Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Town-naming contest

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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 00:38, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Town-naming contest

Wikipedia is not for personal essays or original research. This piece contains nothing but these things. I would speedy delete it, but it is just barely above patent nonsense. Harro5 03:14, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Non-encyclopedic. You're right, its not a speedy, but it's such an obvious delete that there ought to be a speedy category for it. Herostratus 03:45, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. ••MDD4696 ( talk - contribs ) 04:17, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete per nomination. The substantive, non-personal content is already in the Dallas, Texas article and does not require a merge. --Metropolitan90 06:44, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as waste of space. --YixilTesiphon 13:18, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, unsourced, first-person essay. - Mgm|^(talk) 16:52, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with discussion page of Dallas, Texas. It's an absorbing piece that's more suited to a talk page than to an article. Wikipedia has room for first-person reminiscences as sidelines to the objective articles. Fg2 00:30, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
  • It may have room for first-person anecdotes as sidelines, but it has three official policies (Neutral point of view No original research Verifiability) forbidding them. Uncle G 00:55, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete; this is not a place for personal anecdotes. If citeable sources can be found for origin of city name, this can be added to the Dallas, Texas page. *Dan T.* 05:42, 4 December 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.