Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Softener

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The result was keep. ‑Scottywong | soliloquize _ 17:44, 27 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Softener

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All 3 entries on this disambiguation page are partial title matches. Delete this page to avoid impeding Search. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 10:51, 20 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Ridiculous compilation of unrelated partial title matches, which has gone through many iterations. Two of the current three items are redirects. Softlavender (talk) 11:14, 20 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 16:39, 20 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep A satisfactory disambiguation page. Partial title matches are sensible in this case because the term "softener" may be used by itself and so is a reasonable search term. Andrew D. (talk) 18:00, 20 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep All valid and useful dab page entries. PamD 08:22, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Let me link again to the guideline on partial title matches. This is expressly something to avoid. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 21:01, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Both fabric softeners and water softeners are occasionally referred to as just "softeners", so they aren't partial title matches but different meanings of an ambiguous term. – Uanfala (talk) 22:24, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Uanfala. power~enwiki (π, ν) 16:53, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep this works as a disambig page. Lightburst (talk) 01:14, 23 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I was going to say delete seeing WP:PTM. But Unfala and Andrew's words seem reasonable.
- Comment - This page was created by the Neelix, who created over 50000 questionable redirects. Masum Reza^📞 12:12, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

plus the editor created 100s of articles, and has quite a colorful userpage...and? what has this got to do with this afd? Coolabahapple (talk) 23:21, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It was supposed to be funny. That's all. I have seen plenty of bizarre redirects created by him. Masum Reza^📞 13:52, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, looks like a sensible disam page, re WP:PTM, does this mean that Leather softener shouldn't be included? Coolabahapple (talk) 23:25, 25 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Added more links, cleaned it up, and added descriptions. A valid DAB page. AmericanAir88^(talk) 13:44, 26 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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.