Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of given names 2


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The result was Delete. —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-26 08:24Z 

Lists of given names

 * Note that this is not a renomination. Articles for deletion/Lists of given names was a successful batch nomination of several lists of given names, and this is a nomination of several more.
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WP:WINAD. These article are merely lists of names belonging to a language or culture (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. Recently, all lists of given names have been moved to Wiktionary and deleted; these are, as far as I know, the last remaining ones, which have just been transwikied. Deletion after transwiki is standard procedure. Delete. Dmcdevit·t 19:31, 21 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, etc.
 * Delete Indian given names should be deleted. It is nearly 100 % north-indian names. Does South-India not exist?? The writer of this article do not know south-india obviously. HE/SHE should know her own country. Manzhivago — Manzhivago (talk&#32;• contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Strong Keep/Conditional delete on List of Hebrew names if the transwiki can be cleaned up (see ), otherwise keep. Delete the rest per convention.  -- Black Falcon 01:06, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Question. Will the "Transwiki:" prefix be eventually removed from these article titles (or at least redirects established)? -- Black Falcon 01:06, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure what you mean; the articles are in the "Appendix" namespace according to Wiktionary policy. The Transwiki namespace is just a holding cell so they can be reformatted according to Wiktionary standards before going into the main namespace. Articles are automatically transwikied nto that namespace. As for List of Hebrew names, there's nothing wrong with the transwiki (though it looks messy now), it just hasn't been formatted yet. A Wiktionarian will clean it up in a day or two. Keep in mind though, that whether Wiktionary has it or not has no bearing on whether it is encyclopedic or not, it's just more desirable not to lose the unencyclopedic information entirely. Dmcdevit·t 01:17, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Your first two sentences answered my question, thanks. As for the latter part, I agree that the article should not be in Wikipedia, but that doesn't mean we should delete it without a proper transwiki.  If the transwiki is cleaned up, then all's well and the page should be deleted per convention (note, I've modified my comment).  However, if it cannot be cleaned up (meaning that there is a problem, perhaps with the Hebrew characters), I don't see why the article can't be kept on Wikipedia until a solution is found to the problem.  Cheers, Black Falcon 01:52, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah, yes I agree with you that if an article is worthy of transwiki to somewhere else, we should definitely wait until everything's transferred. I've just seen the argument that it's information used to mean it's encyclopedic too often. The problem with the Hebrew article is pretty simple: all Hebrew letters are templates on Wikipedia, and not on Wiktionary, so they turned into broken linked instead of letters. It just requires some find-and-replace when I get a chance; all the content is there. Dmcdevit·t 03:43, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * OK, then. I have no problem with the articles being removed from Wikipedia (in fact, I'm all for it) as long as the content is preserved somewhere else (in this case, Wiktionary).  Cheers, and thanks for your dedicated efforts to transwiki all of the "List of given names" articles.  -- Black Falcon 05:50, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * See wikt:Appendix:Hebrew given names. Dmcdevit·t 03:50, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the link. I think it's safe to say delete all now.  Cheers, Black Falcon 04:14, 25 February 2007 (UTC)


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