Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Case knife

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 no consensus. SoWhy 20:52, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Case knife

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Wikipedia is not a dictionary. See WP:NOTDICDEF -- Suntag ☼ 14:15, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

• Weak Delete Searches for "Case knife" online produce a bunch of hits for knives made by W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery Company but little else. If this term is one widely used, and some history or other fleshing out of the article can be provided to show it can be more than a dictionary definition, I will change my vote to Keep but as it stands, I agree with nomination that Wikipedia is not a dictionary and weakly support deletion. Theseeker4 (talk) 14:23, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

• Delete As Theseeker4 says, this is essentially impossible to google. I've never heard of such a thing, especially since it has a perfectly good name already ("table knife"). Lacking any reference, I think there is good reason to believe that this is a hoax. Mangoe (talk) 16:41, 18 November 2008 (UTC) Based on links below I think this might be better handled as a disambig. Mangoe (talk) 21:56, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

• Merge and Redirect to Knife#Knives_as_utensils as an alternative, regional term for "Table Knife", if in fact it actually is.  LinguistAtLarge  18:08, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Comment. WordNet has two definitions for "case knife". One meaning table knife, and the other meaning sheath knife. Should case knife be a disambiguation page?  LinguistAtLarge  18:16, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

• Keep Needs to be referenced and clarified. Dictionary definition #1 indicates case knife is a sheathed knife, which seems to contradict the explanation in the article. But I think the subject would be good to have an encyclopedic entry on. ChildofMidnight (talk) 18:54, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
• Weak Delete as a dictionary definition. "Case knife" has since the early 19th century meant both table knife and sheath knife Webster's Dictionary, 1892. See Dictionary of American Regional English. In the late 19th century to the present it has also meant knives by the Case company. The company itself deserves an article W.R. Case Company, as a notable U.S. firm founded in 1889. The Case knife company is best known for folding knives, although they also make hunting knives and Bowie knives. Edison (talk) 19:58, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
• Comment well then how about a dismbig. page or a mrege with the existing disambig page (so it includes definition as well as the information it already contains)?ChildofMidnight (talk) 20:27, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
• Keep what with the various meanings, there's quite enough to say for a decent article. DGG (talk) 02:08, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

• I think this article should be kept. I am a highschool student and I had to use this article just today to find out what case knife meant. Lower case "case knife" is used in some books, like "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain. The meaning of this word is not commonly known. Therefore I think this article should be kept. 10:32, 19 November 2008

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.