Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ellipsis (figure of speech)

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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 Merge to Elliptical construction. —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-23 08:55Z

[edit] Ellipsis (figure of speech)

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This article is basically a shorter, less precise and less informative version of the newer Elliptical construction article. Also, I believe the title of the article is misleading, since ellipsis as described in the article is not, to my understanding, a 'figure of speech', but a grammatical construction (hence the article Elliptical construction which treats it as such). In addition, the article is being transwikied to wiktionary as a dic-def. Torgo 07:25, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

  • Redirect to elliptical construction, which is a better article on the same topic, or just delete if this search term is too unlikely. GassyGuy 19:49, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge with elliptical construction and redirect. There are parts of this article that may be worth saving, and merging the two would improve the grammatical article's formatting. - Smerdis of Tlön 21:10, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
    • It seems to me that the only thing in this article that is not in Elliptical construction (besides the examples, but the latter article has its own examples for the same things), is the mention of ellipsis in film. However, if anything, I think this short sentence should be added to the Ellipsis article, just to mention it as a different use of the same word. Anyway, it certainly isn't a "figure of speech" (or a grammatical construction) when used in this sense. Torgo 21:19, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect per above. Newyorkbrad 23:27, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge because this has better examples. --Dhartung | Talk 02:52, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.