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The result was delete. → Call me Hahc 21 05:46, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
Strategic blunder
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Violation of WP:DICDEF: a strategic blunder is just a grave mistake by a strategist, whether military or otherwise, and anyone with knowledge of English can work out the meaning of the phrase.
On the talk page, I suggested reworking this into a list, but actually the See also section doesn't even list strategic mistakes, but simply hazardous situations that occur in warfare. QVVERTYVS ( hm?) 09:42, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
- Reluctant Delete Encyclopedic entries on idioms would include essay-formatted lexical info on the term's origin, meaning, etc.. but also how it's impacted society in some way, and specifically sources about the idiom. Otherwise it's just lexical content. As an example, American (word) is encyclopedic content because of the extensive sources which do not merely document meaning, etymology, etc but go further to discuss the societal implications of the preemptive use of that word by US citizens and the implication that Canadians, for example, are not "American". Those sources discuss (depending on the author's perspective) the arrogance of the US or the insecurity of the non-US in that proprietary usage. They discuss the historical, cultural and even legal complications that have come from the inherent ambiguity of the word. In other words, the sources discuss the impact of the word "American" on the outside world. -- Green C 15:40, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
- Delete. Dictionary definition. (and wrong - not that it matters - in that 'strategy' and 'tactics' are two different things.) AndyTheGrump ( talk) 15:47, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
- Delete. I'm willing to overlook that it conflates strategy and tactics, but this is just a dictionary definition. It's no different than creating an article on "bad idea". NinjaRobotPirate ( talk) 21:16, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 13:40, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
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