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The result was redirect to Megadeth per WP:NOTDICT. The keep !vote is credible although somewhat moot as the page history is preserved in the outcome of a redirect. If there is future substance and notability beyond a definition, the article can always be recreated and expanded. (non-admin closure) Bungle ^{(talk • contribs)} 18:58, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Obscure (hypothetical) term/word is non-notable. Possibly redirect to Nuclear Holocaust or just relax to some Megadeth greatest hits. KidAd • SPEAK 07:07, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect: This article is speculative about the term megadeath, and whilst it links to "megadeath". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.), as per nom, it has nothing notable to offer. --Whiteguru (talk) 08:34, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Megadeth as a reasonable misspelling. Fails WP:NOTDICT. Qwaiiplayer (talk) 12:21, 12 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Megadeth. Wikipedia isn’t a dictionary and there’s no need to make a disambig page for such an obscure term. When I saw this in the AfD listing I was initially confused why the Megadeth article was seemingly up for deletion and hadn’t been speedy kept! Dronebogus (talk) 05:37, 14 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. None of the proposed changes are better than the current article at explaining what the term is and where it comes from. --Dystopos (talk) 19:48, 16 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • The article can be used as raw material to improve the barebones Wiktionary entry, as converting it into a redirect won’t lose the original text since it will be in the page history. The problem is that the article doesn’t belong on Wikipedia since the only information it provides is a definition, a usage history, what is basically a padded-out quotation example, and an unsourced section on the even more obscure derivative term “gigadeath”—- in other words, it’s basically just a dictionary definition, and Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Dronebogus (talk) 07:47, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    • That's fine and I hope some Wiktionary editor is mindful to preserve the value from this article. I would point out that there ought to be some claim to notability in that the metal band took its name from the pre-existing concept rather than the term being derived somehow from the name of an influential metal band. --Dystopos (talk) 14:33, 19 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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.