Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ghanaian name

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The result was no consensus. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:14, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ghanaian name

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I noticed that this article has a misleading article title and is a duplicate of another title "Akan names". The various ethnic groups in Ghana have a completely different system so the Akan system cannot possibly speak for all. The title should have been "Akan names" but since another article with the same title exist I suggest a merge the two articles or deletion of this one. Masssly (talk) 20:30, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I completed the nomination. The material is essentially identical as Akan names, with this article having an extra unsourced section on "personality types" for the different names, so I don't think a merge would be useful; also not sure about a redirect given that there are other groups/languages in Ghana (as far as I can tell), but I do support getting rid of this somehow. ₆an⁶sh₆ 23:42, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Hi, If so why not we restructure this article as the name implies: Ghanaian names to cover all the naming based in Ghana as stated by Masssly rather than deleting. Also you can notice clearly at the bottom this article it shares a common template {{Names in world cultures}}. Which includes Akan names as well. The best thing to do in my view here is to keep the title and make the article represent what it should as in Ghanaian names; there by representing all the ethnic groups even if they have individual articles. →Enock4seth ^(talk) 13:05, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Reconstruction of the whole article as suggested by Enock4seth in a more representative manner is not a bad idea, compare with Zimbabwean names. The article started as a merger from Traditional Names in Ghana by Dominic. Masssly (talk) 13:18, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Uh, Zimbabwean names doesn't have a single source, so I'm going to tag it as such... Anyways, I guess an expansion in scope would work here as well. But what should we do with the current content? Because Akan names of course would still exist. ₆an⁶sh₆ 20:02, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 14:52, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:58, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NorthAmerica¹⁰⁰⁰ 10:30, 22 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Until someone adds info on other peoples/languages, redirect to Akan names, tag as {{R with possibilities}}. Some details could be also be merged there. – Fayenatic London 12:39, 29 March 2014 (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.