Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Jewish surnames

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The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS, which defaults to KEEP Paul August &#9742; 01:22, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

List_of_Jewish_surnames
This article is extremely inaccurate and full of errors. It lists names that, while some may have been adopted by Jews, are not Hebrew in origin and are therefore not Jewish surnames. 24.244.239.0 19:16, 18 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep. Um, that's a reason for fixing the list, not for deletion. That said, I would suggest that surnames that are common in the Jewish community *are* Jewish surnames regardless of origin. Take this to the talk page. — Phil Welch 21:23, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to Wiktionary. It's got an entire appendix just for names. - Mgm|(talk) 21:45, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to Wiktionary and delete from Wikipedia. We should, on the other hand, have an article on Jewish names or Jewish onomastics with relevant examples. Uppland 22:02, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki per above. &hearts;purplefeltangel (talk) &hearts; (Contributions) 23:41, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki. --WikiFanaticTalk Contribs 18:53, 18 Sep 2005 (CDT)
 * Delete. Listoholicism. / Peter Isotalo 12:11, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep but move to or merge with an article on Jewish onomastics. The material on this page would be appropriate to have in such an article. -- BD2412 talk 16:50, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - I like the concept of this article, but it should really stick to names associated with Jews, rather than names adopted by Jews which are common in some parts of the world e.g. German names in Anglophone countries. --MacRusgail 20:37, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep unless you remove all similar articles: List of Germanic-speaking cultures surnames, List of Hispanic and Romance-speaking cultures surnames, and List of Eastern European surnames. -- Reinyday, 13:49, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neutralitytalk 21:25, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki as per Uppland's comment. ··gracefool |&#9786; 07:20, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per User:Phil Tintin 10:07, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep --Sheynhertzגעשׁ״ך 15:55, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, I see no relevant reason to delete this list of notable names that serve the purpose in identifying an important part of the roots of Jewish names. I believe this article needs to possibly be cleaned up - the images on it are slightly irrelevant, but the rest of the content I feel is important. Piecraft 20:18, 24 September 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.