Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Adjournment

There are some reasonable arguments for keep, but the overwhelming majority of editors want delete, and there seems no reason not to accept this.--Cato 22:37, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Adjournment
Most, if not all, of the quotes on this page appear to simply use the word "adjournment", or refer to the act of adjourning, some at great length. I'm not sure that this is a theme for which a good page could be built; there's very little to be said about the general act of adjournment itself. —LrdChaos (talk) 17:04, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closes: 18:00, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, per nom. I definitely agree that just having a particular word in a number of quotes does really justify the creation of a theme page on that word. Nothing here seems to really about the concept of adjournment (and it is debatable about the need for page on the topic to begin with). ~ UDScott 18:46, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. There's no real theme here; it's more like a concordance. - InvisibleSun 22:39, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 *  Keep I agree  that it could be improved, maybe with an introduction to explain the theme of Adjournment. The act of adjourning is significant because it, postpones, puts an end to some active (a session, a court martial, class, games, etc) or can move the active from one place to anther. A Body(i.e. Congress,a legislature, a club, a class) can adjourn because it is time to  adjourn, out of fear, or as a parliamentary trick. The act of adjourning, especially at end of long legislative session(or the last session of the term) can be emotional (fear, relieve, happiness, sadness, gratitude, etc). There are many themes on Wikiquote -- Kindness, People, War, to Snow, Spoon, Yale University. I believe  there is room for them as well for Adjournment. (p.s I created the theme be before I created my login) --Lookatthis 01:32, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless some rational content limitation is agreed upon. Adjournment of a legislative session and adjournment to the living room are hardly the same class of thing. It's sort of like having an entry on Mercury with a few quotes on astronomy, a few on mythology, and a few on thermometers. BD2412 T 05:45, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I agree that limiting the theme would be useful "adjournment to the living room" is not needed.--Lookatthis 15:18, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete I'm beginning to regret saving Never. This is a reducto ad absurdum of the "Let's find loads of quotes with a common word" article. Poetlister 22:46, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I agree the page need so work wich I done. I added an introduction and remove quotes that do not fit the "theme". I do not agree this is "Let's find loads of quotes with a common word" article. The act of adjourning is significant because it, postpones, puts an end to  legislative active. At --Lookatthis 23:51, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Lookat this has clearly improved it, but not enough. I doubt that it is salvageable.  I'd do it if I could.--Poetlister 14:45, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. This isn't what a theme page is supposed to be, it's just a list of (mostly) insignificant quotes which happen to include the same word. Fys. &#147;Ta fys aym&#148;. 00:08, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment How many of these quotes are really pithy and memorable?--Cato 20:43, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I have moved the long Sine Die Addresses by Charles H Morrison and Linn Boyd to Wikisource. I hope this will improve the "theme"--Lookatthis 22:56, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. I think it's a moderately interesting page, and I found some of the quotes amusing or interesting. I agree it's something of a concordance, but I don't see where WQ policies rule that out. Dictionaries of quotations are often used by writers who are writing on a particular theme and want a quote to precede or kick off the article (or speech or whatever). For that reason, I don't see articles such as this as a waste of space. Furthermore, a number of our theme articles are already concordances. Floccinaucinihilipilification, here since March 2005, seems to be just a list of uses of the word (one of my favorites, I'll admit). Comet, here since July 2005, seems similar. Lookatthis has worked hard on this and I don't think we should shoot him down without a more coherent policy on the subject. --Ubiquity 13:06, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep: I too don't really see why this should be deleted at all. Though organizing by author and work is important and useful for verification of quotes, I personally find quote books organized by themes and words more useful on the whole than those organized by author for actually finding good quotes. Though the theme pages here seem to be generally rather neglected and in poor condition, personally I believe there should be far more of them, not less, and I might try to clean up a few and start a few. I think it a very odd choice for a theme, and some of the quotes were rather long to be included just because they contained "adjourn" in some form, but though I rather doubt there are too many people who are likely to be seeking quotes involving adjournment, if anyone actually does, it will be there for them, and I see no harm in keeping it. ~ Aquarius 13:20, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete This article is obscure, obtuse and pointless. It doesn't belong here. Modernist 12:10, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete I don't like "theme" articles unless it's a very strong idea and i can't see that "adjournment" meets that.--Yehudi 12:44, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I know that the Adjournment "Theme" is "very odd", and "obscure" however I thought that the Wikiprojects was to provide information from the well known to the obscure.  Adjournment in my openion is not some "common word"-- Nurse Ratched use Adjournment to keep from "turn on the television set" for McMurphy- Mr. Smith must get his bill past before "Congress adjourns"-- James Garfield  and Will Rogers are happy to see Congress adjourn because it is for best--- Abraham Davenport is against "an adjournment" because of duty.  I trying to make the theme work,  I have sourced the quote  added an introduction and remove quotes that do not fit the "theme", I have moved the long Sine Die Addresses by Charles H Morrison and Linn Boyd to Wikisource. More can be done to improve maybe we can Merge it with a page on "parliamentary procedure". I know that the quotes are not use in (__) number works but please do not say that the Adjournment "Theme" or quotes are "insignificant", "non-notable", "non-memorable", etc. I did a lot of work in digging up the quotes and it is my hope that will useful for someone, - is the Wikiprojects to provide information from the well known to the obscure, or is Wikiprojects just for pop culture. please do not delete--Lookatthis 00:20, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I just move the page from the ThemesCategory to Law and governmentCategory I hope this helps--Lookatthis 16:47, 3 December 2007 (UTC)