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Keep because there might be considerable confusion when searching for his son or for the ship -jakeg13579 19:48, 7 January 2017 (UTC) — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Jakegrossman1 (
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Keep. Harmless. Serves to list things named "Ronald Reagan".
bd2412T 20:57, 7 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep. Harmless and useful: serves to list things named "Ronald Reagan". Available for more things named "Ronald Reagan" to be added there in the future. I oppose churning of disambiguation pages. --
doncram 21:17, 7 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Comment:@
BD2412: Per
WP:PTM this page shouldn't exist. That's not opinion, that's policy. @
Doncram: You seem to be advocating
WP:RED.--
Nevé–selbert 21:48, 7 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Besides the junior and senior Reagan persons and besides the ship, there may be other things named Ronald Reagan which got removed previously from here because of disagreement about whether they were PTMs. It is apparent that people can disagree about whether something is a PTM that should be included or not. There are editors who are bent on removing marginal items, and then deleting the disambiguation page as a whole if the number of items on the page gets down to two, when page history and common sense show that other reasonable people know of many more items that are arguably items. The churning at the page level (trying to delete the whole disambiguation page) is bad. So is the churning at the item level. --
doncram 04:34, 8 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Proving the point that there might be other items to add, applicable to any disambiguation page, during this AFD
Boleyn's edit added
Ron Reagan (Florida representative) which is clearly valid. Sometimes with disambiguation pages there are shenanigans of deletionist removing items then deleting the page by administrative action without anyone else's review, or Speedy Deletion, or Prod if the Speedy fails, or then finally trying AFD. Here those shenanigans didn't happen as far as I can tell. But basically attempts to delete disambiguation pages are simply disruptive and IMO we ought to set up processes to stop them, e.g. perhaps impose bans on editors who have conducted shenanigans (not the case here). --
doncram 20:24, 8 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep. There are several legitimate dab entries.
Clarityfiend (
talk) 00:18, 8 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep, there are other uses listed that are ambiguous.,
older ≠
wiser 00:56, 8 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep: Ships usually have a redirect from their name without the "USS", "HMS" etc prefix - see
Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation) for example; son would have a redirect from birth name as "firstname surname", already has one from longer form
Ronald Prescott Reagan; so those two are certainly legitimate dab page entries.
PamD 10:20, 8 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep 4 entries which clearly meet policy (Florida politician, President, his son and ship). The see also is really useful here too.
Boleyn (
talk) 11:55, 8 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep All items are plausible search terms. Ships are usually included in DAB without their prefix - not to mention his son.
TheMagikCow (
talk) 17:15, 8 January 2017 (UTC)reply
That's good, thank you, and then this AFD can be closed as there are no "Delete" votes. However it should not be seen as if the addition of just one item made the difference. Besides the fact that the 3 original items are valid, there are other likely "Ronald Reagan" items to be added in the future. For example films and paintings and biographical books, as suggested by contents of
Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation), which PamD pointed to. In that vein, i just Googled and found my way to American Experience film "Reagan", which seems notable ...which turns out to have a Wikipedia article
Reagan (film) which probably is a valid item for this disambiguation page. And there will likely be more. "There will likely be more items" is a valid argument for disambiguation pages in general. --
doncram 21:50, 8 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Thanks,
Neve-selbert, for withdrawing and for the many good edits you've been making to dabs lately. Best wishes,
Boleyn (
talk) 21:56, 8 January 2017 (UTC)reply
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.
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.
Keep because there might be considerable confusion when searching for his son or for the ship -jakeg13579 19:48, 7 January 2017 (UTC) — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Jakegrossman1 (
talk •
contribs)
Keep. Harmless. Serves to list things named "Ronald Reagan".
bd2412T 20:57, 7 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep. Harmless and useful: serves to list things named "Ronald Reagan". Available for more things named "Ronald Reagan" to be added there in the future. I oppose churning of disambiguation pages. --
doncram 21:17, 7 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Comment:@
BD2412: Per
WP:PTM this page shouldn't exist. That's not opinion, that's policy. @
Doncram: You seem to be advocating
WP:RED.--
Nevé–selbert 21:48, 7 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Besides the junior and senior Reagan persons and besides the ship, there may be other things named Ronald Reagan which got removed previously from here because of disagreement about whether they were PTMs. It is apparent that people can disagree about whether something is a PTM that should be included or not. There are editors who are bent on removing marginal items, and then deleting the disambiguation page as a whole if the number of items on the page gets down to two, when page history and common sense show that other reasonable people know of many more items that are arguably items. The churning at the page level (trying to delete the whole disambiguation page) is bad. So is the churning at the item level. --
doncram 04:34, 8 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Proving the point that there might be other items to add, applicable to any disambiguation page, during this AFD
Boleyn's edit added
Ron Reagan (Florida representative) which is clearly valid. Sometimes with disambiguation pages there are shenanigans of deletionist removing items then deleting the page by administrative action without anyone else's review, or Speedy Deletion, or Prod if the Speedy fails, or then finally trying AFD. Here those shenanigans didn't happen as far as I can tell. But basically attempts to delete disambiguation pages are simply disruptive and IMO we ought to set up processes to stop them, e.g. perhaps impose bans on editors who have conducted shenanigans (not the case here). --
doncram 20:24, 8 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep. There are several legitimate dab entries.
Clarityfiend (
talk) 00:18, 8 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep, there are other uses listed that are ambiguous.,
older ≠
wiser 00:56, 8 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep: Ships usually have a redirect from their name without the "USS", "HMS" etc prefix - see
Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation) for example; son would have a redirect from birth name as "firstname surname", already has one from longer form
Ronald Prescott Reagan; so those two are certainly legitimate dab page entries.
PamD 10:20, 8 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep 4 entries which clearly meet policy (Florida politician, President, his son and ship). The see also is really useful here too.
Boleyn (
talk) 11:55, 8 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Keep All items are plausible search terms. Ships are usually included in DAB without their prefix - not to mention his son.
TheMagikCow (
talk) 17:15, 8 January 2017 (UTC)reply
That's good, thank you, and then this AFD can be closed as there are no "Delete" votes. However it should not be seen as if the addition of just one item made the difference. Besides the fact that the 3 original items are valid, there are other likely "Ronald Reagan" items to be added in the future. For example films and paintings and biographical books, as suggested by contents of
Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation), which PamD pointed to. In that vein, i just Googled and found my way to American Experience film "Reagan", which seems notable ...which turns out to have a Wikipedia article
Reagan (film) which probably is a valid item for this disambiguation page. And there will likely be more. "There will likely be more items" is a valid argument for disambiguation pages in general. --
doncram 21:50, 8 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Thanks,
Neve-selbert, for withdrawing and for the many good edits you've been making to dabs lately. Best wishes,
Boleyn (
talk) 21:56, 8 January 2017 (UTC)reply
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.