Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yana (name)
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- 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. - Mailer Diablo 12:05, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Yana (name)
Wikipedia is not a collection of indiscriminate information. Wikipedia is also not a dictionary. NMChico24 03:57, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Disambiguation page already exists. MER-C 06:16, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- Delete, Haha, Wikipedia is not a place to tell everyone your name is Bulgarian and means "Gracious, merciful, charming". --Candy-Panda 09:28, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- Delete Inappropriate - WP:NOT#DICT.
Not even appropriate for a dictionary though.CiaranG 13:25, 28 January 2007 (UTC)- On the contrary: It is. Wiktionary takes proper nouns as well as common nouns. Proper nouns are, after all, words (as long as they are properly attested). See wikt:Category:English proper nouns, for example. This article, which gives the etymology, part of speech, alternative spellings, and meaning of a proper noun, is canonical dictionary article territory. See wikt:Yana and wikt:Appendix:Names female-Y. Uncle G 13:56, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- I was referring to an actual dictionary in the commonly used sense of the word, rather than Wiktionary. None of my dictionaries include people's names, except for the two specifically labelled as dictionaries of people's names. I didn't know that about Wiktionary though - perhaps I should pay more attention to it. Thanks for the clarification. CiaranG 14:14, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- Wiktionary is an "actual dictionary in the commonly used sense of the word". That you have some dictionaries that do not include these words does not affect that — it merely means that some dictionaries with limited vocabularies exist. But that shouldn't be news to anyone. And that you have some dictionaries that include proper nouns indeed reinforces the point. Uncle G 01:53, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
- I was referring to an actual dictionary in the commonly used sense of the word, rather than Wiktionary. None of my dictionaries include people's names, except for the two specifically labelled as dictionaries of people's names. I didn't know that about Wiktionary though - perhaps I should pay more attention to it. Thanks for the clarification. CiaranG 14:14, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- On the contrary: It is. Wiktionary takes proper nouns as well as common nouns. Proper nouns are, after all, words (as long as they are properly attested). See wikt:Category:English proper nouns, for example. This article, which gives the etymology, part of speech, alternative spellings, and meaning of a proper noun, is canonical dictionary article territory. See wikt:Yana and wikt:Appendix:Names female-Y. Uncle G 13:56, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. CSD and Prod tags removed by article author without reasoning. Michael Greiner 13:56, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- Delete per nom & above. Has little importance and is unsuited to Wikipedia. Bungle44 22:29, 28 January 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.
