Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/World Countries: Origin of Names

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. Useless as a redir. - CrazyRussian talk/email 17:24, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] World Countries: Origin of Names

An attempt at a list of etymologies. Dictionary material, and Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Wiktionary already has many countries' etymologies in their entries (e.g. wikt:Afghanistan). At best, these should be one-liners in the countries' articles. —Lamentation :( 06:41, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per above, etymology is not a proper Wikipedia field and redirect per below. Jammo (SM247) 11:48, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, it is interesting to have all this on one page together, I would like to see more, and would add some my self if the page stays given the List of country name etymologies, we don't need this one! GB 13:03, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Not encyclopedic. —Centrx→talk 21:36, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete It'd be keep if it had more than one line of info on it. You can't just start am article and expect it to finish itslef. --Mincetro 23:48, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom; WP:NOT a dictionary and useful or interesting not reasons to keep. Angus McLellan (Talk) 08:27, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to List of country name etymologies Fg2 09:04, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. --Arnzy ^{(whats up?)} 09:10, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, not a logical place for a redirect and we already have List of country name etymologies. BigNate37 09:25, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. The List of country name etymologies already does a good job and follows naming conventions. No need for a redirect. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:31, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. --Coredesat 10:43, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per above. ---CH 00:23, 22 June 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.