Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of common Chinese surnames in Singapore


 * 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 keep. Note that the arguments to keep in this discussion, and the article itself, are distinctly different from an indiscriminate list of surnames. Therefore, this is not a valid precendent in the AfD for an article that is simply a list of names or surnames from some culture. —Doug Bell talk 02:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

List of common Chinese surnames in Singapore

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Delete as per WP:NOT and WP:WINAD. Wikipedia is not genealogical database and this article has little encyclopedic value. For related discussion, please refer to Articles for deletion/List of common Chinese surnames Niohe 03:27, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination.--Sefringle 05:09, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep List is published by the Singapore government. It has information on how many people specifically in Singapore have the surnames listed, as well as the percentage they comprise of the Chinese population in Singapore.  This information makes the article encyclopedic.  Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 07:18, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * The fact that the article has a source does not make it encyclopedic. A phone directory or a statistical yearbook have sources, but that does not make the encyclopedic.--Niohe 01:48, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * My point is to point out that this isn't some list compiled together by WP editors. The article is not about individual words, but about a researched and published list.  And the population information related to the surnames make the article encyclopedic.  Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 02:15, 20 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep. &mdash; Instantnood 08:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 12:46, 19 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Keep valid statistical list like plenty of others. Just because it's about names doesn't make it a genealogical database. SchmuckyTheCat 20:50, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * This is not a statistical directory.--Niohe 01:48, 20 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Merge to Chinese in Singapore, meets WP:V and it isn't very long so it won't blow up/unbalance that article. As a standalone article, doesn't seem to be of much use for any criteria in WP:LIST. cab 22:34, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge - But I think merging it into List of common Chinese surnames would be better, in which also expands the list, and eliminates possiblities of redudancy. AQu01rius (User &#149; Talk) 23:10, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. Edeans 02:48, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. list is encyclopedic, of general interest, and of value towards understanding the demographic history.--Vsion 05:55, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - Here's yet another deletion nomination that might interest those who have participated in this AfD. Niohe has nominated Template:Chinese name for deletion.  Please comment if you have an opinion on this - Templates_for_deletion/Log/2007_February_21.  Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 02:00, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. skyskraper 10:20, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep as per comments also cited in Articles for deletion/List of common Chinese surnames.--Huaiwei 16:47, 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.