Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Journal

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 repurpose as DAB page. So Why 15:14, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Journal

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This is a bad mix of WP:DICDEF and a disambiguation page. I'm not sure if there really even is an attempt here to have an article about journal, the word. Especially so considering the confusing hatnote: "This article is about the journal as a written medium". wumbolo ^^^ 08:48, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - I agree with nom, the definition (as well as violating DICDEF) doesn't really add anything that isn't at the top of the disambig page. The first sentence of the disambig page also sets out the literature uses of journal. Unless it was going to have some odd expansion (historial use of meaning? etc) that got it out of DICDEF and beyond the disambig detail I'm not sure how it could remain. Nosebagbear (talk) 19:17, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Comment this is a bad DAB/set-index page; a much better one exists at Journal (disambiguation) and should be moved here; however, the usage of a general journal as well as referring to the journal of a parliamentary body would need to be added to that page. The history of this page dates to 2002 (compared to 2005 for the DAB page), a merge may need to take that into account. power~enwiki (π, ν) 21:48, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete: This article feels more like a dictionary definition mixed with a very short list than an article, for sure violates WP:NAD.Grapefruit17 (talk) 00:16, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per power - at the very least, this can be re-appropriated as a disambiguation page, which would include things like General journal, Journal (TV series) and The Journal (newspaper). AfD is not cleanup. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 09:54, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
~~Keep~~ Redirect to DAB, do WP:SWAP to preserve histories, mostly per deletion is not cleanup. There is no world where Wikipedia is better off with journal as a redlink. Whether this turns into a WP:BCA or a WP:DAB can be settled on the talk page, but this isn't a case of WP:TNT. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 02:43, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Headbomb - there's something to put here, definitely, maybe one could move the dab at Journal (disambiguation) here or one could expand the article but there is something to put here Galobtter (pingó mió) 05:09, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Well, deleting and moving the dab here is a fine idea; not sure why people are suggesting that per me when tis power~enwiki who suggested moving the dab first Galobtter (pingó mió) 05:30, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and repurpose Journal (disambiguation) per User:Galobtter. I've merged all the entries from here into Journal (disambiguation). At this point, we should just delete this, and move Journal (disambiguation) to this title. The existing Journal (disambiguation) could use some cleanup; I'll attack that after the move. -- RoySmith (talk) 19:39, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and rename Journal (disambiguation). Great suggestion @Galobtter:. Redditaddict6 9 23:28, 7 September 2018 (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.