Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Branin

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The result of the debate was Delete. Redwolf24 01:01, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Branin

Unverifiable Telsa 17:05, 16 August 2005 (UTC) (My first VfD, be gentle.) Delete as unverifiable. See Talk:Branin for a very long list of queries I had about the article and its sources. It has been two months and not one has been addressed. I can't find the Austrian city mentioned in the article and I remain unconvinced that you can take three languages and four etymologies to come up with multiple spellings and call them variant spellings of the same surname. I spent a morning in the local reference library with some very large dictionaries indeed and was unable to confirm a single assertion of the article except that brenin means king in modern Welsh and that brân means crow. Which is not really a lot. Telsa 17:14, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete Brennan is a common Irish name, and the text about it relating to the Irish word "braon" is verified elsewhere, but that's about it. The idea that a single name would have Irish and Welsh and Anglo-Saxon roots doesn't make sense, and the name "Branin" I have never encountered. Ben-w 17:48, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
• Suggestion: Hello Telsa. I heartily commend your exceptional diligence and patience in researching this, and maintaining an interest in it for 1 month and 17 days. If I understand correctly, Branin is claimed by the article to be a variant of the name Brennan. Various etymological attributions and associations are also claimed. You have researched this and been able to verify just two facts in the whole article. My first instinct was to vote delete, per WP:V, but I wonder if your obvious knowledge of this subject may benefit WP more in another way. Would you be able to write an article on what in your opinion is the correct rendition of the name, perhaps Brennan? You could include all relevant, verifiable etymological and historical details in that article. Then, we might get the Branin page (blanked of everything save the title) to redirect to Brennan. However, if you feel "Branin" is completely unremarkable as a name or version worthy of encyclopedic record (ie., if you think Branin is essentially bogus as a historical name), then we can delete the Branin page. For the purposes of this VfD, I vote delete, unless you specifically confirm that Branin may find use as a legitimate redirect.—Encephalon | ^ζ  19:36:40, 2005-08-16 (UTC)
• Delete. Telsa's points are well-made. In fact, her queries are for more educated than the article itself, which looks like nonsense to me. Dottore So 20:05, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Despite this being my last name, this article is an ill-informed grab bag of words. Lunar Jesters 14:22, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

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