Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lawshall (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. Malcolmxl5 (talk) 00:46, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Lawshall (disambiguation)

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This is not a valid dab, it has a link to the place Lawshall and then several places etc within the area of Lawshall - barely even WP:PTMs. They can be mentioned in the Lawshall article if appropriate. Boleyn (talk) 09:31, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Baby miss  fortune 13:56, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of England-related deletion discussions. Baby miss  fortune 13:57, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

The Lawshall (disambiguation) has provided an index for the last six years. It is this sort of pettiness that forced my decision to withdraw from Wikipedia. Up to 10 hours a day I used to spend on articles like these. My withdrawal is yours and the Wikipedia community's loss. If you really care you would of course provide a substitute index. League Octopus 19:07, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete, nothing here is actually ambiguous. This is a misunderstanding of what a disambiguation is. That no one noticed it's existence for six years or more still doesn't make it a valid disambiguation page. You might try moving it to a title like list of things associated with Lawshall, but such list articles have typically fared poorly at AfD. older ≠ wiser 19:28, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete: nothing here is ambiguous. Every single item is linked from within the article on the village, Lawshall, so no navigation is lost by deleting this page. Dab pages are not "indexes" of items relating to a topic, but listings of potentially ambiguous titles. (And I've added a "See also" at Laws Hall to provide a link to the village from anyone confused in that way). There could reasonably be a category Category:Lawshall, or a template (with sections for "Notable buildings", "historic sites", "settlements", "hamlets in the parish" perhaps) but not a dab page. Pam  D  20:20, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * OK, as a challenge to my minimal template-creation skills (and as a way of procrastinating on this evening's Real Life plans like boring paperwork) I've put together Lawshall and added it to Lawshall. Feel free to tweak it and then to add it to all the other articles. Navbox templates like this are designed to provide an index to a group of articles related to each other and to an overall topic: disambiguation pages are something different. Pam  D  21:04, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
 * To User:League Octopus, what User:PamD has done is a kindness. Lawshall is a navigation template which can be placed on each of the articles that it indexes.  This seems to fully respond to your request that someone creates a substitute index.  All's well that ... --Doncram (talk) 08:32, 15 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete.  I don't often support deletion of disambiguation pages.  But some internet browsing yields no alternative meanings for term "Lawshall"; there's no immediate prospect of disambiguation being needed. --Doncram (talk) 17:49, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * For the record, the page's links are:
 * All Saints Church, Lawshall - a church in The Street, Lawshall.
 * Bury Road, Lawshall - a linear settlement in the parish of Lawshall and partly within the parish of Bradfield Combust with Stanningfield.
 * Lambs Lane, Lawshall - a nuclear settlement, including The Glebe, in the parish of Lawshall.
 * Lawshall Green - a hamlet in the parish of Lawshall.
 * Lawshall Hall - a former manor house in The Street, Lawshall.
 * The Street, Lawshall - a linear settlement, that forms the historic core, in the parish of Lawshall.
 * See also links:
 * Audley End - a hamlet in the parish of Lawshall.
 * Coldham Cottage - Church of Our Lady Immaculate and St Joseph in Bury Road, Lawshall
 * Coldham Hall - a large Tudor country house with accompanying estate partly in the parish of Lawshall.
 * Frithy Wood - an ancient woodland and a designated SSSI in the parish of Lawshall.
 * Green Light Trust - a Lawshall based environmental and educational charity that promotes 'hands-on' learning and the growing of community woodlands.
 * Hanningfield Green - a hamlet in the parish of Lawshall.
 * Harrow Green - a hamlet in the parish of Lawshall.
 * Hart's Green - a hamlet in the parish of Lawshall.
 * Hibb's Green - a hamlet in the parish of Lawshall.
 * The Warbanks - a historical site partly in the parish of Lawshall and partly within the parishes of Cockfield and Shimpling.
 * I understand these are all covered in the navigation template which has been created, which is indeed an appropriate index of Lawshall-related topics. --Doncram (talk) 17:49, 17 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Delete. This was clearly created by an editor who doesn't understand what disambiguation pages are. It isn't one. -- Necrothesp (talk) 12:20, 18 January 2018 (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.