Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Glen Davis


 * 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. Per WP:DABNAME, disambiguation pages should be located at the main title when there is no common term. (non-admin closure) Alpha_Quadrant    (talk)  03:29, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Glen Davis

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This page is unnecessary: all it does is redirect enquiries typed in as "Glen Davis" to a proper "Glen Davis (disambiguation)" page.

It does not do anything else (and does not need to do even this: users searching for articles that include "Glen Davis" in the title should be taken directly to the Glen Davis (disambiguation) page instead.

Two additional items:

1) The order of the above used to be the reverse (i.e. the "Glen Davis (disambiguation)" page was redirected to the "Glen Davis" page, which acted as a redundant disamibiguation page); I changed it before proposing this page for deletion.

2) The "Glen Davis (disambiguation)" page contains an entry for tje "Glenn Davis (disambiguation)" page, "Glenn", two "n's", as it should. Neither this necessary link nor the latter page will be affected by the proposed deletion. Wikiuser100 (talk) 22:18, 7 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep. First of all this is now a redirect and should've been listed at WP:Rfd not at "articles" for deletion. But formalities aside, copying and pasting content to the (disambiguation) page like you did is not a valid procedure. You should have requested a move over redirect to keep the revision history. That said, Glen Davis has by far the longer revision history of the two and should therefore be kept. It served just fine as a disambiguation (which does not have to be in the page name at all) until your edit. De728631 (talk) 22:29, 7 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Delete Apologies if I am unfamiliar with the nuance between "Delete" and "Move" but your argument is absurd: the page does *nothing*. It's set up as a disambiguation page to do the job of the *actual* "Glen Davis (disambiguation)" page. And what "history" is worth perserving of a *two entry* ersatz disambiguation page?  Fine, move the history to the actual "Glen Davis (disambiguation)" page. Just get rid of a page that adds nothing and only serves to clutter up Wikipedia.Wikiuser100 (talk) 22:51, 7 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep and revert whatever the nominator has done, as it violates WP:DABNAME and, more importantly WP:CC-BY-SA. This was under the correct title before. Pages only need "(disambiguation)" in their titles if there is a main article under the title, which there is not here. This discussion clutters up Wikipedia more than a page that helps readers find what they are looking for. Phil Bridger (talk) 19:56, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Keep and revert changes. As per Phil Bridger, Glen Davis is the correct location for this disambiguation page, as laid out by WP:DABNAME. All changes should be undone and Glen Davis (disambiguation) reinstated as a redirect. Also I should add that Glenn Davis (disambiguation) is a perfectly valid item for this dab, please see WP:MOSDAB which recommends adding likely misspelling and terms which could be potentially confused. France 3470   ( talk ) 23:41, 9 November 2011 (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.