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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.

Adding a new AfD discussion

Adding an AfD to this page does not add it to the main page at WP:AFD. Similarly, removing an AfD from this page does not remove it from the main page at WP:AFD. If you want to nominate an article for deletion, go through the process on that page before adding it to this page. To add a discussion to this page, follow these steps:

1. Edit this page and add {{Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PageName}} to the top of the list. Replace "PageName" with the relevant article name, i.e. the one on the existing AFD discussion. Also, indicate the title of the article in the edit summary as it is particularly helpful to add a link to the article in the edit summary. When you save the page, the discussion will automatically appear.
2. You should also tag the AfD by adding {{subst:delsort|Disambiguations|~~~~}} to it, which will inform editors that it has been listed here. You may place this tag above or below the nomination statement or at the end of the discussion thread.

There are a few scripts and tools that can make this easier.

Removing a closed AfD discussion

Closed AfD discussions are automatically removed by a bot.

Other types of discussions

You can also add and remove other discussions (prod, CfD, TfD etc.) related to Disambiguations. For the other XfD's, the process is the same as AfD (except {{Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/PageName}} is used for MFD and {{transclude xfd}} for the rest). For PRODs, adding a link with {{prodded}} will suffice.

Further information

For further information see Wikipedia's deletion policy and WP:AfD for general information about Articles for Deletion, including a list of article deletions sorted by day of nomination.

Archived discussions (starting from September 2007) may be found at:

• WikiProject Deletion sorting/Disambiguations/archive

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

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Redirect to Twitter as it is the clear primary topic in a WP:2DABS situation. Page view stats show views for the DAB peaked in late July 2023, when the rebranding was announced. - CHAMPION ^{(talk) (contributions) (logs)} 12:56, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Internet, Websites, and Disambiguations. - CHAMPION ^{(talk) (contributions) (logs)} 12:56, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment. Afd is for deletion, not discussion. Georgia guy (talk) 14:50, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose and speedy close: This should not be for deletion as it is still a beneficial DAB page. If you think "X.com' should be the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, that should be a new discussion at Talk:X.com, not here. Also, "X.com" did not exist until August 2023 and per those stats, it has steadily decreased in views, so a WP:RECENTISM bias applies. This is also covering three subjects, not just two. Trailblazer101 (talk) 14:58, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose and speedy close. The nominator did not show that the article is unnecessary, misleading, unhelpful or in any other way non-compliant with Wikipedia policies or practice. The nomination is, essentially, WP:IDONTLIKEIT. — kashmīrī ^TALK 15:25, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose. A valuable disambiguation page. I don't see any issue with it. Perhaps a majority will be expecting Twitter, but I don't feel the DAB page is problematic for that reason alone. It does seem like WP:RECENTISM. GhostOfNoMeme 22:04, 21 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Per WP:DPT, let's have a look at WikiNav for X.com which shows us the meta:Research:Wikipedia clickstream for the month of June. There were 33.1k incoming views, which is a big mass of readers, yet only we could identify only 2.89k outgoing clickstreams towards the proposed primary topic (~9%), plus 1.21k to the historical bank topic (~3.5%), and 752 to the concept of single-letter domains (~2%) which is the first link.

So Twitter only overtook the other meanings recently. Since it's a very short, straightforward list, it doesn't seem likely that most of these readers were very confused. If we just discard all the traffic that didn't click through (which is like magical thinking, but possibly useful for the purpose of comparison), for June the ratios are ~54% Twitter, ~22% bank, ~14% concept. I wouldn't say this was typically considered primary topic. The trend line is favorable, so maybe in a few months time it might become more efficient to explain this inside the Twitter article and move this disambiguation page aside. --Joy (talk) 08:26, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's also interesting to look at overall monthy page views for these topics. Twitter has seen a huge surge in traffic over the last couple of years, but it's recently subsided. Given this general amount of interest, I'd have expected the surge in interest in Twitter as X.com to match it, but it didn't, it's only started to happen more recently. --Joy (talk) 13:45, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: This data is insightful and admittedly furthers the prior consensus from the most recent RM at Talk:Twitter/Archive 10#Requested move 17 May 2024 that the "X.com" domain is not entirely the primary or more common name yet despite being synonymous with Twitter. Should any concrete data prove otherwise at a later date, a new discussion would need to be had regarding this, given that consensus directly affects this DAB. Trailblazer101 (talk) 15:50, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Bishop's School (disambiguation) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View AfD | edits since nomination)

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This is a WP:ONEOTHER situation: a two-item disambiguation page for a term with a WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. I added a hatnote to The Bishop's School, so the disambiguation page isn't accomplishing anything. - Eureka Lott 17:33, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: Concur that this is WP:ONEOTHER and should be deleted. - UtherSRG (talk) 17:41, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. --Un assiolo (talk) 17:51, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 18:31, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Schools-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:30, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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

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Not a valid disambiguation page - Altenmann >talk 16:37, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Completely artificial. Athel cb (talk) 16:42, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: no evidence of use of term. — Alien333 (what I did & why I did it wrong) 17:04, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 18:24, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Europe-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 18:54, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Term only used by the certain NWO crackpots. Nate • (chatter) 21:40, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete completely made up. Mccapra (talk) 23:47, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Completely unnecessary disambiguation page. Felicia (talk) 16:54, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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