Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Snæbjörn

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep (no consensus to delete, nowhere to merge to). Mindspillage (spill yours?) 14:27, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Snæbjörn
Wikipedia is not a names database. Vanity. RickK 22:50, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 22:57, 5 May 2005 (UTC)


 * (Invalid anon vote) Keep it.

Anyone not in favor of Snæbjörn being added to the Wikipedia's database, please have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen, which contains an Icelandic version of Stephen, Stefán.

This article is not being considered for deletion, so neither should Snæbjörn.

Regards, Siggi Olafsson.


 * The above is by User:213.213.151.31. Stephen is a disambiguation page with a long list of articles about people whose first name is Stephen.  Please point to the similar list of articles on Wikipedia concerning people whose first name is Snæbjörn.  RickK 23:34, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into an article that covers the family of names to which this name belongs. Families of names are inherently encyclopedic (and damn interesting). I'm starting to feel like I should write a template on this, so I'm going to start a discussion on it now. -- BD Abram son thi m k 00:13, 2005 May 6 (UTC)
 * Merge as above. Kappa 19:19, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Could you please point to such an article? So far as I know, there is none.  And I don't understand dab's comment about "the family of names to which this name belongs".  I know of no such article.  Precedent has long been to delete articles on names unless they are disambiguations.  RickK 04:25, May 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * E.g. move it to björn and wait for some other björns to accumulate. Kappa 05:32, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * That's just silly. RickK 06:10, May 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * no personal attacks Kappa 06:22, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * That's the mild version. It took me several tries before I wound up with words that weren't a real personal attack.  RickK 09:01, May 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * LOL we seem to have the same effect on each other. Kappa 12:42, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to Wiktionary if they want it, or delete. --Carnildo 23:02, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete (rather than transwiki) as it doesn't seem to meet Wiktionary's criteria for the inclusion of proper nouns:
 * 1. It is used as a common noun (especially if it is commonly written without capitalization).
 * 2. It is used in an attributive sense with the expectation that the meaning will be widely understood (a David Beckham hairstyle).
 * 3. Words or terms derived from the name are already in Wiktionary.
 * 4. The name appears in different forms in different languages (e.g. John/Johann/Jan/Juan/Jean/Giovanni ...)

--Angr/comhrá 13:40, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Snaebjorn is a variation of Bjorn (bear), which is related to Berlin, Berne, Brno etc, and also Brown. Kappa 14:13, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Not Berlin, which is a Slavic word unrelated to bear. And anyway, having a listing for a word based on its etymological cognates is a characteristic of a dictionary, not an encyclopedia, so it shouldn't be here. And the whole name Snæbjörn does not meet the criteria for inclusion at Wiktionary, even if Björn does. Björn does not, however, meet WP's criteria for inclusion, so it should never be created here. --Angr/comhrá 22:44, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to Bjorn when it's created. The current version is of vanityish type considering that Icelanders refer to people only by first names... Grue 17:51, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, just a name. Radiant_* 09:39, May 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - T&#949;x  &#964;  ur&#949;  16:30, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep SchmuckyTheCat 15:42, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep &mdash; Instantnood 08:27, May 14, 2005 (UTC)
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