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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 it's getting rather chilly in here, so put your "closed" back on. Krimpet (talk) 12:50, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

List of "closed" articles[edit]

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Another two ridiculous WP:NOT#DIR-violating lists of loosely associated topics which also violate WP:NOT#IINFO. No connection other than they all contain the word "closed". Should not even be turned into a disambiguation page, that would be like adding every single article on Wikipedia that contains the word "night" in the title to Night (disambiguation). This is what the "search" function is for. (Also nominating the related List of "enclosed" articles). Masaruemoto 00:20, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete - you mean "list of article loosely involving the word closed". Indiscriminate list, with a trivial inclusion criterion. --Haemo 00:37, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - Oh man this is goofy. --P4k 00:38, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - per all of the above. Eddie 00:42, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Close" this article down (i.e. Delete) - I say we close this AfD rather quickly by closing down this article, which doesn't even come close to following Wikipedia policy. (Oops, wrong "close" there!) --Hnsampat 00:48, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete as per WP:LIST, and defenestrate Hnsampat for punning! =^_^= --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 01:04, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, it's getting WP:NOT in here, so take off all your "closed". --Dhartung | Talk 01:27, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - Couldn't agree more with you, Dhartung. It's almost as goofy as this AfD. Cool Bluetalk to me 01:48, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    The above two posts had me laughing out loud. There was an AFD for pants and I missed it?! —Gaff ταλκ 08:20, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • No-pun-here Delete - end the puns and close it, please!(EDIT: I guess that's a pun, isn't it? Darn!) --tennisman 02:12, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Whoa! Seem to be getting a little delete happy here. List of articles with a similarly named concept is another word for disambiguation page. Just needed a rename. ~ Infrangible 02:32, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Comment This isn't what disambiguaton pages are for at all. Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Lists is clear enough; Lists of articles of which the disambiguated term forms only a part of the article title don't belong here. Masaruemoto 02:49, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, they do--and is what the very meaning of disambiguation (to make less ambiguous) is. See discussions on other AfDs mentioned below. ∞ΣɛÞ² (τ|c) 03:00, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That would be the definition of disambiguate. A Wikipedia disambiguation page follows this, but the purpose is not to arbitrarily disambiguate things that don't need to be disambiguated - for instance, closed source and closed captioned. The only thing they have going is that they are things that are, somehow, "closed", and this is the only way they are associated. Not only is there no ambiguity, comparing the two is like comparing oranges to an offset press. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 03:32, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: Um, this page (as you can see from its history) is a result of a heated debate involving numerous dab pages (Outer, Inner, and Enclosed (disambiguation)). Also, Closed (disambiguation) is what this article redirects too. If you delete these pages, you must delete all other dab pages! ∞ΣɛÞ² (τ|c) 03:00, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete sheesh. Playing semantics games. JJL 03:24, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all—This is not in keeping with the current consensus as to the function of a disambig page. --Paul Erik 04:38, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Coment I shouldn't laugh, but I thought this edit to the article was funny. I'll be serious now. Masaruemoto 05:05, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Speedy Close & Delete per WP:SNOW. No chance in Hell this is going to get kept; it's an indiscriminate list masquerading as a disambiguation. I'd not object to deleting all those related lists Eep pointed out, either. -- Kesh 05:38, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, Snowball, etc. This is getting to the point of disrupting the encyclopedia to make a WP:POINT. —Gaff ταλκ 08:18, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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