Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kerri Lyon (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. The Bushranger One ping only 01:28, 29 July 2012 (UTC)

Kerri Lyon (disambiguation)

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Disambiguation page with two entries, neither of which has an article and the listed pages show no evidence of likely or upcoming notability Stuartyeates (talk) 21:56, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete what is the point of a disambiguation page for a non notable name? Seasider91 (talk) 22:36, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete per above North8000 (talk) 23:10, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 23:18, 21 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete, G6 db-disambig. No Wikipedia ambiguity. -- JHunterJ (talk) 01:02, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I created the page and have no strong opinion either way. I provided two sources for her role with Success Academy Charter Schools by writing them into the redirect page's edit field. One source is not handy to me at the moment because I'm not home but the other refers to her as a spokesperson and probably both do, and usually spokesters are not worth naming in Wikipedia articles. I don't argue that she is notable enough for her own Wikipedia article (maybe she is if she was a news reporter but I don't know) and I don't know if the name is for one person with two organizations or two people. Neither article that now is related to her should, in my opinion, be edited to refer to the other organization. I think there is enough to warrant a redirect to the schools and, in that case, there is a justification to distinguish from NY1 and therefore to disambiguate. Is another solution perhaps available? Nick Levinson (talk) 15:15, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, create articles on at least one of the two. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 17:58, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Since notability is uncertain, is there any way other than writing an article about her to let Wikipedia visitors know that Kerri Lyon of NY1 may be same or different from Kerri Lyon of SA, for whom she is a spokesperson? Nick Levinson (talk) 22:54, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete Despite what Levinson thinks, this is a clear-cut G6 as it's a dead-end dab with only one name. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 17:58, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * A one-destination dab should be redone or made to disappear but it started as a two-destination dab. Nick Levinson (talk) 22:54, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Then why was the other name removed? Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 00:06, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * The editor who deleted the other said "no mention on that article" in the Edit Summary. Nick Levinson (talk) 13:52, 24 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Delete, wikipedia is not a directory. Write the article first and there may be something to consider for disambiguation. older ≠ wiser 11:44, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - There's nothing to disambiguate. -- Whpq (talk) 16:01, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete as a matter of good housekeeping practices. The first article on Kerri Lyon does not exist, why should a disamb exist for articles which do not? ChrisGualtieri (talk) 03:35, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Solved the problem. A news story recently published and which I didn't see until Wednesday reported a significant controversy on Success Academy Charter Schools from which, while editing the article, I named two spokespersons, Kerri Lyon being one. Then I edited the disambiguation page accordingly, and it now points to two destination articles that name her. Since I think it's of some importance that the name may apply to one or two people, I've also posted to the disambiguation page's talk page a proposal to re-add that information to the disambiguation page itself. Nick Levinson (talk) 15:06, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment - I don't see this as being solved. A very very marginal case can be made that redirecting to NY1 although I note that it provides no information other than she was a former reporter or anchor.  But for Success Academy, we simply have a spokesperson.  That role is not significant to the company so why are we sending that reader to the article?  -- Whpq (talk) 21:22, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * It's an attribution for a quotation on a point of controversy, one of only two quotations on point, the other being attributed to a government official, both persons being authoritative (not just bystanders), so that there are two Kerri Lyons (two names for one person or two persons) to sort out. Nick Levinson (talk) 15:21, 28 July 2012 (UTC) (Clarified: 15:52, 28 July 2012 (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.