The result was keep per WP:SNOW. (non-administrative closure) – RyanCross ( talk) 07:42, 19 October 2008 (UTC) reply
cliché is a dictionary subject. The Wikipedia page Cliché has existed since April 2005 when it was first created by an IP address, and it has not developed as an encyclopaedia article. It is time to hit it on the head (see Wikipedia is not a dictionary). Philip Baird Shearer ( talk) 18:59, 15 October 2008 (UTC) reply
But deletion isn't the answer. Our policy is to keep stubs that have potential for expansion. Back when Wikipedia first started, the thinking was that these stubs would eventually be expanded, and that is still as true today as it was then. True, we've raised a lot of articles to featured status since then, and our standards are a lot higher. But we've also gained a whole lot more stubs to expand, in that time, as well. To see the expansion process in action, look how long it has already taken some articles to be expanded. North Asia took almost five years to expand beyond a 2 sentence stub, for example. That is the sort of timescale that we have to expect on a project written by unpaid volunteers.
Today's expansions have included Spoiled brat ( AfD discussion), which has languished in random-collection-of-occurrences-in-fiction hell since May 2005, making it almost as old as this article. Loaded language ( AfD discussion), similarly, has been around since May 2003. An administrator hitting a delete button wasn't any part of the solution to either of their problems. Uncle G ( talk) 20:48, 16 October 2008 (UTC) reply
The result was keep per WP:SNOW. (non-administrative closure) – RyanCross ( talk) 07:42, 19 October 2008 (UTC) reply
cliché is a dictionary subject. The Wikipedia page Cliché has existed since April 2005 when it was first created by an IP address, and it has not developed as an encyclopaedia article. It is time to hit it on the head (see Wikipedia is not a dictionary). Philip Baird Shearer ( talk) 18:59, 15 October 2008 (UTC) reply
But deletion isn't the answer. Our policy is to keep stubs that have potential for expansion. Back when Wikipedia first started, the thinking was that these stubs would eventually be expanded, and that is still as true today as it was then. True, we've raised a lot of articles to featured status since then, and our standards are a lot higher. But we've also gained a whole lot more stubs to expand, in that time, as well. To see the expansion process in action, look how long it has already taken some articles to be expanded. North Asia took almost five years to expand beyond a 2 sentence stub, for example. That is the sort of timescale that we have to expect on a project written by unpaid volunteers.
Today's expansions have included Spoiled brat ( AfD discussion), which has languished in random-collection-of-occurrences-in-fiction hell since May 2005, making it almost as old as this article. Loaded language ( AfD discussion), similarly, has been around since May 2003. An administrator hitting a delete button wasn't any part of the solution to either of their problems. Uncle G ( talk) 20:48, 16 October 2008 (UTC) reply