Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shortsword

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 of the debate was keep as a disambiguation page.  Grue  20:34, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Shortsword

Dictionary definition. Delete or transkwiki to wikctionary. Paolo Liberatore (Talk) 21:07, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

• Redirect to Gladius, which is the proper name of what D&D players call a Shortsword. --Kgf0 21:26, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect per Kgf0. I think the word "Shortsword" is an invention of 20th century RPG and video game developers. At any rate it's a plausible search term. --W.marsh 21:34, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
• Disambiguate between Gladius and weapons in Dungeons and Dragons. Kappa 00:46, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment; can you clarify? The article Weapons in Dungeons and Dragons currently does not exists. Do you suggest that shortsword should disambiguate between gladius and dungeons and dragons, right? Paolo Liberatore (Talk) 01:30, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment it seems that the term “shortsword” is also used in the content of traditional Japanese weapons. However, this term is only used in Wikipedia in the article Miyamoto Musashi. Paolo Liberatore (Talk) 01:40, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
• Redirect to Sword. Gladius wasn't the only type of "short sword". — RJH 17:51, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
• COMMENT I have rewritten the page. 132.205.45.148 17:56, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Could someone who knows how to make dab pages turn the article written by the anon (good job, anon!) into a proper dab page? - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 00:57, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
• Comment; 132.205.45.148 (talk · contribs) turned a dictdef into a useful disambiguation page. I invite this contributor to register as a user here.
  The page here requires some research, not just reformatting the page. For example, shortsword seems to have rarely been used as a synonym for "Sword bayonet" (43 hits on Google for "Sword bayonet"+shortsword which may also due to mistakes since "Sword bayonet"+"short sword" get 2.130 hits), while the term appear more common in the context of RPG and Japanese weapon.
  I will write a something today, but I please invite 132.205.45.148 (talk · contribs) and the other people involved in this discussion to check what I am writing, because I am in no way an expert in this field. Paolo Liberatore (Talk) 11:14, 11 November 2005 (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.