Talk:Point of no return

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Some of this article seems to be just an extended dictionary entry. We don't need to mention that "point of no return" has metaphorical uses, since that is dictionary not encyclopedia information. -- 137.111.13.32 02:27 Nov 1, 2002 (UTC)

(1) What's wrong with, as you call it, an EXTENDED dictionary entry? What's wrong with mentioning metaphorical uses of a word?

(2) Please quote the dictionary/dictionaries where you can find the information given here.

(3) We don't need to mention anything, do we? But if we think along these lines, we'd have to reconsider hundreds of Wikipedia articles. --KF 02:34 Nov 1, 2002 (UTC)

1. Wikipedia is not a dictionary
2. I am not saying all the information is inappropriate -- I am merely arguing that the metaphorical uses should be able to be found in a good dictionary. The aviation sense (and maybe also the orgasm sense) may well belong in an encyclopedia...
3. Well, if an article is a dictionary entry, it should either be expanded into something more or deleted. --137.111.13.32 02:47 Nov 1, 2002 (UTC)

(1) from Wikipedia is not a dictionary: "[...] Moreover, there are plenty of senses of terms that aren't of interest in an encyclopedia. They would be, in a dictionary, but Wikipedia isn't a dictionary. So it makes no sense to describe those other, mere dictionary senses of terms in Wikipedia articles (unless, somehow it is important to describe those senses in order to clarify the main topic of the article)."

(2) Please go find them.

(3) Mrs 137.111.13.32, feel free to expand this article. I have already exhausted my resources, and I'm exhausted myself.

KF 03:30 Nov 1, 2002 (UTC)

Well, there's a specific concept here - that of an irreversible decision (whether real or imaginary), which needs the aviation meaning as background/canonical example. The other meanings are dealt with essentially as disambiguation, which seems reasonable. So no, not just an extended dictionary entry. Martin 21:36, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)