Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of English given names 2


 * 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, already transwikied to Wiktionary. --Core desat  16:34, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

List of English given names

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WP:WINAD. This article is merely a list of names belonging to a language (i.e. a word list) with no prose or explanatory text or encyclopedic purpose. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. This is the kind of thing that Wiktionary is made for, and so it has been transwikied to Wiktionary and may now be deleted. It is now at wikt:Appendix:English given names. See precedent at, for example, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of first names, Articles for deletion/List of given names by language, Articles for deletion/List of East African given names, Articles for deletion/List of Vietnamese given names, Articles for deletion/List of Slavic given names, Articles for deletion/List of Zulu first names, Articles for deletion/List of Persian given names, Articles for deletion/List of Zazaki given names, Articles for deletion/List of Hungarian given names, Articles for deletion/List of the most common Russian names etc. Deletion after transwiki is standard procedure. Delete. Dmcdevit·t 00:42, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete all these lists per nom and per WP:NOT. Just as well it excludes all names borrowed from other languages, but that is nebulous and hard to draw demarcations. Admittedly, it survived AfD once before, but consensus can change. It's all been said before, so there's not all that much more to add. Ohconfucius 03:15, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:NOT; same for all these lists of given names. — Tuvok[T@lk/Improve me] 06:05, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete unmaintainable, not the job of an encyclopaedia. Guy (Help!) 08:06, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom Fundamental Dan 17:23, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Transwiki Very useful, but not right for the wikipedia encyclopedia as-is. - Denny 00:27, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to WikiBooks. There are loads of books on names, and books on choosing a name are popular. These articles would make good foundations for WikiBooks on names. Fg2 01:55, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Transwiki per Fg2. This is not useful for an encyclopaedia, but it would work for WikiBooks. Chairman S. Talk  Contribs  00:09, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Transwiki Useful for WikiBooks, not for here.  S h a r k f a c e  2 1 7  05:39, 11 February 2007 (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.