Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Superior border

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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 keep. (non-admin closure) sst✈ 05:10, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Superior border[edit]

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I am proposing deletion of Superior border and Inferior border because these pages do not help readers. My reasons are:

  1. Readers are unlikely to search for "Superior" or "Inferior" border without specifying of what
  2. A reader making this search will be unambiguously knowing what structure they want to know
  3. (Almost) every anatomical structure has a superior border, as do many others
  4. It will confuse search results to have a specific article which only lists two superior borders -- readers will be expecting all borders (which will be an impossible list to compile) and are better off using a search engine.
  5. If we have a precedent of disambiguating borders, we might as well create 5,000+ disambiguation pages for: Anterior border, Posterior border, Medial border, Lateral border, Deep border, Superficial border ad nauseum.

Therefore it benefits readers if we delete this article

Note that the current two links here are redirects. Tom (LT) (talk) 03:13, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. /wiae /tlk 04:06, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. --Gimubrc (talk) 19:01, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Wikipedia:DABCHEAP, there aren't really any negatives to having many DAB pages like this sort. I don't exactly what you mean by "It will confuse search results to have a specific article which only lists two superior borders" but again there isn't any reason why we can't list all of the examples if need be. WP:DEMOLISH If there is a significant over this page being misleading in some way or another, then I might change my vote.--Prisencolin (talk) 05:47, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

  • Keep A quick Google will show that both 'superior border' and 'inferior border' are being applied to just about any anatomical feature - heart, brainstem, femur, oral cavity... however, the only instances where the terms are used w/o modifiers are with the pancreas and scapula. As such it does make sense that someone searching for the blank expressions might specifically want either of these, and judging from the frequency of the terms in the literature the likelihood is sufficiently high to warrant "highjacking" a general term.-- Elmidae (talk) 07:43, 13 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.