Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Teen-Age

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 redirect to Adolescence. J04n(talk page) 03:57, 18 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Teen-Age

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WP:OR and WP:SYNTH, no evidence this is a real concept. Randykitty (talk) 20:45, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep or failing that, Redirect. The first link next to sources of the New York Public Library actually supports this though. 'Age' is the noun. This is different from the phrase 'teenage' which is only an adjective used to described adolescents. With "teen" often being short for "teenager", "teen age" can actually mean "era of adolescence". Age used on it's own clearly means era here, especially in modern-english. Arguments for it being an adjective only work for 'teenage' or 'teen-age'. It doesn't work when "age" is a word on its own or the A is capitalized, setting it apart. Ranze (talk) 21:29, 3 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Keep but not as a dab page: it's an article about the word/phrase "Teen Age", distinct from the word "Teenage". As far as I can see only one entry, the first, belongs in a dab page (the redlinked Teen Age (film)). Most of the entries should not be in a dab page because they are Partial Matches. PamD 15:10, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

And even that film doesn't belong in a dab page, as it appears not to be mentioned anywhere in the encylcopedia so couldn't raise a blue link. PamD 15:21, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

So if nothing that currently is on the page actually belongs there, what is there to be kept? A dictionary definition? --Randykitty (talk) 15:58, 4 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't have a blue link because we don't yet have an article for it. The film exists though. Redirecting Teen Age (film) to Teenage Jungle would probably be good though once it is made, in the interest of avoiding parenthesis as primary article formats. Ranze (talk) 19:08, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:57, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, LlamaAl (talk) 00:14, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Adolescence, which is where teenager redirects to. This article is almost entirely a list of books, movies, etc. which contain the word "Teen-Age" in their titles, which is not an encyclopedic subject. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 02:10, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Our adolescence article has a note about Teen (disambiguation) at the top of it. I propose that that disambiguation page doesn't serve the purpose that the Teen-Age one does in terms of reflecting titles using this format. I think we risk needlessly cluttering it by importing this information there. The use of a hyphen, of separate words, of a capitalize A, is very antiquated and better associated with older forms of media using this format rather than just directing to the central subject. This is potentially more than a dictionary definition or disambiguation, but it's not quite there yet. Disambiguating and collecting the numerous media examples in the past of this phrasing is useful on its own and can be the seeds to create an article on the topic reflecting something that has fallen out of use but was very common before. Ranze (talk) 19:08, 10 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
If there is some significance to the use of "Teen-Age" as distinct from "Teenage" in the title of a newspaper article or book or event, then I would need to see some reliable source that explains that distinction and indicates the significance thereof, in order to establish that there really is a distinct topic here. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 01:28, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Delete instead of my prior recommendation to redirect. There is no encyclopedic topic here by which we can distinguish "Teen-Age" from "Teenage". After the deletion, the title can be redirected to Adolescence if there is any interest in doing so. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 20:08, 16 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Adolescence as plausible search term. I don't see any more here than a variant spelling of 'teenage', and certainly nothing to justify an article. --Michig (talk) 08:23, 17 February 2013 (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.