Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/SpongeBob SquarePants (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 keep‎. (non-admin closure) Let'srun (talk) 20:31, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

SpongeBob SquarePants (disambiguation)

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The disambiguation page fails WP:DAB as it only lists one topic and not many topics, thus not making it a valid DAB. It's also a good idea to delete the dab pages that redirect to that page as well. kpgamingz (rant me) 19:33, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Television and Disambiguations. kpgamingz (rant me) 19:33, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep SpongeBob SquarePants (the series), SpongeBob SquarePants (character), SpongeBob SquarePants (film series), SpongeBob SquarePants (franchise), and SpongeBob SquarePants (musical) have the same title although they are of the same universe. They are all different pages SpongeBob SquarePants lists the character as another article, and then refers to this disambigation page for other pages of the same name. Changing the "for other uses" on the header to refer to each of these would make it unwieldy. This page refers to a series, character, and other areas. It is more than one topic although they are related. — AMK152 ^{(t • c)} 20:03, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I get that, but dab articles are for unrelated topics. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Powerpuff Girls (disambiguation) for an example. kpgamingz (rant me) 20:41, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Film, Theatre, Video games, and Comics and animation. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 20:37, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep There can be a series page for related topics while also having a DAB page for identically named topics, those are different things. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 20:51, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Kpgamingz says that "dab articles are for unrelated topics", but I see no evidence of that in the WP:DAB article. Did I miss it? If not, I think Kpgamingz is misinterpreting WP:DAB: each of the things listed is a "topic" as referred to in WP:DAB. This disambiguation page seems extremely helpful. -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:01, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I think the nominator doesn't understand WP:DAB (or I'm being stupid), but it looks like it disambiguates between a bunch of pages. In particular:

"Disambiguation is required whenever, for a given word or phrase on which a reader might search, there is more than one existing Wikipedia article to which that word or phrase might be expected to lead"

"The page at Rice is about one usage, called the primary topic, and there is a hatnote guiding readers to Rice (disambiguation) to find the other uses." Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 21:18, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep – Per @User:AMK152. Svartner (talk) 09:01, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Snow Keep plenty of different assumptive uses for this DAB page. AMK152 put it best. Conyo14 (talk) 16:21, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: The term "SpongeBob SquarePants" is not ambiguous. Per WP:DABCONCEPT, this should be an article, not a disambiguation page, because "the primary meaning of" SpongeBob SquarePants "is a broad concept or type of thing that is capable of being described in an article". In fact, the concept of SpongeBob SquarePants already has an article, SpongeBob SquarePants (franchise), and that article describes each of the items listed on this DAB page. voorts (talk/contributions) 01:56, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Zxcvbnm's statement. MKsLifeInANutshell (talk) 11:18, 10 May 2024 (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.