Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zé Manel

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 no consensus. - Mailer Diablo 06:19, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zé Manel

I speedied this, but the creator is complaining. So I'm listing it here to give him a chance to make his case. Abstain -Doc 21:29, 16 August 2006 (UTC) This was incomplete as there was a character issue with the é in Zé. Yomangani^talk 23:18, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

What's the shortcoming? Exactly what makes this insufficient as an article? I am willing to expand it. Keep -User:Ze'Manel

• Keep - It needs cleaning up, but someday it might be as nice as John Smith, Bubba, etc. Rangek 23:47, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. This is not an encyclopedia article. · rodii · 20:44, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks,  (aeropagitica)   (talk)  04:49, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete I would have to say that an article like this is like me creating an article "John Smith" and then listing all of the people who have the name. Unencyclopedic in nature. Maybe an article on the nickname "Zé" and how it evolved from "José", if there is a verifiable history and if it is a very common nickname. Similar to what was done with the name Bill. will381796 05:02, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect to the non-short form if any of the mentioned people have articles. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:22, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I don't really think that the article justifies deletion. One could be searching for someone known as "Zé Manel" and would find that page. Indeed it's a nickname, but it's a quite common one in Portugal. --Húsönd 13:45, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, similar to many disambiguation pages we have (e.g. Mark Stevens), but with a short explanation of the origin of the name. Its not standard or often seen here on Wikipedia, but in principle nothing wrong with it (although it could use some cleanup of layout). Cpt. Morgan (Reinoutr) 13:55, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
• The article should be turned into a real disambiguation page, i.e. the rather lenghty description of the people should go or be merged into their respective articles (if they have none, just create stubs). Keep but cleanup. Revisit in some time if cleanup is not performed. Punkmorten 21:46, 24 August 2006 (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.