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. Randykitty (talk) 17:19, 22 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Eastern (country subdivision)[edit]

Eastern (country subdivision) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log · Stats)

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Also nominated:

Northern (country subdivision) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Western (country subdivision) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

Southern (country subdivision) (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)

These pages have an odd disambiguator but do not explain their subjects. Instead they are formatted as disambiguation pages (with format errors) but in reality perform no useful function (e.g. no-one is going to come to Eastern (country subdivision) if they're actually looking for Eastern Thailand). Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 08:23, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Kpgjhpjm 08:24, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Geography-related deletion discussions. – Uanfala (talk) 08:39, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete all unless someone us able to come up with a good justification for keeping that hasn't occurred to me. Mccapra (talk) 10:06, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete all per WP:PTM. Definitely not dab pages. Clarityfiend (talk) 10:41, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• My original Keep comment ran, "How are these not dab pages? The OP says, "No one will get here". Yet, if I search for "Eastern", it's offered at the end. If I search for "Eastern Pro..." And that's when I realized that, no, in fact this is different. It links to the articles linked in Eastern, but is itself an orphan. This is long obsolete, as the rest of the dab infrastructure for these types of articles has evolved but it's stayed static. As creator of the articles in question, I say Delete. --Golbez (talk) 13:28, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Read PTM. For example, nobody refers to eastern Thailand (or anything else I can think of off the top of my head) as simply Eastern. Maybe a college? Clarityfiend (talk) 18:59, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Are you trying to convince me that I'm wrong? :P --Golbez (talk) 19:26, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• I didn't see the delete lvote at the end. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:53, 15 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge back into the parent DABs and redirect as {{R from incomplete disambiguation}}. Since these mainly just link to other DAB pages, and none of the parent dab page (e.g. Northern (disambiguation), Eastern (disambiguation), etc.) are that long, there no length concern about merging them there. On the whole, these are valid dab pages since most of the entries meet WP:PTM, though admittedly some entries should be in the "See also" and not in the main body. Overall though, it's easier for navigation to merge them back up to the parent dabs. ---- Patar knight - ^chat/_{contributions} 17:44, 21 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete all. I would have no objection to including e.g. Eastern District (disambiguation) in the 'See also' section of Eastern. I think that these four titles should be deleted, however, as they don't constitute disambiguation pages on their own, and there is no reasonable place for them to redirect to. That is to say, it is no more reasonable in principle for Eastern (country subdivision) to redirect to Eastern than to Eastern District or Eastern Region, etc. Cnilep (talk) 08:27, 22 April 2019 (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.