Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/...pedia

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.‎

The result was redirect to Wikt:-pedia. I see clear consensus against the existence of a standalone article, consensus against redirecting to a DAB page on en.wiki, and the few arguments against the cross-wiki redirect are outweighed. Vanamonde93 (talk) 19:53, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

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Wikipedia is not a dictionary. I also can find no sources talking about the term "pedia". {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 15:29, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

• Delete – I also tagged to speedy delete per WP:G1. Svartner (talk) 15:40, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Thanks. I've never done a deletion nomination before and I wasn't sure it met any of the CSD so I did an AfD to be on the safe side. {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 15:43, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

  Agreed with delete. Weird page here Doctorstrange617 (talk) 19:51, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

• Delete This looks to be a straightforward failure of WP:NOTDICT. Nothing suggests that using -pedia as a suffix or word-building ingredient is itself a topic that needs an encyclopedia article, and nobody is searching for "...pedia". Stepwise Continuous Dysfunction (talk) 20:51, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 02:14, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

• Soft redirect to Wiktionary -pedia per nom; unsourced stub. 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 16:13, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

• Agree, it's the most reasonable direction. Legendbird (talk) 11:11, 25 March 2026 (UTC)

Soft redirect per Kepler. Her Pegship (?) 18:27, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

• Why not redirect to Pedia? Hyperbolick (talk) 08:06, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

  Because, that’s a disambiguation page, which means that if ...pedia isn’t kept, it will be removed from the disambiguation page. SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:57, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting for clearer consensus. BD2412 T 15:36, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, BD2412 T 15:36, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

• Support redirecting to Pedia as nominator. {{GearsDatapacks|talk|contribs}} 18:10, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

• Delete for WP:NOTDICT.

Miiversal (talk) 17:46, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

• Delete per Nom: Wikipedia is not a dictionary. It is already covered under Pedia with "an abbreviation of encyclopedia (...pedia)". Redirect seems pointless as who would perform a specific search for "...pedia"? -- Otr500 (talk) 19:24, 2 April 2026 (UTC)
• Delete- to minimize redundancies.Lorraine Crane (talk) 06:28, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

• Soft redirect to -pedia. The ellipse makes the other redirect not make sense.

SenshiSun (talk) 01:47, 4 April 2026 (UTC)

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.