Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chip on shoulder
To those who think that this article should be kept: that's not the way an encyclopedia works.  Encyclopedias are lists of subjects or concepts.  The ''concept'' of "a chip on one's shoulder" is identical to the concept of "grievance", therefore, if anything, it should exist merely as a redirect to that page.  The only ways in which "chip on one's shoulder" ''differs'' from "grievance" are those ways that are captured by a dictionary (|NOT an encyclopedia), namely: pronunciation, spelling, etymology, and usage. Whereas some idioms need to be in Wikipedia because they represent unique concepts unto themselves (e.g., I would argue that "apples and oranges" represents a particular example of incommensurability for which there seems to be no other good term), "chip on one's shoulder" is not such an example. Another good reason for keeping a word or idiom is its actual historical impact ''qua'' term, as in the case of "mokusatsu". "Chip on one's shoulder" does not meet this criterion either, and it should be deleted.  (One way I could see this article being revived is by making it about the actual ''practice'' of placing a chip on one's shoulder, but that seems non-notable and unlikely to expand beyond a stub, and it is probably better handled in the etymology section of a dictionary
— User:Bueller, 06:46, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
Stance: comment
Cited policy: WP:DICTIONARY (Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not a dictionary)