Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Conlon

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was ambiguous. Votes to keep and delete were evenly split. The article itself is a very short description of name and its origins. By past convention, such articles are generally moved to Wiktionary unless there is a specific reason to retain them - usually as a disambiguation page for multiple notable persons by that name. Since this page is an orphan, that argument does not appear to apply.

Since the transwiki process does not destroy history, it does not require full VfD concensus to move an article into the transwiki queue. I am going to exercise my rights as an ordinary editor to mark this article for transwiki to Wiktionary. Rossami (talk) 02:08, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Conlon

An Irish surname. Probably not notable. -- Scott e^iπ + 1 = 0 20:36, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)

Send for Cleanup. - Mailer Diablo 06:54, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete, genealogy. Wyss 10:17, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Weak keep, I think it's OK. It's not genealogy as such. I'm going to delete that last sentence, "I don't know the history of the name but have always felt it to be an uncommon name, so if anyone knows more about it then please add to this entry." which a) goes without saying, and b) is unencyclopedic in style—encyclopedia articles are not chat rooms and we're not supposed to "break the fourth wall" and wink at the reader. Dpbsmith (talk) 02:23, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Delete - non-notable. Bacchiad 08:00, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Keep, it's a legitimate short-article topic. dbenbenn | talk 23:50, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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