Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Door stop

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The result of the debate was keep. Joyous 01:43, Feb 2, 2005 (UTC)

Door stop

And another dicdef. -R. fiend 04:13, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Strong Keep - It shows promise, and is semi slang, some people might not know what one is. -GregNorc (talk) 01:04, Feb 1, 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Dicdef. JoaoRicardo 06:23, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
(Expanded since above) Keep everyday objects. Kappa 11:19, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Keep. I can imagine this becoming an article (history, images, etc.). Has already been expanded past dic def status. Mgm|^(talk) 11:30, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)
Current article shows enough promise to Keep. Dpbsmith (talk) 13:56, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete. And now a nice contrib tells us it's also the name of a sandwich. (Vanity we love you!) Wa-ou! Soon we'll have picture of old french fries clogging the door, hereupon making up a nice door stop. And how about a car stop article. Hey, don't forget the supermarket troley stop entry! Only IMO. Gtabary 16:03, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- Please explain your use of the word 'vanity' in this context. Kappa 22:43, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  - Sure: Creating an article for the sake of creating an article, without content. Look, I created A article in THE Wikipedia. Am I not nice?. The issue is you let go one dumb entry, and soon you are forced into accepting dumber entries. See, now we have a redirect from doorstoop... Waaaaaaaou! Am impressed. Because one can do it, does not imply it's clever. (Only IMO). Regards. Gtabary 11:16, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- I think the motivation here is the desire to explain things and make them easier to find, rather than impress people. Kappa 17:17, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Keep rescued article. —Korath (Talk) 18:55, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)
Still a mere dicdef. Transwiki to Wiktionary. Rossami (talk) 21:44, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Strong keep. This article has been expanded beyond a mere dictdef. GRider\^talk 00:04, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Weak Keep, could do with more expansion especially on history. Megan1967 01:39, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- At first, my mind boggled. But then I realised that this is Internet after all, so most likely there is someone out there who would have the inclination to write up "The History of Door Stops". Indeed, someone probably already has. Uncle G 15:56, 2005 Jan 28 (UTC)
Keep, but it needs to be cleaned up and expanded --Enigma 02:46, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Keep. Cookiecaper 02:50, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Keep. (And I just redirected doorstop to it.) Samaritan 04:57, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Actually, it's the name of a category of sandwiches. The sandwich reference pushes this over the line from being a dictionary definition to a Weak Keep. Compare Melt sandwich. I can see the possibility of Door stop growing to something like Club sandwich or Tea sandwich. Uncle G 15:56, 2005 Jan 28 (UTC)
Keep, just so that I'll have the pleasure of, someday, seeing the illustrated history of doorstops on Wikipedia. I'm bubbling with anticipation. --Plutor 16:23, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Void comment: At least the vfd makes me have a good laugh, Cheers folks! I immagine your man: "bubble bubble bubble..." Ha ha. :-) Gtabary 19:15, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Keep, not a dicdaf. I'm going to add some more detail to it right now. Pak aran 14:46, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Keep. Seeing how it has expanded in the past day, it looks more like an article. Now if only there was a picture. Riffsyphon1024 20:31, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Keep. Encyclopedic. --JuntungWu 09:32, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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