Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Welkom (disambiguation)


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The result was delete.  Sandstein  14:45, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Welkom (disambiguation)

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The only real link on the page is the link to the city Welkom in South Africa. The claim that Welkom "refers most commonly to" the Flo Rida song is utter nonsense: 1) The song in question is titled "My house", while "Welcome to my house" is the first line of the lyrics. Certainly not written as "Welkom". 2) Neither "welkom" nor "welcome" is mentioned in the target article "My house (Flo Rida song)"; the same goes for the article page of the album "My house (EP)". 3) The phrase "Welkom to my house" has an amazing 21 hits in Google. T*U (talk) 15:23, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete There's no ambiguity to disambiguate with this word. Welcome is already a disambiguation page on its own right. Not seeing a need for this page. Joyous! | Talk 15:56, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep HiT*U. I just wanted let you know that at least in my country of Canada and in the USA when you search Welkom on Google Canada/USA and Youtube Canada/USA/UK the first thing that comes up is the Flo Rida song. That is unlikely to change as the song is now 2 years old. I think before you nominate Welkom (disambiguation) for deletion and say that Welkom to my house is more notable than Welkom, South Africa, you should go on Google Canada, Google USA, YouTube Canada, YouTube USA, and YouTube UK and notice that the Flo Rida song is the dominant Welkom search. User:Red Icarus of Jakarta (User talk:Red Icarus of Jakarta) 28 November 2016 —Preceding undated comment added 02:01, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
 * YouTube can obviously not be used to define a WP:Primarytopic. Neither can a Google search alone, but it would be of interest to see how you manage to get the search result you claim. Could you please provide a link to the Google search result you describe? --T*U (talk) 08:56, 28 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 06:09, 28 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Delete FloRida song is not primary topic - only released last year and will quickly drop down Google rankings (see WP:RECENT). We have to think long-term and in 50 years the city will still be there but the song will be long-forgotten - it's not a classic. The other issue is that Welkom to my house is a bad redirect - that isn't the title and isn't mentioned in article. Google.co.uk came up almost exclusively about the city, only mentions of FloRida song were on song lyrics pages which always have errors, and this was with Googling the full phrase 'Welkom to my house'. There were also more song lyric pages with 'Welcome' rather than 'Welkom'. It's not even a partial match, which we don't list on dabs anyway (see WP:PTM.) Dabfix suggested adding Welkom, Northern Cape so I have. Not convinced it will ever merit an article though and probably shouldn't be redlinked, just added per MOS:DABMENTION, unless farmstead in South Africa could mean village? Even so, I couldn't find good sources and it certainly wouldn't be as notable as the city. It seems to be a 'farmstead' of 381 people ( was the best source I could get). Anyway, that could be dealt with via a hatnote. The line about what it means in other languages should be deleted. Boleyn (talk) 10:30, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Weak keep Leaving aside the link to the primary topic and the unsettled matter with the song, there are entries for the other settlement (a farmstead?), a relevant wiktionary link and a "see also" entry for the similarly spelt Welcome. Although these three links could fit in a hatnote at Welkom (and hence render the dab page redundant), they're all quite peripheral and unlikely to be anything but clutter for the vast majority of readers of that article, so I'd rather keep them out of there and in the separate dab page. – Uanfala (talk) 13:23, 30 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete. The farmstead is not likely to ever have an article, the song lyric is misspelled, and the only other article titles with "Welkom" in them are a school and a stadium in the city. This page is not worth keeping. — Gorthian (talk) 18:48, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Delete due to the PTM issue for the song and per WP:NOTDIC. -  C HAMPION  (talk) (contributions) (logs) 07:14, 5 December 2016 (UTC)


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