Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Soni (Indian family name)

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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 07:01, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Soni (Indian family name)

• Delete: Wikipedia is not a phonebook. Already deleted once via WP:PROD but quickly recreated. Maybe meant to be a dab page but has no links. —Wknight94 (talk) 02:59, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Directory/Dicdef type article, non-notable. Can't this be speedy? --The Way 05:44, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Delete per CSD A1 and possibly A7. No possible improvement. Cheers -- Imoeng 06:14, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletions. -- Ageo020 (Talk • Contribs) 10:36, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: I'm not sure what the standards are here but there is an entire category tree devoted to surnames, Category:Surnames, which includes Category:Indian family names. But most of them have some content as opposed to this one so it probably is borderline speedy. Dictdefs are specifically not speedy criteria though - see the first bullet point at WP:CSD#Non-criteria. —Wknight94 (talk) 11:16, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Most of the articles in Category:Surnames are disambig pages or about famous/notable families (eg. Baca Family of New Mexico or Auerbach (family)). Most of the pages in Category:Indian family names are about casetes or gotras. Probably, there are some deletion-worthy articles as well -- they should go. utcursch | talk 12:10, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. utcursch | talk 12:10, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - Important article. And I have also added more matter on the article. I intend to add still more, so that the article doesn't remain a stub. Jagat Soni 13:07, 27 October 2006 (UTC)— Possible single purpose account: Jagat Soni (talk • contribs) has made few or no other contributions outside this topic.
• Delete We generally don't have an article on each name in existence in the world, although we have articles on notable individuals WITH that name. See: Mudd. Edison 16:13, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Comment If I read this correctly it is the Indian equivalent of "smith". Now smith as a name isn't listed in WIkipedia so neither should soni, but, but smith as an occupation is! --Mike 19:07, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, assuming that no famous person has this name. Redirect if someone does. -Amarkov ^babble 23:11, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

• Redirect to Ambika Soni per Amarkov  Doctor Bruno  17:26, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

• Probably you didn't notice this, but the article is not located at Soni (which is already a disambig page). The article is located at Soni (Indian family name). Therefore, a redirect to Ambika Soni is not justified. utcursch | talk 09:32, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete: Wikipedia is not a telephone directoryJoshygeorge 07:09, 28 October 2006 (UTC).
• Delete, Indian name cruft. This type of article is unfortunately very common. Punkmorten 09:08, 28 October 2006 (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.