Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Youkhanna

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 Delete Wikibofh 22:26, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Youkhanna

This is vanity and unencyclopaedic. We do not even have an article on the village in question, yet there is this article on the headman's family. The article is correct in saying that Youkhanna is the name John in some Aramaic dialects, but is not anymore noteworthy than that. Gareth Hughes 16:05, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per nomination. — Gareth Hughes 16:05, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment is there some hoax going on here? See [1] for an unlikely juxtaposition of Youkhanna+Rayes+Araden. Dlyons493 Talk 16:44, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
• Comment. Probably the same person as "Youkhanna Reyes ... of the Aradin Society (Detroit, U.S.)" [2] (Google's cache of http://www.atour.com/zenda/previous/19971215.htm, an online magazine). Something slightly odd about it but perhaps just a poor and unclear article; I for one am certainly not informed enough to judge the authenticity & worth of the article and whether it could/should be salvaged. Flapdragon 17:52, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

...though I don't see that the lack of article on the village (Araden/Aradin) has any relevance. Perhaps it should have one, since it seems to have some notability. Flapdragon 18:16, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Gareth Hughes has been bashing all of my contributions to Wikipedia. I an Aramaic/Syriac speaking Assyrian according to Gareth Hughes know less about myself and origination than he does. I beg to differ.

I am Gareth Hughes: I speak Syriac. I'm not bashing you: I simply believe that you are writing nonsense. The fact is that this is not an encyclopaedic article. If you want to write something about the name Youkhanna, it should be added to the article on John as an alternative spelling. If you want to write something on Araden, then it should be titled Araden. However, this is really about a bit of both, and is not worthy of being an encyclopaedia entry. --Gareth Hughes 10:53, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per Gareth Hughes, or redirect to John. Rd232 18:11, 19 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.