Deletion of Floruit

Comment: Notability doesn't count if it violates an ISNOT. The notability policy says: "A topic is presumed to merit an article if it meets the general notability guidelines below and ''is not excluded by .''" emphasis mine This topic violates an ISNOT, because it's simply about a word. We have a perfectly acceptable dictionary, and it covers this word perfectly well. You don't keep a dog and bark yourself
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)

Comment: Wikipedia policies do not preclude articles on words. From : "In some cases, a word or phrase itself may be an encyclopedic subject, such as Macedonia (terminology) or truthiness". This is one of those cases. Since 2006 MOS:DOB has indicated that "When the individual is known to have been alive (flourishing) at certain dates, floruit|fl. is used in articles to link to floruit, in case the meaning is not familiar..." As such there are literally ''thousands'' of incoming links. Additionally there is the precedent of the hundreds of other Latin words, and English words of Latin origin, in :Category:Latin words and phrases. Deleting this would be extraordinarily unproductive
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT||WP:DOB)

Comment: We encourage the use of floruit|fl. in  , so it is part of the infrastructure iof Wikipedia. This means that we need the page to exist even if is was not otherwise justified, because it is part of the mechanics of Wikipedia now. We have incorporated the (somewhat musty and quaint) use of "fl." from older reference works, and it is quite useful, but many of our readers will encounter it here first and will not know what it means so the link is highly useful
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:DOB)