Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Serve

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The result of the debate was disambig. – AB CD 20:29, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Serve

Dictionary definition. I assume it's already in wiktionary, but if anything here is salvageable, transwiki to wiktionary, but most likely, just delete.--Dmcdevit 04:50, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I can imagine several instances in which this might be linked, with several meanings (servant, the tennis technique, etc.) this should be kept as a disambig ,or else redirected to tennis (potentially tennis techniques or something of that nature. Meelar (talk) 05:59, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)
- A disambiguation at serve wouldn't cover servant. Disambiguations are for articles that would (otherwise) share a title. Uncle G 06:14, 2005 Mar 25 (UTC)
  - I can imagine plenty of instances in which articles would link serve with the intent of going to servant. I'm not sure I take such a narrow view of disambigs as you do; they're there to serve the reader. Best, Meelar (talk) 06:16, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)
Wiktionary:serve is far more comprehensive. Take a look. serve appears to be a disambiguation article without any encyclopaedia articles to disambiguate amongst, and hence pointless. It is yet another dictionary entry in the encyclopaedia spawned from a "List of words" dictionary-in-Wikipedia article. And the fact that the dictionary entry in Wiktionary is far better (as is almost always the case) should say it all. A redirect to service won't do the verb justice by a long chalk, and tennis handles the noun. Either {{wi}} this or Delete. Uncle G 06:14, 2005 Mar 25 (UTC)
In the interests of serving the reader, disambig between servant, waiter, web server, tennis etc. Kappa 12:25, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Disambiguate, but move to a name with (disambiguation) in the title (ie serving (disambiguation) or service (disambiguation)), and then redirect serve to service. -Sean Curtin 02:31, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)
It's a dictionary definition and not a particularly good one. As Uncle G said above, wikt:serve is much better. I was going to say that we should update any links to point to the Wiktionary definition but then I noticed that only List of English words of Etruscan origin links here. Delete. Rossami (talk) 07:20, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Delete. wiktionary is good enough for me. This article doesn't belong in an encyclopedia. Feco 08:19, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
As Wiktionary:serve is more complete, delete. (It would have been transwiki otherwise.) Alba 23:45, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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