The result was keep. Ron Ritzman ( talk) 02:40, 26 February 2011 (UTC) reply
I am nominating this article for deletion based on WP:Wikipedia is not a dictionary. I like this article. It is also on an important and interesting subject. I love words and dictionaries and enjoy browsing through dictionaries to learn new words and more about the meaning and origins of words. What this article is is the result of people going through a dictionary and picking out tidbits and presenting them to us on a plate. Good work and enjoyable to read. However WP is supposed to be an encyclopedia, not a dictionary. An article on the influence of Chinese culture on the West would be vital to an encyclopedia. Also articles on the development of languages and the process of words being adopted by one language from another would be important. But articles on the meaning and origin of single words belong in a dictionary. Taking a number of them and putting them on one page does not change that, it seems to me. Kitfoxxe ( talk) 15:14, 18 February 2011 (UTC) reply
The result was keep. Ron Ritzman ( talk) 02:40, 26 February 2011 (UTC) reply
I am nominating this article for deletion based on WP:Wikipedia is not a dictionary. I like this article. It is also on an important and interesting subject. I love words and dictionaries and enjoy browsing through dictionaries to learn new words and more about the meaning and origins of words. What this article is is the result of people going through a dictionary and picking out tidbits and presenting them to us on a plate. Good work and enjoyable to read. However WP is supposed to be an encyclopedia, not a dictionary. An article on the influence of Chinese culture on the West would be vital to an encyclopedia. Also articles on the development of languages and the process of words being adopted by one language from another would be important. But articles on the meaning and origin of single words belong in a dictionary. Taking a number of them and putting them on one page does not change that, it seems to me. Kitfoxxe ( talk) 15:14, 18 February 2011 (UTC) reply