Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tropical Storm Alpha (disambiguation)

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 of the debate was keep. Ingoolemo ^talk 06:29, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tropical Storm Alpha (disambiguation)

Delete. There has never been another Tropical Storm Alpha. It is completely sufficient and correct to just make a link to other pages which are only somewhat similar (in this case, 1972's Subtropical Storm Alpha and and 1973's Subtropical Storm Alfa, both named for the NATO phonetic alphabet and not the Greek alphabet).  –radiojon 18:30, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. The style thus far has been, when there is one storm with a name, it gets the article (or a redirect to the appropriate season). When there are two storms with a name, and one has an article, there is a disambig link at the top of the article. When there are two or more storms with a name, and at least two don't have articles of their own, we use a disambiguation page; we don't crowd the top of the article with disambiguation links. Also, it has more information than most hurricane dab pages we have here. --Golbez 18:53, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. As I said on the talk page (which you have ignored), the disambiguation is absolutely necessary. Jdorje 19:01, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

• KEEP, seems perfectly reasonable. If it's a likely mistake to make, it should be disambiguated. We're supposed to help people find information, are we not? 132.205.45.148 20:43, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep: I should say that I've worked on this page. I'd like to point out that it is the style to have disambiguation pages for nameable tropical cyclones. These were all named. Also, using your (radiojon) arguments, the Hurricane Nicole page should also be deleted because, after all, there has only been one Hurricane Nicole. Also using your arguments, we should split up many of the hurricane disambiguation pages, such as Hurricane Madeline, because it was used on different lists, first on the female-only four year lists, and then on the modern, mixed-gender six year lists. Finally, I'd also like to point out that it is current practice to have spelling tweaks of a name all in one page, as the Hurricane Dalilia/Dalila and Hurricane Kirsten/Kristen disambiguation pages do. Miss Michelle | Talk to Michelle 23:11, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
  • There is nothing whatsoever that says you can't vote. --Golbez 23:18, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

• STRONG Keep, plus user seems to have something against the hurricane people for keeping a seperate Alpha article. I'm starting to wonder about good faith. -- NSLE _{(Communicate!)} ^<Contribs> 01:26, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. At worst, this page creates a slight redundancy, while it seems to provide some information and disambiguates between several similar articles. —Gaff ^ταλκ 23:51, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

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.