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The result was redirect to Category:stop-gaps. (non-admin closure) MrScorch6200 (talk | ctrb) 15:48, 26 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Dictionary description plus examples. No useful content The Banner talk 15:01, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:35, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:36, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Roll back to the soft redirect to Wikitionary, or else delete (in which case it might become necessary to re-add a soft redirect). This is unsourced, apparently original research about a vaguely defined class of "temporary fixes". Cnilep (talk) 02:02, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Actually, there is no Wiktionary page for "stop-gap measure", though there is wikt:stop-gap. Cnilep (talk) 02:11, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

delete as unsourced random drivel, much of which is pure nonsense, and little possibility of it ever becoming a useful page.NiD.29 (talk) 05:39, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• ADMIT: its my fault for writing this article. I saw the term stop-gap on the Sega 32X page, then looked up meanings for the term, and that one example of an infamous Sega product serving as a "stop gap" until the Sega Saturn's introduction really influenced me to find other meanings to this term. But I still say we KEEEEEEP the page! --Highway 231 (talk) 17:32, 22 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • But ya know, my username was named after the M-231 highway being constructed in Michigan. Come to think of it, since M-231 is being constructed as a two-lane expressway, it possibly means thats a stop-gap until funding is available for it to be a divided highway soon. --Highway 231 (talk) 17:36, 22 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • I change my VOTE from "keep" to REDIRECT, to Category:stop-gaps, since a redirect to a category can be a good way to repurpose an existing page to aid in Wikipedia navigation. --Highway 231 (talk) 17:38, 22 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      • A redirect sounds like a good idea. NiD.29 (talk) 05:29, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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