Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Equatorial

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 redirect to Equator. (non-admin closure) ––FormalDude (talk) 16:55, 20 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Everything here is likely a WP:PTM except for Equatorial climate and Equatorial region, which are already covered in Equator in addition to the articles where they redirect. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:52, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Geography and Disambiguations. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:52, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Equator. Dronebogus (talk) 11:27, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Trim the article until it only includes the most important topics, such as Equatorial climate and Equatorial plane. 2601:647:5800:4D2:64A4:7B08:985:3C48 (talk) 19:13, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Redirect to Equator per Dronebogus. Once all the WP:PTMs are removed, the clear primary topic of the term becomes apparent. BD2412 T 20:54, 12 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep with trimming. I don't see a primary topic for this adjective between the meanings related to the Earth's Equator, the celestial Equator, the chemical bond orientation, and the equatorial region (i.e. the tropics). The last meaning itself has a dab entry that gets six times more clicks than the entry for the Earth's Equator [1]. – Uanfala (talk) 14:13, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• delete There's actually nothing here which isn't a PTM. Redirecting to equator just interferes with searching, particularly since a number of the entries are things that are only distantly related to the actual equator. Mangoe (talk) 17:13, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  As is common in dab pages for adjectives, all of the entries do indeed look like WP:PTMs, because the linked articles will typically have titles of the format adjective + noun. Some of the ones here (like Equatorial Guinea) undoubtedly are PTMs. But not all of them are. When the term "equatorial" is used to characterise a climate ("The climate of Papua is equatorial") or to describe an orbital plane ("A geostationary orbit is equatorial"), then what you have is not partial title matches, but different encyclopedically relevant uses of an ambiguous term. – Uanfala (talk) 17:33, 13 November 2022 (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.