Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Uel

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was no consensus (5 votes to delete, 3 to keep, 4 to merge into a list); therefore, I have boldly listified this entry into List of minor Biblical figures, and invite anyone interested to add names to the article as appropriate.  BD2412 ^talk 00:34, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Uel

Delete. No assertion of notability. The article provides nothing more than his genealogy. Very minor Biblical character. ♠DanMS 00:47, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Biblical figures, no matter how minor, are valid entries. Cnwb 03:11, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. In Bible = notable. Andrew pmk | Talk 03:25, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
  • As far as I can determine, he is not a Biblical “figure.” He is just a name in list of genealogies. Do we want a separate article in the Wikipedia for every name that happens to occur in the Bible? If anyone can come up with some significance, I’ll be glad to change my vote. ♠DanMS 06:17, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unless there is more than the one mention. User:Zoe|^(talk) 07:43, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. He was a priest who had married a foreign woman. His father was named Bani. He's mentioned in the bible. More information about this person will never be available. FJG 08:57, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

I've misread the section; sorry. He wasn't a priest. Also, I should have mentioned that his name appears in a list of (by my count) 111 people who had married foreign women. FJG 17:26, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete unexpandable. Biblical characters are indeed notable, but they need more than just a single mention to get an entire article. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:36, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as per Mgm. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 14:04, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

  I'd also go along with  BD2412's idea (below). --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 16:14, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

• Listify, if there are enough others like him. Can we not list such minor Biblical characters? -- BD2412 ^talk 14:42, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand per User:FJG, then stop. The article will do its job just fine. Kappa 14:58, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Listify as per BDA above. If all we can ever hope to say about him is what FJG has above, that shouldn't merit a standalone article. ESkog 16:29, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
• Listify per BDA. Ilmari Karonen 23:39, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge into a List. As this article stands, it's a sub-stub, & could easily be expanded into a decent paragraph: a minute's glance of Ezra 10 shows he was one of a group of Isrealites who apparently returned to Jerusalem, & foreswore taking non-Jewish wife. I'm sure some research in the secondary literature would shed more light on the signifcance of this episode. On the other hand, only one other article (a list) links to this article, which argues that Uel is not worth his own article. -- llywrch 23:57, 3 October 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.