Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of the most common Russian names


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The result was delete. —Doug Bell talk 23:17, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

List of the most common Russian 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 (see wikt:Appendix:Russian given names) and may now be deleted. 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, etc. Deletion after transwiki is standard procedure. Delete. Dmcdevit·t 23:26, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. MER-C 02:07, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Honestly, anyone can name anyone anything and a list based merely on a language is rather arbitrary. I can name my son "Cupboard aquarium baseball". In addition, the addition of "common" to the title muddles the scope and reach of this list. Who determines what's common and what's not? Ivan probably is, Balabaduversky might not...but I don't speak Russian, so where's the line? Shrumster 05:25, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. --MaNeMeBasat 17:51, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Edeans 20:10, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete because there are no reliable sources for the assertion that these are common names. If a Russian magazine or vital statistics department announced the most common baby names in Russia, and if the list were published somewhere reliable, an article could be created referencing that (as I suspect has been done with the most popular American baby names). But there are no references in this article to reliable sources. (Note: This is not a "list of Russian names" but a list of "common Russian names". It's therefore a bit different than the other AfDs because it seems to refer to a specific subset of names only, so in my opinion the "cupboard aquarium baseball" argument doesn't really apply.) -- Charlene 21:18, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Make a category for the name pages themselves if anything (like Category:German given names). - grubber 01:08, 4 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.