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The result was Keep. Shimeru 08:58, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ekaterini[edit]

The idea of disambiguation pages is to provide guidance between several likely outcomes of a given search. From WP:DAB: Ask yourself: When a reader enters this term and pushes "Go", what article would they most likely be expecting to view as a result? (For example, when someone looks up Joker, would they find information on a comedian? On a card? On Batman's nemesis? On the hit song or album by The Steve Miller Band?)

People won't search for Ekaterini, or most first names for that matter, to reach any of the targets included in this disambiguation - in reality it is an unencyclopedic list of everyone named Ekaterini disguised as a disambiguation page.

Exceptions from this do exist, namely when people are known primarily by their first name - see for instance Harald, Haakon. This does not, of course, apply in this case. Punkmorten 08:51, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge/redirect to List of people by name: Ek.--TBCΦtalk? 09:15, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as useful disambiguation page. The nom states that people will not search for Ekaterini, but we do not know this. Bradycardia 21:27, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep. This is hardly a list of everyone named "Ekaterini" (just 3 who have WP articles). A merge into List of people by name: Ek is not appropriate as the "List of people by name" is maintained alphabetically by last name, whereas this disambig page is for a first name. I'm tempted to suggest redirecting to Catherine II of Russia, but her Russian name is "Yekaterina" or "Ekaterina", not "Ekaterini", which is a Greek name. -- Black Falcon 08:40, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This is, as Falconage above pointed out, not an 'encyclopedic' list. Rather, it serves it's purpose well - I have, at many times, searched for people by first name. Possibly, you might want to consider making it a redirect to the most 'well-known' of these people, and have disambiguation at the top of that page. Black-Velvet 08:22, 16 March 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.