Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chalkface

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The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 13:43, 12 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Chalkface

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Apparently a well-known British neologism, but I don't think it can get much farther than WP:DICDEF. Mr. Guye (talk) 01:18, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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~~(Weak?)~~ Delete. The article is, on it's face, a dictionary definition, as it offers three definitions of a single word. I don't believe that "working at the chalkface" to mean "working in education" rises to any level of notability, so keeping that would constitute an unnecessary fork from, e.g. Teacher. My only question – and thus the tentative weakness of my !vote – is whether the literal "cliff or quarry exposing chalk" idea is notable and not already covered elsewhere. Cnilep (talk) 23:33, 24 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Per MB, the literal sense is treated at Cliff. I'm therefore striking 'weak' from my earlier !vote. Cnilep (talk) 02:17, 28 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:44, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Undecided The geologic use should Redirect to Cliff, as does Rockface. Cliff already says that the rock exposure can be made of many kinds of rock, including chalk. And it has a photo of the chalk cliffs of Dover. As far as the British usage for school, I had never heard that before and from a world view, it would be useful to have a good explanation. Not sure if there is enough sourceable info to support it though. Googling does reveal it is a very common term. MB 04:12, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:48, 3 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete In theory, the current article would be redirect to Chalkface (TV series) which would include the definition in the current article. That is currently a redlink, however, for good reason: Searching fails to find much more than simple listings that the one-season series existed. I would have thought that there would be significant coverage for a BBC series, but apparently not, and therefore not notable. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 18:34, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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