Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/FAU
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This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result of the debate was keep (nomination withdrawn). -- BD2412 talk 03:27, July 23, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] FAU
Delete. This entry is nonencyclopedic. It was previously redirected to Florida Atlantic University but was altered to include the other abbreviations. -Soltak 21:43, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
- Keep, this is usefull to the Wikipedia user. See another example at VFD and CC. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 00:06, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
- Clarification. Whether or not the article is 'helpful' is irrelevant. I have little doubt that some users would find articles comprised of complete literary works 'helpful.' The Wikipedia standard for deletion is whether or not an article could be found in an encyclopedia; abbreviations cannot. -Soltak 00:20, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
- It appears that both Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen Nuremberg and Florida Atlantic University are commonly known as FAU. This is thus, with the exception of the interwiki link entry, a quite normal disambiguation article. Keep. Uncle G 00:17, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
- Clarification. The simple fact that FAU stands for more than one thing does not mean it warrants an article. RSR stands for remote service request, required supply rate, resource status report, and several other things. It does not have such an entry in Wikipedia. If a user types in FAU expecting one thing and ends up with another, I shouldn't think they'd be very troubled to simply spell out their request in full. -Soltak 00:27, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
- Uncle G said that this page you are nominating is called an disambiguation article. If there are more than one thing that uses the name or initials, then the article is turned into a list. Example, I type in football. But there are more than one type of football, so it gives a list asking me what specific article I want to look it. That is what a disambiguation does. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 00:31, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
- I am not unfamiliar with the purpose of a disambiguation page. I would withdraw my request if FAU were to be reconstructed in a more effective fashion (more closely matching other disambiguation pages, like OSU, for example). As it stands currently this is only an entry for an abbreviation and is nonencyclopedic. -Soltak 00:38, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
- Uncle G said that this page you are nominating is called an disambiguation article. If there are more than one thing that uses the name or initials, then the article is turned into a list. Example, I type in football. But there are more than one type of football, so it gives a list asking me what specific article I want to look it. That is what a disambiguation does. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 00:31, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
- Request withdrawn. Thank you for your cooperation. -Soltak 00:41, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
- Your welcome. I have also struck out your vote for deletion, so to not confuse the admins. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 00:43, 18 July 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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.
