Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nareg

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 delete. Obviously, we can create a disambiguation page once there is something to disambiguate. GRBerry 20:52, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

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I had speedy deleted this page as lacking context, but the creator argued that this was incorrect. This may be so, but I still feel that this article is not suited for Wikipedia. It is intended as a disambiguation page, but there are no Wikipedia articles for people with the name Nareg or Narek, except for the given Gregory of Narek. This makes this nothing more than an etymogical dictionary definition, violating WP:NOT. Wikipedia is not a list of all given names (or surnames) with their origin. Fram 07:12, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Administrator Fram was reasonable enough to bring this discussion to this forum and I appreciate that greatly. While I am new to editing Wikipedia, I have used Wikipedia for several years and have read through most (if not all) of the WP:LGL, including WP:NOT. I state this only to establish that I have greater familiarity than my small list of contributions would suggest. While I certainly appreciate Fram's experience in this matter, I respectfully disagree with Fram's interpretation of the the WP:NOT guidelines in the case of given names (or surnames). In fact, there are nearly 2,000 Wikipedia articles under Category:Given Names and approximately 6,000 Wikipedia articles under Category:Surnames. Referring to WP:DICT:

An article with a family name or a given name as its title is usually a disambiguation article, which links to all of the articles on people who are commonly known solely by that name, all of the places commonly known by that name, and all of the things known by that name.

The word "usually" suggests that while it is more often than not the case that a given name or surname article is a disambiguation, there exist circumstances where it can be not and still be a valid Wikipedia article. If for some reason unknown to me the arguments above are fallacious, I would posit that the article Nareg is, at the very least, a WP:STUB and can be expanded to become a good article (please see Category:Given name stubs). Thank you again for your reconsideration in deleting this article. --SimpleParadox 17:42, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

• Delete as WP is not a dictionary of names. --Gavin Collins 20:33, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
• I would agree with the speedy per A1, but failing that, delete per Gavin Collins. Stifle (talk) 20:28, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete Sagredo 04:59, 4 October 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.