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 adeletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result wasredirect toList of words having different meanings in British and American English --Samirधर्म06:02, 29 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

At the moment, it is mostly a duplicate ofList of words having different meanings in British and American English, but is receiving divergent edits. The point of it, AIUI, was to bring together all word usage differences betweenBritish English andAmerican English. However, there are a number of problems:

• At the moment, only the first few rows are in the format being proposed. Apart from this, the effort to turn it into what it was intended to be seems to have abandoned.Promsan, creator of the page, seems to have disappeared (no edits since 28 September 2005).
• It is very long as it stands, and trying to bring together this information would make it even longer and produce little benefit over that already provided by the aforementioned article,List of British English words not used in American English andList of American English words not used in British English.
• The format makes little sense. What's the point of having four columns if only the first two or only the last two are going to be filled in any row?
• It is unclear what one is supposed to do with words that have more than one meaning on the same side of the pond, or meanings common to both sides as well as the different meaning. I can imagine it becoming quite messy.

As such, I feel that we should get rid of this and save the work for the three specialised articles I have mentioned. In the long run, it would be a nightmare to try maintaining this as well. --Smjg19:03, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, I've looked through the article's changes since creation, and merged intoList of words having different meanings in British and American English the one or two changes that I feel need merging in. --Smjg19:05, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Possiblyturn into something like a disambiguation pointing to the other three, rather than actually delete? And that doesn't require an AFD at all. -Jmabel |Talk00:14, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks,Mailer Diablo11:06, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment - Please, pleasedo not encourage adding more to the convoluted nest of disambiguation pages already in existence on Wikipedia as a way of making a decision that should be made per Wikipedia policies/guidelines.GBYork12:05, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete — incomplete and unlikely to be finished, and unnecessary as per nomination. A disambig link isn't needed as the page isn't linked to by many pages, and doesn't have an obvious title (i.e. not something that I expect would be googled).Mike Peel20:04, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge andRedirect, per the nom. Disclosure: I have worked some on theList of words having different meanings in British and American English which is mostly duplicated by the list under afd.Carlossuarez4620:20, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge andRedirect this has been bugging me for some time.Dalf |Talk08:54, 25 August 2006 (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 adeletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.