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 nominator lists a clear policy-based reason for the disambiguation. The discussion shows that the issues raised supporting keeping of this article may be trivially solved in ways that are policy-based. I'll delete this page, and leave it up to the contributors to this discussion if they'd prefer to create a redirect, a list, or just go eat some pie and get on with their lives. Aaron Brenneman (talk) 04:33, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Left-handed (disambiguation)[edit]

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Disambiguation page with one entry, see WP:TWODABS and Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Partial title matches. We don't list partial matches. This was prodded but prod removed by User:Andrew Davidson without a reason being given. Boleyn (talk) 15:08, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nomination. Neelix (talk) 15:12, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, no Wikipedia ambiguity to disambiguate. -- JHunterJ (talk) 16:07, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:57, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep. I am not convinced by the nominator's reading of Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Partial title matches - the policy quite clearly allows certain partial title matches on disambiguation pages, basically where a reader might reasonably be expected to be searching on just the partial title, and two of the "See also" entries ("left-handed particle" and left-handed material) seem to meet this, at least to the point where, for each of them, there seem to be other equally-valid completions for the full search term (for instance, "left-handed media" for left-handed material) but where the reader would be able to work out where to go from this page. There may well be equally good ways for serving people searching for "left-handed" in these cases that do not involve keeping this article - but if so, we should make sure they are in place before deleting this article. PWilkinson (talk) 12:48, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I find it hard to believe that someone would type "left-handed" into the search bar when looking for the Negative index metamaterials article. Chirality (physics) is already linked on Handedness (disambiguation). I see no other articles someone might intend when typing "left-handed" into the search bar. Neelix (talk) 16:34, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Chirality (physics) is not already directly linked on Handedness (disambiguation) - but I accept that adding it would be a fairly minor edit. However, I find it quite easy to believe that someone might come across a reference to left-handed materials or media without having any idea that these were types of metamaterials, let alone negative index ones. There might be an acceptable alternative way to deal with this problem, but I currently don't see it. PWilkinson (talk) 09:00, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. This could be a good place to form a list of articles about left handed functions, as the "see also" section is attempting to cover. There are plenty of additional articles to add to such a list which will give a user an easier way to find them. Not specifically disambiguation but as with most of our disambiguation pages, we form a list of usages of the term in question. And ultimately with these kinds of pages, aren't we here to help users navigate wikipedia? Trackinfo (talk) 01:03, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
A list article is a good place for lists of things "about" particular functions. Disambiguation pages are not articles, not even list articles. In particular, they do not list partial title matches, but instead help users navigate Wikipedia by disambiguating ambiguous Wikipedia articles. List articles help users navigate by listing topics by subject area. -- JHunterJ (talk) 12:29, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Trackinfo, the kind of list you describe would not be called "Left-handed (disambiguation)", and would not benefit from the edit history of this page. If you are interested in creating such a list, it would be better to create one at an appropriate title rather than have this page kept so it can be reformulated as that list. Neelix (talk) 15:17, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Keep it's WP:PRIMARYUSAGE is obvious, thus why it's main results is Handedness, but this specifially refers to many things in multiple fields. LuigiToeness (talk) 02:54, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
What things? -- JHunterJ (talk) 19:18, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Someone coming across a book like this or a journal article like this might easily come to us with a search query of "left-handed". Far more plausible search term in that case than Zoo would be for the Baltimore Zoo (the example given in the Partial Title Matches guideline.) --j⚛e decker ^talk 17:46, 8 July 2014 (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.