikibooks but the author disagrees. -- RHaworth 17:39, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Wikipedia is not a how-to manual, even for behaviour in an elevator. Plus, it's unsourced; such an article could only be appropriate if it was a sourced study of typical behaviour in elevators. Nyttend 17:42, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. It is somewhat quaint, I agree. But as above, not suitable for Wikipedia and unsourced. Trebor 17:48, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Prescriptive and unencyclopedic essay. I would second your suggestion for a transwiki to Wikibooks, but the content seems to be largely cribbed without attribution from elevatorrules.com, thus WP:COPYVIO. --Dhartung | Talk 18:28, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per above. Vgranucci 19:31, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:HOWTO. Shame - it made me smile - but as Nyttend says, it's inherently unverifiable. Encyclopaedia articles describe what is, not one person's opinion on what should be. Cosmo0 22:25, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Yikes, fascism comes to riding an elevator. Polite is a matter of opinion; I like the idea of not holding an elevator door open for someone approaching unless there's a "consensus" of the riders. Consensus here is that this article ain't gonna catch the car. Mandsford 00:55, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - definitely how-to material and unencyclopedic. Tony Fox (arf!) 04:53, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Transwikify This is a nice essay based apparently on the author's personal observation and expressing a definite point of view. It is prescriptive, where an encyclopedia should be descriptive. Transwikify it. There could be an encyclopedic article on elevator etiquette, but this isn't it. Please stand clear of the closing AfD... --Ssbohio 15:54, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Some content was found on a humor page at St. Olaf College & on ElevatorRules.com (as previously mentioned). Placed a {{db-copyvio}} tag on the article. --Ssbohio 23:57, 17 October 2007 (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.