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As much as I don't like saying it, the meaning isn't that transparent to an English speaker. Is a wind that comes from the north, or that is traveling north? Perhaps this could be handled as a usage note at wind to avoid having west-south-west wind et al. Mglovesfun (talk) 00:16, 6 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
Keep. This relentless determination to break all our entries down to the smallest possible units is totally counter-productive. The north wind is a single specific concept in cultures across the world; it is personified, it is conceived of as one thing. And on a point of historical information, it's not necessary formed from (deprecated template usage)north + (deprecated template usage)wind in the way that getting rid of this entry would imply. The north is probably adverbial; this probably came into English as a single phrase and (like Dutch (deprecated template usage)noordwind, German (deprecated template usage)Nordwind) is attested at the earliest possible stage of the language. Even the definition is not obvious; and this is hardly a "meteorological" term as the (deprecated template usage)north entry implies. Ƿidsiþ18:12, 6 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
Keep. The definition of "north" used in the SOP allegation is this: "Of wind, from the north". See also Talk:free variable. Adding to "red" the definition "Of a dwarf star, small and relatively cool one of the main sequence" does not make "red dwarf" a semantic sum of parts. --Dan Polansky21:10, 6 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
Delete The logic of directions applied to various geographic, geological, meteorological, and navigational entities should not require lexical treatment at each point of the compass rose (4, 8, 16?) for each collocating noun (eg, "drift", "face", "wind", "current", "heading", "course", "bearing"). This seems like yet another example of something better covered by a construction-grammar appendix linked to from the various nouns and the compass point names rather than each individual collocation. Such an appendix would allow for discussion of the means of communicating more precise compass directions ("3 degree, 50 minutes, 35 seconds west of North") and other modes of communicating direction. DCDuringTALK22:22, 6 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
Even if this is no more than sum-of-parts, I would keep it for no reason other than it's by far the most common collocation for north in this sense. We tend to go either way on these, usually deleting but with some big exceptions. Anyways, Widsith has some very good contributing evidence to this case. DAVilla16:13, 7 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
