Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of English words containing the prefix, iso-

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The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 07:48, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

List of English words containing the prefix, iso-

This is a list of words with no analysis. But Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Lists of English words of Greek and Latin origin have recently been deleted or radically reworked to remove the 'list' aspect. What's more, this list is apparently not even human-generated: it is a list of words beginning with 'iso-', some of which are not related to the Greek prefix 'iso-' (e.g. Wiktionary:isolate < Latin insula). --Macrakis 16:39, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Whereas Wiktionary is a dictionary, where articles have derived terms sections for exactly this sort of stuff. No need to transwiki. There's nothing useful here. Wiktionary already has Wiktionary:iso-#Derived_terms, which was created from scratch. Delete. And don't allow the content back into iso-, either. Uncle G 20:35, 2005 Mar 26 (UTC)
• Delete. Not useful. RickK 00:59, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)
• There are a lot of similar lists on WP. For instance, List of -isms, List of -ographies, List of -ologies, List of -onyms, see Template:Table_suffixes for more. There's even List of Dacian words (Romanian words that come from Dacian, translated into English). I'm not saying these should all be deleted wholesale, but it makes me wonder where we draw the line between Wikipedia and Wiktionary in this area.--Dmcdevit 01:28, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • There are lots of dictionaries in Wikipedia that should go. Wiktionary does a far better job of being a dictionary than Wikipedia does. (I could expound at length, and will when I have the time. I'm busy helping with the effort to clean out the 1000 entries in Category:Copy to Wiktionary at the moment, though.) In all of the cases there either is already, or can easily be, an equivalent or better in Wiktionary. For this article, see Wiktionary:iso-#Derived_terms; and for List of Dacian words see Wiktionary:Category:Dacian derivations. Uncle G 03:03, 2005 Mar 27 (UTC)
• Concur with UncleG, and delete. Radiant_* 08:42, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. What UncleG said. Jayjg ^(talk) 10:19, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. A link to the Wiktionary iso- list from iso- should be more than sufficient. -Sean Curtin 05:51, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

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