Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Elective

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The result was merge to Course (education). MBisanz ^talk 19:26, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Elective[edit]

Wikipedia is not a dictionary. WP:DICT. I do not see any scope for any of the three definitions provided to be expanded into an encyclopedic article. If more than one can. The page should become a disambig, and seperate articles for different topics created. An entry explaining three uses for an item of vocabulary is a dictionary, not an encyclopedia. ZayZayEM (talk) 06:58, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 13:46, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as per nom. RayAYang (talk) 14:14, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete – Sorry to say, I elect to delete based on both the nominators explanation and that the word is already included in Wikitionary. ShoesssS ^Talk 14:26, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and focus on the academic/educational sense. Common in middle schools, high schools, and colleges. Raymie Humbert (TrackerTV) (receiver, archives) 01:58, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep In the academic sense at least there is an immense amount of educational literature. But the best place might be as Elective system -- see the the 2440 entries in Google book search, about 95% of which are the educational meaning. Of course, it would have helped if some of them had been sued in writing the article in the first place. DGG (talk) 03:38, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is it enough to maintain its own article?? I would consider building that content in Tertiary education. I do not think the elective system is standard enough across institutions within a single country (let alone international) to allow a comprehensive and accurate global article to be developed. It seems too specific a fork really--ZayZayEM (talk) 04:52, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Course (education). The topic requires context to be sensible and so should be a section in a larger article. Colonel Warden (talk) 14:36, 6 November 2008 (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.