Talk:Yuchun

Speedy deletion

Speedily deleting this is ridiculous. This is part of a series of mass-tagging enacted by Ryulong (most of which I am unable to keep up with) and being deleted by admins who I do not think are thoroughly-enough checking the validity of these claims. There is a person with the name 'Yuchun'. Redirecting that name to the person's full name makes complete sense here. If there happen to be other people who share the name (there are in this case) then rather than deleting, someone should upgrade the redirect into a disambiguation page with a list of people with the name Yuchun. This is simply deleting work at initiating this list. If there were a disambiguation page with only 2 people on it and there happened to be 10 people who could be on the page, wouldn't it make sense to add the other 8 rather than deleting it because it is incomplete? A redirect is merely a disambig with 1 disambiguation, it should not be deleted when the redirect is relevant, simply upgraded if it could be more thorough.

Simply checking the introduction to WP:RFD makes it pretty clear: "Turning redirects into fleshed-out encyclopedic articles is wholly encouraged at Wikipedia. Be bold." or "Redirects should not be deleted simply because they do not have any incoming links. Please do not list this as a reason to delete a redirect." A reason of harm: "a redirect may contain nontrivial edit history" What is the reason for deleting this and other disambiguating redirects instead of expanding the disambiguation to be of greater use? I have already done this to several Japanese names as I have learned about other people who share the name. Tyciol (talk) 06:05, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Yuchun is obviously a common given name in China, as I've found another article on a person with this name. Don't make a redirect for one person when it is a common name.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 06:11, 3 August 2009 (UTC)