Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ryan Johnston


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The result was  keep - effectively withdrawn and with no outstanding !votes in favour of deletion (non-admin close).  St ★ lwart 1 1 1 05:29, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Ryan Johnston

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This is a disambiguation page that contains no entries with valid wikilinks. I asked for speedy when it had only two entries with no wikilinks, now we have six. But it seems there is not ONE Ryan Johnston notable enough to have a WP article, let alone two, so I don't see why we need a disambiguation article. ubiquity (talk) 20:12, 3 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Speedy keep User:Ubiquity should read MOS:DABMENTION and MOS:DABRL. 6 valid entries and valid see also. Boleyn (talk) 20:25, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep per Boleyn. No valid reason to delete. Bearian (talk) 20:45, 3 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep - I'm not seeing the issue. If some guy named Ryan Johnston is in a notable band, but isn't notable himself, you create a redirect. How you deal with a situation where a redirect is needed for multiple people with the same name if not through a disambig page? Bali88 (talk) 20:49, 3 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep per MOS:DABMENTION and MOS:DABRL.  Schmidt,  Michael Q. 21:04, 3 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Acquiesce - I read the noted articles. I stand corrected. But does this mean that everyone who is mentioned in an article, even if not sufficiently notable to have their own article, is entitled to have a redirect to that article under their own name, or an entry on the disambiguation page for that name if one exists? MOS:DABMENTION seems to suggest that. ubiquity (talk) 21:36, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's what it means. If only one of the mentions existed, a redirect to that mentioning article could be created. Since there are multiple such redirect targets, a disambiguation page is needed; it's effectively a soft redirect with multiple targets. -- JHunterJ (talk) 01:14, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:09, 4 June 2014 (UTC)


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