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This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was delete. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 14:49, 4 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Almighty dollar

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Dicdef and a pretty nastily POV one at that. Delete. --Angr/comhrá 10:33, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

  • Transwiki to Wiktionary. Non-encylopedic, but I don't see it as so much POV. — JIP | Talk 10:41, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • Please note that this has already been transwikied to Wiktionary and deleted from Wikipedia, once before. See Wiktionary:almighty dollar. Wiktionary doesn't need a second copy. Transwikiing to Wikiquote:Washington Irving is inappropriate, too. This article doesn't contain a quotation. There are thus no transwiki escape routes. Please consider what to do with the article here, in the encyclopaedia. Uncle G 11:19, 2005 Apr 20 (UTC)
      • If it already has been transwikied, then delete. — JIP | Talk 11:21, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • It's a tricky one. There isn't really any such specific concept or thing as the Almighty dollar that warrants an independent article; and redirects to Washington Irving, to dollar, or to monetarism don't seem appropriate. I'm currently at delete. Uncle G 11:19, 2005 Apr 20 (UTC)
  • Keep. Term gets 92,000+ Google hits (not surprising, we've all heard it before), and makes a distinctive, pithy commentary on the American obsession with money. My search also turned up a few books titled with the phrase - Almighty Dollar: A Psychiatrist Looks at Money, by Eugene L. Lowenkopf; Greenback: The Almighty Dollar and the Invention of America, by Jason Goodwin; and Almighty Dollar Bill, by Adrienne Golday and Taylor Barnes. Personally, I'd like to know more about the origins of this term. -- 8^D gab 15:51, 2005 Apr 20 (UTC)
  • Almighty delete —Wahoofive | Talk 18:09, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete; even if the phrase might deserve mention in some other article, there's nothing to warrant a separate article on it, and what is there now is pure trash. RussBlau 19:04, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete not encyclopedic. CDC (talk) 20:48, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Nonsense, bordering on a speedy. 'Almighty Buck' is a well-known term, but 'Almighty Dollar' isn't. David Johnson [T|C] 21:27, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. The phrase (or the related Almighty buck) deserves an article, but this isn't it. --Carnildo 22:55, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • Seems pointless now, but I will note for the edification of David Johnson and Carnildo that "Almighty buck" gets 20,000 Google hits while "Almighty dollar" gets over 90,000. I found three books on Amazon.com with "Almighty dollar" in the title, and none with "Almighty buck." I'm not saying the article is usable as written, but there should be an article on the concept - and Almighty buck should redirect to it. -- 8^D gab 04:20, 2005 Apr 22 (UTC)
  • Delete, not encyclopaedic, bordering on trivial nonsense. Megan1967 04:40, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete unless heavily expanded, and even then, you'll have to convince me that this actually deserves an article. Meelar (talk) 04:41, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete Not encyclopedic Dsmdgold 13:11, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete this waste of bandwidth. Linuxbeak 14:38, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Mackensen (talk) 19:29, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete and purge Wikipedia of pointless articles! Forgotmytea 11:00, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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