Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of surnames 2


 * 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 Delete. —Quarl (talk) 2007-03-01 07:46Z 

Lists of surnames

 * Note that this is not a renomination. The previous set of surname lists were successfully deleted in Articles for deletion/Lists of surnames; these are more that were just transwikied to Wiktionary.
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WP:WINAD. These articles are merely lists of names belonging to a particular 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. 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 09:17, 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 all as indiscriminate lists of information, just like all the other surname lists. -- Chairman S. Talk  Contribs  20:36, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete all per justified transwiki. All content is currently at Category:Surname appendices.  -- Black Falcon 22:05, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete all per nom. Big  top  02:12, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete all. Indiscriminate lists, not suitable for an encyclopedia. utcursch | talk 14:47, 25 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.