Talk:I need a guide

RFD discussion: February–June 2018

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I need a guide

I request undeletion of this phrasebook entry. google books:"I need a guide" phrasebook finds the phrase in multiple phrasebooks. Thus, it should be kept using the lemming heuristic for phrasebook, which says, keep an English phrasebook entry if it is attested and is present in at least three independent phrasebooks. Admission: The heuristic is not part of formal policy, which is in WT:CFI#Idiomaticity, and says "Phrasebook entries are very common expressions that are considered useful to non-native speakers. Although these are included as entries in the dictionary (in the main namespace), they are not usually considered in these terms." --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:00, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Let me note that this never passed a deletion request, from what I can see, so this is the first request for deletion of the entry. --Dan Polansky (talk) 12:08, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Restore as a typical phrasebook phrase. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 12:28, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Restore per Dan Polansky's rationale. --Jan Kameníček (talk) 12:42, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Restore - as per reasoning above. John Cross (talk) 19:18, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Meh. I've grown quite sensitive to the lemming argument, but I still think many of these phrasebook entries are useless, including this one. --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 22:25, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Keep as useful for a (possibly colonial) phrasebook. Ha. I've expressed my feelings about splitting phrasebook out of mainspace before, but that's orthogonal. Equinox ◑ 06:23, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

• Has been deleted --Genecioso (talk) 13:34, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

  @Genecioso: This is an undeletion request, so of course it has been deleted. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 04:33, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Restored. No RFD was followed when deleting, anyway. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:41, 1 June 2018 (UTC)