Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harvesting chives

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 soft delete. Based on minimal participation, this uncontroversial nomination is treated as an expired PROD (a.k.a. "soft deletion"). Editors can request the article's undeletion. ✗plicit 12:57, 14 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Harvesting_chives[edit]

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This article is just an English translation of a popular Chinese idiom. Wikipedia is not a language dictionary. Every language has hundreds of idiomatic expressions, but these do not merit entries in Wikipedia. Mandarin Chinese also has e.g. "frying squid (炒魷魚)" meaning to terminate someone's employment, but there is (quite rightly) no Wikipedia entry for that idiom. Lemur in the Sky (talk) 05:41, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:37, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 20:37, 7 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Delete agreed, not just a dictionary. In fact, the sources seem to talk about other terms like leeks more than chives, some do not even mention chives. To be precise, the term seems more of a neologism than a buzzword since it is so recently used in English, has not really caught on outside a very small group. If it ever does catch on and enter wider use, perhaps might merit at best, say, a mention in some other article until then. W Nowicki (talk) 18:07, 8 November 2021 (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.