Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Menu icon


 * 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 speedy keep. I'm not sure how this has been open for over two weeks. Going to post at ANI to clean up the copy-paste merge. (non-admin closure) power~enwiki ( π, ν ) 21:27, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Menu icon

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Unnecessary removal of (more expansive) Hamburger button to replace with Menu icon. Many of the citations even call it "hamburger button," so I fail to see why the name change was needed. Xevus11 (talk) 16:10, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. KCVelaga (talk) 16:19, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. North America1000 17:08, 20 September 2018 (UTC)


 * Speedy keep, request a move if the title is incorrect. (And I agree, for the record, that "hamburger button" is a better title - AfD is just the wrong venue.) Enterprisey (talk!) 18:23, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
 * What would you recommend I do? This user is brand new, but converted a perfectly fine article to write a new one under a worse name about the same subject. I figured i'd just revert the old article and AFD this one. Xevus11 (talk) 01:29, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
 * , probably ask an admin to move it back? Or open a requested move. Enterprisey (talk!) 07:59, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep Menu Icon (the more correct name for the subject). Keep redirect of "Hamburger menu" to Menu Icon.  If you search internet for "Hamburger menu", yes you get lots of hits but that's part of the problem. This is a name that was given by people who didn't know what the correct name for the subject was and it just "stuck" in the popular vernacular. You can also get many hits for the more accurate "Menu Icon".  So keeping the redirect is the fair way to handle this, if user searches wikipedia for "Hamburger Menu" they'll be redirected and it will help them learn the more appropriate and accurate name of the subject.  Also note I copied almost everything from the "Hamburger menu" article - I just edited to remove reference to "Hamburger" as needed. In that sense it wasn't a "removal" and it isn't less expansive. I effectively "moved" the article to the correct title.  I also *added* many references to "Menu Icon" to properly establish the history of the subject, most of which pre-date references to the subject as "hamburger menu".  @Enterprisey I don't know of any "move" that you refer to "request a move if the title is incorrect"  but that's kinda of what I was trying to accomplish here; move the content and keep a redirect in its place.  Ericnoel (talk) 21:50, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I think WP:COMMONNAME may apply here. There's a difference between the topic of "any menu icon at all" (what is that, even? an icon that you click on to get a menu?) and the specific icon that is widely used in contemporary web design, and I think that we should cover only the latter, at the title "Hamburger menu". Enterprisey (talk!) 08:01, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kpg  jhp  jm  16:33, 27 September 2018 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Procedural keep. This is a naming and content dispute. Szzuk (talk) 18:29, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Matt14451 (talk) 20:58, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Procedural keep. This looks like the wrong venue for content/title discussion. I don't see a policy based reason for deletion. -- 21:04, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep and resolve naming dispute. I'm inclined to buy the claim that 'menu icon' is the formal -- and therefore preferable -- name, but this would need to be demonstrated more clearly from the technical literature. ARK (talk)
 * Keep per ARK. —Steve Summit (talk) 00:45, 8 October 2018 (UTC)


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