Talk:Deputy

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gaynal

I worked my way through all the What links here articles, unlinking all the uses of deputy that were just adjectives. That got rid of about half of them. I'm at a loss where to proceed after this. Most of the remaining uses are deputy in the sense of legislator. Either there should be a Deputy (legislator) article, or all those should just get unlinked too, but I'm not sure which makes more sense. I don't know what such an article would say beyond just a dicdef. --RoySmith 13:44, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Is it reasonable to take the Deputy links and point them to [1] instead? At least the dicdef there gives the base meaning of a substitute empowered to act in one's name. That solves the Wikipedia is not a dictionary argument even if it does take them out of the Wikipedia namespace. --Syrthiss 13:57, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

I can see the advantage of pointing to wiktionary, but I don't think it is easily maintained (editors won't be bothered) and we will back here next year fixing up another 200 links. Considering the three meagre entires on this dab, is it going to be deleted and if so where will "Deputy" direct to?--Commander Keane 16:41, September 9, 2005 (UTC)