Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A. N. Other (2nd nomination)

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. Wizardman 04:19, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A. N. Other

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Not worth an individual article. Delete, or merge and redirect to placeholder name. Full of original research, and dicdef-ish. h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 03:34, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

• Redirect to Pseudonym or similar; no notability for this particular one, it seems to me (cf. Anon E. Mouse). JJL (talk) 04:00, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

• Redirect or smerge, but I wouldn't say that it's a non-notable -- it's actually quite common and would definitely be a good example of an anonymous pseudonym in the Pseudonymity article.Ikasu (talk) 04:18, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

• Redirect, a notable pseudonym, but a lot of this article is not verifiable or original research. The bit about the F1 driver should also be merged if it hasn't been already. Lankiveil (talk) 06:18, 22 December 2007 (UTC).

So there aren't enough references in the article for you but you also want to get rid of one of references as well? Nick mallory (talk) 12:29, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

• Keep Redirection to Placeholder name does not require deletion which is all we are here for. Also I suspect national bias against British usage - see the similar John Doe to which this article might aspire. Colonel Warden (talk) 09:50, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Common expression in Britain. There are more than 20 similar names in this category and A.N. Other is certainly one of the least obscure names. If this gets merged to 'placeholder name' then why not merge "John Doe" too? Finding sources for it seems hard because search engines won't differentiate between "AN Other' and 'an other'. Anyone know a way round this? Nick mallory (talk) 12:29, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
• Keep per Nick Mallory. STORMTRACKER 94 13:01, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
• Keep; topic has enough popular usage, and article has enough content, that it can stand separately from pseudonym and placeholder name. -Sean Curtin (talk) 07:33, 26 December 2007 (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.