Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WAP (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 was Keep Eluchil404 05:13, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WAP (disambiguation)

Finishing this. No own opinion. ~ trialsanderrors 01:00, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

This article disambiguates only two items

• WAP as in Wireless Application Protocol and
• San Diego Wild Animal Park!

Delete. Only serves to confuse, adds no value. It doesn't look as if there are any more WAPs to come. Perhaps if there was an article Wild Animal Parks but WAP would have to be a common usage for that meaning and it isn't. Ex nihil 01:02, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. No evidence that the San Diego zoo is known as "Wap". Is it too late to delete this entry from the page and go for a G6? Tevildo 01:07, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. Keep due to changes. SM247^{My Talk} 01:32, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete never heard of Wild Animal Park as "WAP". Danny Lilithborne 01:38, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Not needed. An "otheruses" template would serve fine. --Aguerriero (talk) 02:48, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete useless. Jmatt1122 03:43, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, pointless disambiguation page. The Wild Animal Park -> San Diego Zoo redirect will probably need to be proposed at RFD (or speedied if this disambig page gets deleted). --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 05:02, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. It might be better to change the redirect from Wild Animal Park to the generic Zoo, rather than leaving it pointing to the one specific zoo or deleting it altogether. Tevildo 09:59, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
    • Just briefly noting that Wild Animal Park was nominated at RfD. Luna Santin 10:32, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: What about Wireless access point? I've heard these referred to by this acronym (see [1] - first acronym definition after "Wireless Application Protocol"). Unless there's any objection to adding this as a definition to the disambiguation page, this by itself is enough to keep (though I agree with losing the distinctly shaky Wild Animal Park definition). ~ Matticus78 12:03, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and expand as pe Matticus78. As per most TLAs I'd be suprised if it doesn't have a few more meanings. Artw 14:25, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and expand per Matticux78 and Artw: there are at least three uses for WAP and that doesn't account for whatever arcane uses exist by some notable sub-cultures. I'm not sure what the threshold of usefulness on a dab page is, but I'm pretty sure 3 is worthwhile (even if Wild Animal Park is somewhat suspect.) --Vengeful Cynic 16:03, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
• Comment I don't care if this is deleted or not, since it's not taking away valuable real estate, but dabbing between access point and application protocol can be done via a dab header. ~ trialsanderrors 16:24, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I've added more entries where WAP is used within Wikipedia. I also removed Wild Animal Park, but if someone feels that belongs, feel free to put it back in. -- JLaTondre 16:33, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep in it's current state, although I would have orignally voted to delete. -- Northenglish (talk) -- 21:48, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep now that it's respectable. Please God no - don't replace the animal park (that's now a disambig itself incidentally). --DaveG12345 23:15, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep following updates. Tevildo 00:07, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep after updates. --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 03:11, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep now. I started tagged this AfD but with these updates is useful enough to retain. Has been a useful exercise. But no animal parks please. Ex nihil 00:56, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. This is a ridiculous nomination, and shame on those who voted 'delete'. The article might certainly be improved by bluelinking the definitions rather than the explanations. - Richardcavell 06:13, 13 July 2006 (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.