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The result was delete. Could be Wiktionary, no consensus as to which article to redirect to, but obvious consensus the term does not belong in an encyclopedia (talk→ BWilkins ←track) 10:23, 13 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Purchase specification

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This may go to Wikitionary or bust. TruPepitoM (talk) 11:25, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Not worth an entry in Wikitionary, maning cvered by the individual words.TheLongTone (talk) 11:52, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. ★☆ DUCKISJAMMMY☆★ 12:09, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Requirements specification. This isn't just a definition, it's a component of an engineering process. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:03, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Specification (technical standard), which seems to be the most general article on the topic. I'd vote for all "specification" articles to be merged together there. Borock (talk) 16:47, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You're probably right that Specification (technical standard) is the most general, but by that token it is surely too general for the meaning here. A PS, like a RS, SRS etc, implies a boundary (often contractual, between a purchaser and a supplier) between the specifier and the implementer. Other kinds of spec may just describe e.g. what has been built - one implementer recording what is being or was done to make maintenance or upgrade easier, for the same team or later teams to use, with no boundary implied. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:39, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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