Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Herner

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was ambiguous.

I am calling this as a "delete" in deference to the fairly well established precedent that articles about names are really dictionary entries, not encyclopedia articles. As Uncle G points out below, the exceptions are disambiguation pages, not articles about the name. Since this page only lists a single person (who by the way does not yet have an article), it does not qualify as a disambiguation page. I have elected not to transwiki the article to Wiktionary because there is not enough content to convince me that they would accept it. (The content would be "Herner is a german originated family name.")

This delete decision is made without prejudice if either 1) the article is re-created in Wiktionary as an article about the name or 2) the content is used to create a properly-named stub about the one person listed as an example (that content being "Janos Herner is the creator of the TimeWheel, the monument of time erected in Hungary, Europe.").

I am electing not to create the stub on Mr Herner merely because I can find no evidence that he would meet the recommended criteria for inclusion of biographies but that is a personal decision, not a concensus VfD decision. Rossami (talk) 21:14, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Herner

This is not an article, at most it might be a (sub-)stub. Adam78 14:49, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Keep can be developed, if I am not mistaken, there are articles on other names. You 19:19, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
  • Usually they are name disambiguations (such as Bush or Remington). Rarely, they are on people commonly known solely by a single name (such as Rasputin or Houdini). This is not the case here. The actual subject of this article, Janos Herner (more properly János Herner, it seems), is not commonly known as "Herner". Rename and Delete redirect. Uncle G 02:49, 2005 Jun 12 (UTC)

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