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. A Train ^{take the} 04:56, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lists of hypocoristics[edit]

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List of hypocoristics for Portuguese names (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

List of hypocoristics for Spanish names (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

List of hypocoristics for Dutch names (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

List of hypocoristics for English names (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

List of short name forms (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

WP:WINAD. These article are merely lists of names belonging to a language (i.e. a word list) with no prose or explanatory text or encyclopedic purpose. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. This is the kind of thing that Wiktionary is made for, and so they have been transwikied to Wiktionary and may now be deleted.

• See precedent at, for example, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of first names, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of given names by language, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of East African given names, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Vietnamese given names, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Slavic given names, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Zulu first names, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Persian given names, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Zazaki given names, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Hungarian given names, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of the most common Russian names, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Lithuanian given names‎, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of French given names, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Armenian given names 2, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Portuguese given names, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Roman praenomina, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Modern Greek given names, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Spanish given names Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Swedish given names, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Latvian given names, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Romanian given names, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Irish given names, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Italian given names, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Kurdish given names, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of given names, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Hispanic surnames, etc.

Deletion after transwiki is standard procedure. Delete. Dmcdevit·t 23:06, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, as the articles have already been transwiki'd.--TBCΦtalk? 00:39, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Agreed, not really encyclopedic material and the precendent is clear. -Elmer Clark 01:15, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep The explanatory material in the first paragraph could include more information, but it's still more than a list of names.Circumspect 07:40, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Feel free to merge any intro material to an article about hypocoristics, but such material doesn't justify the keeping of a word list, or all word lists would be kept. Dmcdevit·t 09:23, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Any explanations of what hypocoristics are, and how they are formed in various cultures, belongs in the article on the subject, which is hypocoristic, and which, as one can see, has plenty of spare room for further expansion. Uncle G 13:58, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete All as dictionary material. Nuttah68 10:12, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - per nom and everyone else, Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Moreschi ^{Request a recording?} 11:45, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete as per arguments above. Noroton 18:06, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - this seems to provide useful and structured information about personal names in the English Language. Expanding the article to give more info about the derivation and conventions for nicknames would improve this article. Dave w74 23:56, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Could never hope to be comprehensive, and if not comprehensive is useless. Reverse Gear 05:30, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - this article is useful. I found it with a google search and it answered my question. It is as comprehensive as most other wikipedia articles and could be expanded. There are plenty of other wikipedia articles that are effectively just lists. Poujeaux 09:03, 22 February 2007 (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.