Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chinatown, Los Angeles (disambiguation)


 * 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   delete. Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 12:29, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Chinatown, Los Angeles (disambiguation)

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Links on page do not meet criteria at WP:DPAGE. There is no need for a disambiguation page under this title. – Dream out loud (talk) 06:29, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment. I'll leave it to the specialists to determine if this is, or could be edited to be, compliant with DAB-page rules, but speaking strictly on a pragmatic basis, I do think it's fair to say that the term "Chinatown", as used in the Los Angeles area, is indeed ambiguous, and most of the links on this page are plausible destinations for someone searching the term. Maybe the general Chinatown (disambiguation) provides enough guidance, maybe it doesn't. --Arxiloxos (talk) 16:07, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:32, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:32, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * The term "Chinatown, Los Angeles" would not refer to articles such as Chinese massacre of 1871 for example. The point of a disambiguation page is not to show related articles by topic, but topics with similar titles. – Dream out loud  (talk) 16:36, 31 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete This is actually a listing of topics which may be related to Chinese settlements in and around Los Angeles; it is not a DAB page by any stretch of the imagination. There are only two article titles which properly belong here, Chinatown, Los Angeles and Chinatown (Los Angeles Metro station), and they do not need disambiguation. --MelanieN (talk) 16:50, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * P.S. I notice that the same (brand-new) user who created this page also created disambiguation pages for half a dozen other major city Chinatowns - and they are just as inappropriate as this one. Somebody ought to take a look at them, and somebody ought to explain to this new user what DAB pages are actually for. --MelanieN (talk) 16:53, 31 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete, utterly fails WP:DABTOPIC, as the uses are not unrelated. Also, as noted above, things on the page like "Chinese massacre of 1871" would not be referred to as "Chinatown, Los Angeles". bd2412  T 13:16, 6 February 2014 (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.