Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eric Winter (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 Speedy G6 by Secret. Non-admin closure. Tevildo (talk) 19:59, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

Eric Winter (disambiguation)

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Delete. Appears there is a clear primary, by page views actor has 11564 to illustrator's 34. Illustrator's article also has an orphan tag. Per MOS:DAB,  The recommended practice in these situations is to place a hatnote on the primary topic article to link directly to the secondary topic Boleyn3 (talk) 15:32, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Was nominated via {db-disambig} and prod; removed, reason given Page views are not necessarily a reliable measure of primary topic. This editor (, aka aka ) appears to be on a mission to delete dab pages, but is not doing sufficient checks (see User_talk:Boleyn. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 16:37, 14 November 2009 (UTC) Comment I feel that's a bit unnecessary. I've clearly looked into this and have given my reasons in my nomination. I am not on a mission to delete dabs - I've created hundreds of dabs and give a lot of my time to that. What I am doing with this, is nominating a useless page for deletion, which does nothing but clutter. Boleyn3 (talk) 19:04, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose deletion. Dab page does no harm, and serves the useful maintenance purpose of generating an entry in Category:Human name disambiguation pages. Dab pages may also need to be expanded in the future, and no useful purpose is served by deleting them.
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete (missing step 3). It is listed now. DumbBOT (talk) 13:55, 16 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:DAB, since Eric Winter appears to constitute a primary topic from both pageview and Ghit arguments. I don't see why generating an entry in Category:Human name disambiguation pages is useful if there wouldn't otherwise be any such DAB page. WP:DAB doesn't explain why that would be desirable either. BrownHairedGirl, would you like to elaborate? As for 'Dab pages may also need to be expanded in the future', it's a fairly trivial matter to recreate one. Olaf Davis (talk) 20:23, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Changed to neutral per Bfigura below.


 * Keep nominator is actually incorrect: it isn't policy to necessarily delete such a DAB. Please see WP:2DAB, which basically says you can keep the DAB (in this exact sort of case). The fact that there's a primary topic would be grounds for removing the DAB if it was at Eric Winter, but it isn't. Not that I think this is completely clear-cut, but here we gain nothing by deletion, and gain a bit of ease of adding new Eric Winter articles (should we need to). -- B figura (talk) 00:00, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Good point, Bfigura. I'm no longer really convinced either way... Olaf Davis (talk) 09:42, 17 November 2009 (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.