Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gabrielle Roy (disambiguation)


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The result was delete -- JHunterJ (talk) 15:58, 7 December 2020 (UTC)

Gabrielle Roy (disambiguation)

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Unnecessary and misconceived disambiguation page. The purpose of a dab page is not to list every article that might happen to have a word, name or phrase embedded inside a longer title -- it is solely to funnel readers to the correct choice among pages that could potentially have collided at the same title. In other words, a dab page is only useful if there are multiple pages that could have been given the exact title "Gabrielle Roy". But the topics listed here are not other Gabrielle Roys of lesser notability than the Canadian writer, but schools named after the Canadian writer -- so their names aren't "Gabrielle Roy", but "École Gabrielle-Roy" or "Collège Gabrielle-Roy". And on top of the fact that this isn't what a dab page is for, most of the links are not actually leading to articles about said schools, but to articles about the cities or neighbourhoods that said schools are in (or in one case the public transit service that operates a bus line that the school is on). So this isn't even really dabbing things named "École Gabrielle-Roy" either, but things named "Châteauguay", "Boisbriand", "Bonnie Doon" and "Société de transport de l'Outaouais". And for the icing on the cake, all of the schools named after her are already listed in the "schools in her name" section of her main biographical article anyway -- which means that even if this did have anything to do with what disambiguation pages are meant for, it would still be completely redundant because a person who was actually looking for a list of the schools named after Gabrielle Roy can already find them listed in the main page as it is. Bearcat (talk) 19:50, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:50, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Canada-related deletion discussions. Bearcat (talk) 19:50, 30 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete All WP:PTM except for the base title. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 05:43, 4 December 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.