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. At any rate no consensus to delete, the discussion is about whether to keep this as a dab page or redirect it to somewhere, but that is properly a discussion for the article talk page and not for AfD. Sandstein 10:08, 30 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary[edit]

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Contested prod of a disambiguation page. WP:PTM says, "A disambiguation page is not a search index. Do not add a link that merely contains part of the page title, or a link that includes the page title in a longer proper name, where there is no significant risk of confusion or reference." All the links on this page are to things that simply have the word "Temporary" in the title, not to things that are called temporary. The only possible exception is that, at least in U.S. English, a temporary worker might sometimes be called "a temporary." That is the only context I can think of in which the word might be used as a noun. So, either delete or redirect to Temporary work. R'n'B (call me Russ) 11:40, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Jinkinson talk to me What did he do now? 13:03, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect I think that this disambiguation page wolud be best fit to redirect to Temporary work and the article for temporary work should have a For other uses pointing to temp. --Jeffrd10 (talk) 13:21, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I see no problem with this as a disambig. I certainly see no advantage to be gained by removing it. Redirecting it to one example, over all others, is just plain wrong. It's not the most logically coherent disambig ever, but that's hardly our most pressing problem. Andy Dingley (talk) 15:36, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep but remove the partial title matches in computing, and leave just with the dicdef and the 3 SAs (ie links to Temp (disambiguation) and ((lookfrom))and ((intitle)), the 2nd and 3rd of which I've just added). That will enable people to find whatever they were looking for, and is much more helpful than just having nothing at all and landing them with a straight search. Do we need to WP:IAR? If so, then so be it. I don't see that the computing uses are any more significant or dab-page-worthy than the many other uses, but it's a dab page which has been around for 8 years so someone out there thinks it useful. I'm amazed that there doesn't seem to be a band called "The Temporary" or a novel or film called "Temporary", etc, but that seems to be the case, as yet. PamD 16:29, 12 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to Temporary work. A dab page with only one (barely) legitimate entry and a bunch of See alsos doesn't make a whole lot of sense, which is why I've don't run across them. Clarityfiend (talk) 06:53, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - imperfect, but this is a sensible disambiguator, particularly if a dicdef was added. Also, procedurally, this nomination is in the wrong place, and should be at MfD, I believe. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 09:03, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Luke, with regard to process, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Article alerts/Archive, which shows that disambiguation pages are frequently brought to AFD. Further, in the relatively few cases where they have been brought to MFD, many of the nominations have been closed as procedurally improper. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 14:21, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  - Fair enough. I have seen disambiguation pages brought to AfD, but I've always thought that they were in the wrong place; they're not articles, after all. :) Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 14:34, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    - Disambiguation articles are articles in the article namespace. MFD is for other namespaces. Uncle G (talk) 02:17, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Weak keep, but remove all the partial title matches as PamD describes (except leave temporary work). In a case like this, I'd almost be more inclined to have soft redirect to wiktionary. I'm really not sure a straight redirect to temporary work is appropriate. In my experience, such work, if abbreviated, is more commonly called "temp" than simply "temporary". I'm sure it does sometimes happen, as with any sort of elliptical shortening, but I think the dictionary definition is going to be more helpful than a redirect. older ≠ wiser 14:42, 13 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- You should note that the various partial title matches are often known as simply "temporaries" in that field. So readers will come to Wikipedia wanting to look up what "a temporary" is. Uncle G (talk) 02:17, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  - If it is verifiable information available in the article, that's fine. Otherwise, disambiguation pages should not assert usage that is not supported by a linked article. older ≠ wiser
  - I'm not convinced the other entries are normally referred to just as "temporary". Clarityfiend (talk) 05:58, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Temporary work", or by extension "temporary worker", is something I've definitely seen referred to as a "temporary" or a "temp". Ditto temporary rank. Lukeno94 (tell Luke off here) 10:03, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 03:25, 22 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to temporary work or soft redirect to wiktionary:temporary. buff bills 7701 12:47, 29 December 2013 (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.