Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michael Wilding (disambiguation)


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The result was delete. Tone 14:23, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Michael Wilding (disambiguation)

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Per WP:2DABS; hatnotes are the better option. Was prodded giving this reason by. Deprodded by creator who felt it was pointless to delete it when it has existed for 16 years. Boleyn (talk) 13:33, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete per WP:ONEOTHER which states, "[I]f there are only two topics to which a given title might refer, and one is the primary topic, then a disambiguation page is not needed—it is sufficient to use a hatnote on the primary topic article, pointing to the other article." Although the dab page has been in existence for 16 years, its talk page has remained empty (other than for the current notice from RMCD bot), thus leaving no discussions to serve as historical record. As of this writing, the dab page has become for all intents invisible since the hatnote atop the actor's page points to the writer, not to the dab page. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 16:45, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete, clear case of 2DABS. Longevity is no excuse. —David Eppstein (talk) 18:09, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete: when it was created by Deb, she had just moved the actor from primary topic to disambiguated. He has since been moved back to being primary topic, so dab page is now not needed. If someone wants to propose (again) that there is no primary topic, that's a different discussion. Pam  D  10:19, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
 * He appears to be a real actor form an earlier era in need of sourcing NotButtigieg (talk) 14:54, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete, disambiguation is not required. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 20:09, 3 January 2020 (UTC)


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