Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/-hood

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The result was delete. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 13:51, 19 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

-hood

Pure dictionary definition with no hope of making encyclopedia article - (User) Wolfkeeper (Talk) 12:15, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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) 12:23, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with (or rather copy-paste into) nominalization. -hood is a nominalization suffix (see the German page), and as such definitely not a dictionary "word explanation" but a subject with a meaningful substance and ethymology. Definitely part of an Encyclopedia Of Everything, and interesting to those that are interested in suffices. Don't throw good things away. --Sigmundur (talk) 18:00, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Wikpedia is not a dictionary, and Wiktionary already has a better entry. Thryduulf (talk) 12:32, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- comment if this article is kept, it should be renamed to hood (suffix) to meet Wikipedia's naming conventions rather than Wiktionary's. Thryduulf (talk) 12:34, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Thryduulf (talk) 12:32, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, just like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/-cide, which was just closed. Powers ^T 12:55, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Topic is well-covered at WD. Cnilep (talk) 15:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. WP:NAD. Niteshift36 (talk) 06:26, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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