Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/0 series


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was speedy keep/nomination withdrawn. An additional bluelink, albeit one that's a redirect to a subtopic of a related article, has been added, so after conferring with the other participant,, I am withdrawing my nomination as "speedy keep," without prejudice, as is the case with all deletion discussions, to nomination in the future. Thank you to Matthiaspaul for their participation and for the good-faith and camaraderie. (non-admin closure) Doug Mehus T · C  01:22, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

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Unnecessary disambiguation page with only two articles extant to Wikipedia, per WP:TWODABS, and Zero batch is almost certainly the primary topic of the two, so I propose redirect-ing to Zero batch Pre-production (disambiguation), with hatnotes each of Zero batch Pre-production (disambiguation) and 0 Series Shinkansen. Amended nomination following comment from Toughpigs below --Doug Mehus T · C  21:39, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Film-related deletion discussions. Doug Mehus  T · C  21:39, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Doug Mehus  T · C  21:39, 14 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Comment: Also note that Zero batch is itself a disambiguation page. -- Toughpigs (talk) 21:41, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Oh, good point, and I even had greenlinks enabled in "Gadgets." I'll revise my nomination. Doug Mehus T · C  21:56, 14 February 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep as disambiguation page. While there are only two entries at present it is easy to foresee that there will be more "0 series" topics in the future, and without a clear primary topic. Also, this disambiguation page is part of a network of crosslinked disambiguation pages of the "* series" type per See also links to aid user navigation. I would hate to see this already set up infrastructure destroyed just because of a too narrow interpretation of WP:TWODABS. I agree, however, that the piped link zero batch should be changed to a redirect to pre-production (at least until we find a better redirect target). --Matthiaspaul (talk) 23:53, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Applied the link change to zero batch for now. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 23:57, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , I would hardly say a specific model of a Japanese bullet train is primary topic. Primary topic only refers to articles we have on Wikipedia, not potential targets. If and when additional potential targets emerge, we can re-convert the redirect to a disambiguation page, and you'll still have article creation credit. Plus, per WP:DABPIPE, though, are we even alowed to pipe dablinks? Doug Mehus T · C  23:59, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Note, too, that "no infrastructure" is being destroyed. When additional targets present themselves, we can revert it back to an earlier revision as a disambiguation page. I'm not proposing deletion, which, I realize, is unusual at AfD. Doug Mehus T · C  00:01, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Will you consider amending your !vote above, now that the related 0 series redirects have been retargeted? Simply use surrounding your !vote, and then re-vote below. Note, too, that we would had a hatnote on each of the pages, and when this disambiguation page has more than the two extant Wikipedia articles to link to, we can convert it back to a disambiguation page. No deletion would occur. As such, if you were to change your !vote, I can withdraw this early as a speedy redirect/nomination withdrawn. Doug Mehus  T · C  23:55, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks for asking, but after rechecking the pages I still think that it should remain as disambiguation page. You will see, there will be even more entries in the future, and it would become impractical to maintain this through bunches of crosslinks on each of the target pages. That's exactly the purpose of disambiguation pages. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 00:22, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , Okay, fair enough. I will close as speedy keep/nomination withdrawn then, without prejudice to renomination in the future, of course. Doug Mehus T · C  01:20, 22 February 2020 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.