Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Finding water


 * 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 keep. (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 02:11, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

Finding water

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For background, this started life as a Neelix redirect and was brought up at RfD, along with many variants, at Redirects for discussion/Log/2015 November 12. As of right now, the discussion is still open.

While this page attempts to solve that problem, it does so by creating a disambiguation page completely against the relevant guideline, MOS:DAB. Dowsing is the only topic linked there that could be referred to as "Finding water", and none of the others meet the MOS:DABMENTION standard. A water detector may be a device for finding water, but that phrase isn't a likely search term for that topic. We wouldn't redirect Heating food to Microwave oven, or Digging holes to Shovel. This page should revert to a redirect and follow the outcome of the aforementioned RfD. BDD (talk) 20:57, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. BDD (talk) 20:59, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep There's actually a lot more to finding water than the start entries I put in the dab page.  For example it is a crucial survival skill.  It is an important scientific technique in biology.  It is tropism.  It is important for extra-terrestrial colonies.  It is a technique in industry.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:06, 19 November 2015 (UTC).


 * True, but not especially relevant to the validity of this as a disambiguation page. That's more an argument for an article, or information to be incorporated into Water. --BDD (talk) 21:24, 19 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Keep (and reclassify) or rename Methods of finding water. It's not a dab page, but it is a topic that deserves an article ("How Do Hydrologists Locate Groundwater?", "NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars", "How to Find Water (Finding Water in the Wilderness)", etc.). I really don't like the original redirect to Dowsing, as it's only one of several choices (e.g. Jean van de Velde and the 18th hole at the 1999 British Open) . Water is rather long already, so a merge there is probably not worthwhile. (Whatever happens, the same should be done with Water finding.) Clarityfiend (talk) 23:13, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep and wikify it. Not sure how, though. Zezen (talk) 14:48, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep There are obviously reasonable alternatives to deletion such as the original redirect. Also MOS:DAB states "ignore these guidelines if doing so will be more helpful to readers than following them and this seems sensible advice in this case. Andrew D. (talk) 15:33, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Precisely. The RfD should have been allowed to resolve first. --BDD (talk) 16:00, 21 November 2015 (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.