Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Manan

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 redirect to Manan (disambiguation). However, both pages will need to be swapped so that the disambiguation page does not have the disambiguation modifier since there are no primary topic. There are also no opposition to moving the redirect to Manan (name) so it will also be performed. (non-admin closure) ~ Aseleste (t, e | c, l) 05:03, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Manan[edit]

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Wikipedia is not a dictionary. The category Hindu philosophical concepts appears to be an error, since the proper word (according to the article itself) is "manana". Once the edit history is expunged, there are plenty of people with the given name or surname, as well as a handful of places. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:35, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 07:49, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per WP:NOTDICT and WP:TNT. A collection of multiple, unrelated concepts that happen to be named with similar – not quite the same – words is specifically something that Wikipedia is not. The earliest version of the page might have been a shout-out to someone named Manan Patel from a contributor with no other edits. Over the years it appears to have attracted a variety of jokes, shout-outs, edit wars, and vandalism, but nothing I could see of encyclopedic value, unless I missed it. Cnilep (talk) 09:12, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect. This is an article about a personal name, or rather – an article about several unrelated names that are spelt the same in English. It is, in principle, viable, and some of the content that's directly about the names looks alright (though wild tangents definitely don't – hence the call for TNT above). The article has been around for 14 years, and has seen a surprising level of editing, but I can't see, at least from a quick glance, any good quality version in the history that we can revert to. I'd prefer to keep this history, allowing re-use and re-creation by anyone who's willing to do the legwork to use sources to improve the content. Ideally, we would have a separate article about each of those names, as they're distinct encyclopedic topics, but until that happens, we can resort to another basic function of name articles – navigation to people with the name. To that end, I've created Manan (disambiguation), which contains among other things a list of people whose name is spelt "Manan", regardless of origin. The best course of action is to move the article to Manan (name) and turn it into a redirect to the dab page (which would then be at Manan). – Uanfala (talk) 15:17, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support ↑. Plenty of other given names get Wikipedia articles.A Tree In A Box (talk) 14:25, 9 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, EggRoll97 ^(talk) 06:30, 12 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Uanfala's Manan dab page. The drafted disambiguation page is preferable to outright deletion. ---- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 23:33, 13 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I was going to create a dab page after the dust had settled, but Uanfala beat me to it. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:02, 16 March 2021 (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.