Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smart alec

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The result of the debate was delete. —Xezbeth 19:08, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

smart alec

This is a dictionary article about an idiom (one that Wiktionary had already had for a month, by the way — see smart aleck), not an encyclopaedia article about smart alecs. (This article was originally created as "smart alec".) It's difficult to see how one can have an (NPOV) encyclopaedia article about smart alecs, moreover; and no sensible place for a redirection to point to springs to mind. (If we had a biography of Alec Hoag, we could redirect there. But we haven't.) Uncle G 01:00, 2005 May 24 (UTC)

• Delete as it is already in wikitionary. --metta, The Sunborn 03:14, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy delete as duplicate material. Geogre 03:28, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, dictionary definition, already in wiktionary. Megan1967 06:42, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Uncle G's opinion that it will not be NPOV rings true. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 06:44, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. --Carnildo 19:23, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
• Delete before someone redirects to Alec Guinness or, even worse, Alec Baldwin. — Phil Welch 06:13, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

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