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. Sarahj2107 (talk) 13:08, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Otaran[edit]

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Non-notable original research created by SPA account with a clear COI JMHamo (talk) 16:27, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as per my previous speedy attempt and prod attempt: 'no discernible notability, nothing to de orphan it too, negligible content, and the two main editors have no user pages, and no contributions other than this article only since 2006 and 2010 respectively, and would both appear to have COI. I really did try to find something I could link to this from and some notability sources but no success. Eno Lirpa (talk) 06:13, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

These name articles are somewhat like disambiguation pages in that we don't normally expect other articles to link to them. ~Kvng (talk) 00:35, 12 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In the interests of openness I have put down all my reasons, but surely the main reason is notability - it seems to have none? And, if not linkable anywhere in regard to the primary content then also no encyclopedic relevance? Eno Lirpa (talk) 10:35, 12 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - Disambiguation pages and the like are not required to meet WP:GNG. Sure there's not much going on here, but it's a stub and should be kept per WP:TEARDOWN. ~Kvng (talk) 17:42, 12 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, it doesn't function like a disambiguation since there's no one on Wikipedia with the surname "Otaran" and as a surname article, it's completely unreferenced and unverifiable. -- Tavix ^(talk) 20:40, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete at best for now and restart when there's content available. SwisterTwister talk 01:11, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - It's not a dab page (since it doesn't redirect the reader to any other Wikipedia pages), and completely unsourced. Searches show that there are folks with this name, but nothing about the name itself which makes it notable. If there were notable folks/places with this name, it could be the start of a dab page, but as of now, nothing. Onel5969 ^{TT me} 12:39, 15 March 2016 (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.