Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Boggan (disambiguation)

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The result was Nomination withdrawn and the concerns of the "delete" voters have been answered. (Non-admin) SHEFFIELDSTEEL^TALK 21:12, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Boggan (disambiguation)

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Purports to be a disambiguation page but is purely a collection of red links, with no way for anyone to sort out whether any of these might actually be reasonable future article topics. Russ (talk) 14:27, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

• Pointless Comment Yikes, red link jackpot! Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps)} 14:30, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete. It can be recreated when (and if) any of those redlinks actually become blue. DJ Clayworth (talk) 17:34, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
• Delete, unneeded. Per WP:MOSDAB#Red links, they should only exist on DAB pages if they are also (a red link) on a real page somewhere. The only entry for which that is true is Tim Boggan, one of the Ping Pong Diplomacy players.[1] He does seem to meet WP:ATHLETE. Once you remove all other entries ... there's no need for an article. I'm not even sure a hatnote is appropriate. --Dhartung | Talk 17:38, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
• Question: Would it be worth replacing this with a redirect to Toboggan, as a short form of the word, until such time as the disambiguation is needed? —Quasirandom (talk) 17:54, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Boggan is currently an article about a race in a role-playing game. Replacing Boggan (disambiguation) with a rediretc to anywhere seems pretty pointless, becasue nobody is likely to type that into the serachbox. -- saberwyn 22:01, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Although, between the RPG race, the athlete mentioned by Dhartung, the slhortening/slang of toboggan given by Quadirandom, and a See Also to the slight difference in spelling that is Bogan and Bogan (disambiguation), you cound probably get a working disambig. -- saberwyn 00:18, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
    • (Oy -- I didn't even notice the RPG.) I'd support an edit to that. —Quasirandom (talk) 00:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
      • I've rewritten the disambig by cutting everything, adding Boggan and Tim Boggan as entries, and adding the disambig pages for Toboggan and Bogan. Thoughts? -- saberwyn 01:30, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• Keep as rewritten —Preceding unsigned comment added by Quasirandom (talk • contribs)
• Keep, now looks like an acceptable (though minimal) dab page. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• OK, I withdraw the nomination. --Russ (talk) 09:55, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

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.