Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of abbreviations for names


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The result was Delete. —Quarl (talk) 2007-03-01 07:53Z 

List of abbreviations for names

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WP:WINAD. This article is merely a list of names and how to abbreviate them (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 they have been transwikied to Wiktionary and may now be deleted. There is strong precedent for this kind of deletion; recently, all lists of given names have been moved to Wiktionary and deleted. Deletion after transwiki is standard procedure. Delete. Dmcdevit·t 05:02, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 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, Articles for deletion/List of Lithuanian given names‎, Articles for deletion/List of French given names, Articles for deletion/List of Armenian given names 2, Articles for deletion/List of Portuguese given names, Articles for deletion/List of Roman praenomina, Articles for deletion/List of Modern Greek given names, Articles for deletion/List of Spanish given names Articles for deletion/List of Swedish given names, Articles for deletion/List of Latvian given names, Articles for deletion/List of Romanian given names, Articles for deletion/List of Irish given names, Articles for deletion/List of Italian given names, Articles for deletion/List of Kurdish given names, Articles for deletion/Lists of given names, Articles for deletion/List of Hispanic surnames, Articles for deletion/Lists of hypocoristics, Articles for deletion/Lists of surnames, Articles for deletion/List of counterparts of given names, etc.


 * Delete. Clear violation of WP:WINAD. Sr13 (T|C) Editor review 05:38, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete article lacks any genuine information, even such basics as the superscript writing of non-inital letters, regionalistic variances, etc., etc. ThuranX 07:16, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not encyclopedic, and already transwikied. A Train take the 16:33, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as transwikied. And unless this is somehow sourced, I would recommend deleting from Wiktionary as well.  Who's to say that "Henry" should be abbreviated "Hy." rather than "Hen." while "Patrick" is abbreviated "Pat." instead of "Pck."? -- Black Falcon 21:23, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete WP:WINAD and WP:NOT.--Vbd | (talk) 21:30, 24 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.