Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Throat-clear

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The result was keep‎. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 01:18, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Throat-clear

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Throat-clear should be deleted pursuant to WP:Del-Reaso as it is not content suitable for an encyclopedia. WP:DICTIONARY, we are an encyclopedia and not a dictionary. 3/4 of the citations in this article are from sources that de-facto constitute dictionaries, and this article contains barely any notable text besides a dictionary definition. Alexcs114 (talk) 09:20, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Agree, this is an extended DICDEF. Oaktree b (talk) 13:57, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep meets WP:WORDISSUBJECT and there is opportunity to expand the article. For instance, history, movies, illness, psychology. Here is one source for psychology. Lightburst (talk) 14:22, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It certainly needs more work, if it's going to be kept Alexcs114 :) 11:19, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep with a possible move to Throat clearing per WP:COMMONNAME. Throat clearing is a well studied topic on both a biological and psychological level with many hits on scholar. Qwaiiplayer (talk) 14:37, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the Article Rescue Squadron's list of content for rescue consideration. Lightburst (talk) 15:06, 3 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. (I came here from the ARS listing.) I agree with both keep comments above, including the rename to "clearing". This is much more than what the nomination claims, with significance in medicine and literature as well. --Tryptofish (talk) 22:41, 3 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. A mainly medical topic that passes GNG. Also a topic within human communication, as a nonverbal message. Not a dictionary-type page, and not a WORDISSUBJECT topic.—Alalch E. 20:24, 9 June 2023 (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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.