Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tracy Beaker (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 delete. wbm1058 (talk) 21:53, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Tracy Beaker (disambiguation)

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This is not a proper subject for a disambiguation page; rather than listing unrelated topics that happen to share the same name (like Mercury (planet), Mercury (element), and Mercury (mythology), this page merely lists installments in a franchise, for which there is no evidence that every installment is known solely by the name of the character. An existing page at Tracy Beaker (franchise) was improperly blanked to be redirected here, but this goes against the outcome of a previous AfD, so discussion and consensus are needed to take such a step. bd2412 T 01:45, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. MT Train^Talk 06:00, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I Oppose. The Tracy Beaker (franchise) merely just was a copy of information that already existed on List of The Story of Tracy Beaker episodes, List of The Dumping Ground episodes, List of Tracy Beaker Returns episodes and List of Tracy Beaker series characters and this franchise page only has TV information touches on the show...there's nothing on the books, film, spin off's etc. And more to the point, the main pages struggle with references as it is because at the end of it all, primarily just children watch it, the first book was from the 90s before the internet and the first series was 16 years ago. And you've said "no evidence is known solely by the name of the character"-this new page has done nothing more except swap "disambiguation" for "franchise" still with Tracy Beaker.

Tracy Beaker Returns, The Dumping Ground and The Story of Tracy Beaker, book and TV pages, already link in the infobox and I'm personally working on improving them. And another thing: you say they're "unrelated", but same universe, but a franchise page practically "relates" them whilst the disambiguation page merely puts The Dumping Ground under "see also" not "may refer to".Grangehilllover (talk) 06:51, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please review WP:DABCONCEPT. Differently-named installments of a single franchise are not ambiguous to each other. You have not made a single point relevant to the disambiguation problem. Please also read my rationale more carefully. I did not say that these are "unrelated", I said exactly the opposite of that; it is precisely because they are related that they are not ambiguous topics. bd2412 T 11:37, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@BD2412: I left a message on your talk page, but if you didn't get it. Because I'm heavily involved in editing Tracy Beaker, an awful lot of vandalism occurs, but I'm going to some how work with the franchise page, but we need the disambiguation page

. Grangehilllover (talk) 11:46, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I have replied there. Perhaps a set index article would be appropriate here (see Wikipedia:Set index articles), but not a disambiguation page. bd2412 T 11:51, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. That is not what a dab page is for. Everything there should already be in Tracy Beaker, or in the case of episode lists, in sub-articles. Clarityfiend (talk) 22:21, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Sppedy deletion requested – I created the page and have requested it be deleted per WP:G7. Linguist^un Eins ^uno 17:22, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - I now understand and now agree after talking to another user. 17:41, 2 April 2018 (UTC)— Preceding unsigned comment added by Grangehilllover (talk • contribs)

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