Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Disambiguations

This is a collection of discussions on the deletion of articles related to Disambiguations. It is one of many deletion lists coordinated by WikiProject Deletion sorting. Anyone can help maintain the list on this page.

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Disambiguations

DWLC

DWLC (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Vague dab page. Dab pages don't work with only one page and one redirect.

I'm against redirection. I'd rather have DWLC-AM, the only page on the dab, moved to the namespace for the sake of WP:NAMINGCONVENTION. SBKSPP (talk) 06:28, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Disambiguations and Philippines. SBKSPP (talk) 06:28, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
• Move DWLC-AM to this title, and delete the redirect DWLC-TV which has no mention at the target. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:17, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
• Move per Shhhnotsoloud. BD2412 T 00:28, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

DYKC

DYKC (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Vague dab page. Dab pages don't work with only one existing page.

I'm against redirection. I'd rather have DYKC-AM, the only page on the dab, moved to the namespace for the sake of WP:NAMINGCONVENTION. SBKSPP (talk) 06:26, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Disambiguations and Philippines. SBKSPP (talk) 06:26, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
• Move DYKC-AM to this title and delete redirect DYKC-TV which has no mention at target. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:19, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
• Move per Shhhnotsoloud. BD2412 T 00:27, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

DYNU

DYNU (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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Vague dab page. Dab pages don't work with only one existing page.

I'm against redirection. I'd rather have DYNU-FM, the only page on the dab, moved to the namespace for the sake of WP:NAMINGCONVENTION. SBKSPP (talk) 06:24, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Disambiguations and Philippines. SBKSPP (talk) 06:24, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
• There are two entries. Redirect to DYNU-FM and use hatnote {{redirect|DYNU|the TV station|UNTV}}. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:26, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
• Redirect and hatnote per Shhhnotsoloud. BD2412 T 00:27, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Train simulator (disambiguation)

Train simulator (disambiguation) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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A disambiguation page is supposed to list unrelated topics with the same name. This does neither of those - the topics aren't unrelated (all being of the same class of video game) and aren't all called Train Simulator unadorned either. What this really is is a mistitled list of train simulators, which is wholly redundant to the longer list at Train simulator * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 19:00, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Video games and Disambiguations. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 19:03, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
• Move to Train Simulator per WP:DIFFCAPS but keep; Microsoft Train Simulator appears to be called simply Train Simulator at times, so there are at least two potential primary topics. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 19:10, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
• Keep, I removed entries not titled "Train Simulator", it still leaves 3 entries. Microsoft Train Simulator is called in reviews just "Train Simulator", see this review for example: [1]. --Mika1h (talk) 09:39, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

  This still has the same problem. It's still a list of train simulators in disquise, and wholly redundant to the broad concept which already lists two of those games and could easily be modified to include the third. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 16:57, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Keep as this now makes sense due to the changes made by Mika1h. WilsonP NYC (talk) 14:07, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

Keep. Now that it's been cleaned up, it's just a normal disambiguation page for things called "train simulator". Yes, these are all video games. Yes, you could probably find them all on a list of train simulator video games. That is not a valid reason for deleting a dab page. GreenLipstickLesbian (talk) 22:37, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

• Keep: valid dab page for things called "Train Simulator", even if they also all happen to be train simulators and mentioned [elsewhere as such. PamD 09:11, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

Keep. While I agree that these are all in the same genre, they are also all still referred to as "Train Simulator," and there is no primary topic here. This disambig has a valid use case, and is fine to be kept. Has one ever considered Magneton? Pokelego999 (talk) 20:56, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

See also

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Article alerts, a bot-maintained listing of a variety of changes affecting disambiguation pages including deletion discussions