Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/USS John S. McCain


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The result was keep. Non-admin closure. &mdash; neuro(talk) 19:36, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

USS John S. McCain

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There are only two USS John S. McCain ships and they are hat noted in each of the two article on those ships. Since the two article already link directly to the other ship article, USS John S. McCain is not needed. -- Suntag  ☼  02:40, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep - This is standard for all ships who have the same name. - Marcusmax ( speak ) 02:49, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Hatnotes are useful, but if someone types in "USS John S. McCain" (or its redirect, "USS John McCain"), they might not know this; if we delete the article, they might think that there's no ship of this name or that we don't have one. Moreover, neither one is the primary topic, so it wouldn't be good to make this a redirect to either of them.  Nyttend (talk) 02:56, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Useful for navigation. Zagalejo^^^ 03:47, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. Nyttend says it best: Good for navigation and search purposes, and a disambiguation is favourable in this case, where neither ship is a primary topic. It is common practice to have two-ship disambiguation pages for exactly these reasons, and if/when the United States Navy gives this or a similar name to a future warship, hatnote-ing becomes more complicated. -- saberwyn 05:52, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep, Very notable ship.--Xxhopingtearsxx (talk) 08:53, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Nobody is suggesting that we delete the article on the ship. Punkmorten (talk) 17:15, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Sensible disambiguation page needed to make a functional encyclopaedia; Wily D 10:36, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - I don't see any issues, also per Nyttend. &mdash; neuro(talk) 13:09, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - standard ship thing - causes no problems and helps search. MilborneOne (talk) 17:00, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep in the event that someone searches for "USS John S. McCain". Punkmorten (talk) 17:15, 25 October 2008 (UTC)


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