Talk:if possible

RFD discussion: February–November 2020

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if possible

Isn't that just sum-of-parts? — This unsigned comment was added by 2407:7000:982F:D899:B849:D504:9B89:C00B (talk) at 08:33, 18 February 2020 (UTC).

Delete, SOP. Compare if acceptable, if affordable, if available, if doable, ...  --Lambiam 09:56, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Delete. Equinox ◑ 02:21, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Abstain Weak keep as the creator. It's SOP, yes. However, it has idiomatic translations (French autant que faire se peut, or even the word-for-word translation si possible, which is more lexicalised than the English - you can't say *si faisable, *si disponible, etc.), plus it has a lemming. I don't consider these two criteria to be definitive, but they tell me that the entry is mildly useful. Canonicalization (talk) 20:37, 20 February 2020 (UTC)

Delete. Imetsia (talk) 18:24, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Keep: 1) it looks set-phrasey; 2) it has WT:LEMMING: M-W[1]; 3) Canonicalization above reports usefulness for French, and the Czech translation pokud možno is set-phrasey; Czech does not have *pokud přijatelno (if acceptable), *pokud dostupno (if available), etc. --Dan Polansky (talk) 11:31, 6 March 2020 (UTC)

Keep - it is not particularly literal. A person might say "If possible, I would like to go via the cash machine" out of politeness knowing full well that what they are asking for is not impossible. John Cross (talk) 18:45, 8 March 2020 (UTC)

• Keep per John Cross, and per tne lemming principle. Khemehekis (talk) 03:33, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

• Keep - Dentonius (my politics | talk) 13:21, 4 October 2020 (UTC)

Keep as a THUB. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 06:13, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

No consensus, leaning towards consensus to keep. bd2412 T 16:17, 5 November 2020 (UTC)