Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Verizon (disambiguation)


 * 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   delete. j⚛e deckertalk 03:00, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Verizon (disambiguation)

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This is not an ambiguous term; it is, rather, a collection of products and venues named for a single company, all of which are discussed in the article, Verizon Communications. No disambiguation page is needed in such a circumstance. bd2412 T 21:22, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. I guess it's not hurting anything, but it does seem a bit unnecessary. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 23:10, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 13:36, 16 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete, not a dab page. Could be made into a set index article, but as BD2412 noted, it's already subsumed in the main article. -- JHunterJ (talk) 15:12, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete, I agree that it is fully subsumed at Verizon Communications. --Bejnar (talk) 16:58, 16 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep. It is properly set up to serve readers who are looking for one or another entity or building named Verizon.  It is hard to find "Verizon FiOS", for example, by scanning only within the current main Verizon article.  Are the buildings sometimes known as "Verizon" explicitly covered there?  If so, that would be odd, as probably not all of them are important in the context of a huge business.  There is no requirement that the main Verizon article should keep mentioning these at all, much less in a convenient list;  in fact it only mentions some of them in scattered places within long article.  Keeping the disambiguation page ensures that all usages are kept together to serve disambiguation need (for readers and for editors, too). -- do  ncr  am  02:56, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Are there really any buildings actually known as "Verizon"? They all seem to be the Verizon Something, which raises WP:PTM. If it can't be shown that they are, there is no point in manufacturing ambiguity where it doesn't exist naturally. bd2412  T 03:36, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Well there are multiple buildings named "Verizon Building", including Verizon Building in NYC and Verizon Building (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). Neither of those are disambiguated vis-a-vis each other, while one has hatnote disambiguation to yet another building also apparently sometimes using the same name.  And there is Verizon Center with hatnote disambiguation to several more Verizon buildings, including Verizon Arena and Verizon Wireless Arena and Verizon Wireless Center that are not in this disambiguation page yet.  There is no Verizon Building (disambiguation) page and one is needed, if it is not redirected to one big Verizon (disambiguation) page.  So I suggest either expanding the Verizon (disambiguation) page or moving it to Verizon Building (disambiguation) and expanding there.  And having it cover all the Verizon Centers, Arenas, etc.  Or, less sensibly, delete it per nom and provide a copy of the article so that a new Verizon Building (disambiguation) page can be created and be sure to cover its relevant contents.  I would really prefer to expand this dab page, Verizon (disambiguation), to be a combo dab clearly covering all of the alternative names. -- do  ncr  am  00:00, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * In other words, you would like to create a page that violates WP:PTM six ways from Sunday? This would go in exactly the opposite direction of what our guidelines require. There is no such thing as a "combo dab" - that is exactly what WP:PTM prohibits. If there are multiple buildings called the "Verizon Building" then the appropriate solution is to have a disambiguation page titled Verizon Building (disambiguation). bd2412  T 12:34, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment It seems that the problems that editor do  has, relate to the Verizon article and not to this disambiguation page. --Bejnar (talk) 04:23, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.