Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of male personal names that end in A


 * 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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was DELETE. &mdash; J I P | Talk 05:42, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

List of male personal names that end in A
I've got nothing against lists when they're useful, but this one isn't. Non-encyclopaedic trivia. Z iggurat 03:11, 28 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete Completely worthless. --Sean Jelly Baby? 03:15, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. &spades;DanMS 03:38, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is based on my belief that only Romance languages reserve the ending -a for female names and feminine nouns or adjectives. At present, this article contains hardly any Latinate names, and what few it does are not sufficiently numerous to justify the existence of the article. If I am wrong, and there are other language groups that tend to reserve the ending -a for female names, I will change my vote. NatusRoma 04:21, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I'm not conversant with the naming systems of all languages, but Japanese, Maori, and Indian languages all contain male names ending in A. Z iggurat  04:55, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Finnish does too. I used to get a lot of confusion when dealing with Anglo-Saxons over the Internet because of my first name. As said by NatusRoma, the article is based on an overgeneralisation of naming customs. &mdash; J I P | Talk 05:14, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. A non-useful list.  If all cultures had -a as a feminine ending (which of course is not so), that would actually probably be the number one topic of discussion in anthropology.--Pharos 04:32, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, per NatusRoma. --Idont Havaname 04:37, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. Presently WP has no article Masculine name or Feminine name. The articles Given name and Personal name do not discuss the "gender" of first names.  As is obvious from the existence of this list, editors have information about masculine and feminine names.  This content should have some kind of home. -Acjelen 05:37, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per NR and Z. Request addition of new content as suggested by Acjelen, not a merge of this unencyclopedic list.  In some language groups this (naming conventions by gender, not -a in particular) is a minor topic that people such as the list's author assume to be standards.  The general topic just barely has enough cultural significance to be in WP rather than a Wiktionary article; the list doesn't.  Barno 05:54, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete totally useless. I also don't think that wikipedia really needs a comprehensive list of first names (this would be difficult to maintain, and pretty much useless). alf 08:02, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, dangerous precedent, imagine two sets of twentysix of these (including female names ending with 'X' ofcourse... Usrnme h8er 08:51, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Mmmm, Beatrix the Dominatrix. Barno 14:19, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I honestly can't see anyone really needing anything like this...minutiae.--Jt 14:00, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Not only is this listcruft, it's completely unmanageable and worthless in terms of actual use. No one is going to miss this utterly pointless not-worth-calling-an-article. --Blackcap | talk 15:47, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as hopeless listcruft. MCB 17:50, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * weak rename This has potential, but the name is a little ethnocentric...Roodog2k (talk) 19:45, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't see the point. Unmaintainable. Anyone could make up a name out of thin air, made up of random letters except for an A at the end and put it here. "Dangerous" precident if kept. 23skidoo 03:43, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No point in having this kind of list. Sjakkalle (Check!)  06:46, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. Actually I have a need for such a list, masculine given names on "a-" (not the other twentyfive). However, I am not at all sure as to its reliability, completeness, or where it should be placed. Brya 07:36, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Pointless listcruft, unreliable, nearly unverifiable, and utterly ethnocentric (as masculine names ending in A are only rare in Western society, says Akira). Proto t c 15:07, 29 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.