Talk:tantamount to election

Deletion debate
Means tantamount: to election:. --EncycloPetey 05:26, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Retain. Yes, it's an adjective phrase involving a preposition + noun object, but the words defined separately fail to capture that "tantamount to election" is a stock phrase which merits being defined as a unit. Additionally, the phrase as a unit is an outgrowth of the post-Reconstruction one-party Democratic politics of the Solid South and consequently has an etymology as a phrase. Unless you know the definition of the phrase anyway and thus don't need the dictionary, you cannot capture that derivation from the words defined separately. Rammer 05:59, 29 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Didn't make much sense to me. Deleted SemperBlotto 08:13, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
 * If the definition is correct, it doesn't seem to mean tantamount to election. The Wikipedia article of the same name might help us. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:11, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
 * The definition identified the general (and SoP) concept with a particular class of US instantiations of the concept. This is a basic flaw in a definition of the type that seems to characterize many definitions that do not survive.
 * I am interested in accumulating examples of types of flaws in definitions for purposes of Definitions or some associated page. Similarly, examples of types of improvable definitions (eg, unsatisfactory technical definitions, unnecessary hyperspecialization, "An X is when..." definitions (of "X") for Improving definitions. The associated talk pages or the body of the Wiktionary pages would be good places for such things. DCDuring TALK * Holiday Greetings! 16:07, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Err, not restored, no consensus to do so. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:24, 26 April 2010 (UTC)