Instead of redirecting or deleting, how about getting someone to merge it into the
immigration article?
On 1/12/06, Haukur Þorgeirsson <haukurth(a)hi.is> wrote:
Surely it is
easier to change an article into a one-line stub than it
is to put it through the non-speedy deletion processes.
Let's do a case study. Here's an article which looks to me like useless
semi-coherent original research which we'd be better off without:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changes_in_immigrant_groups_extended_family_po…
Yet the topic - which the article does a very poor job of defining - is
probably worthwhile.
Actually I don't think the topic is at all appropriate for an
encyclopedia. It'd make a good essay, but I seriously doubt you'd see
such a title (or indeed any which start out "Changes in...") in, for
example, Britannica. For Wikipedia sometimes we get strange article
titles like this for what is really a subpage of another article, but
that doesn't seem to be the case here.
How would you recommend we proceed?
Redirect to [[extended family]] (optionally merging if you think it's
worthwhile).
Can you quickly salvage a coherent useful stub out of
this?
Regards,
Haukur
Anthony
>
How would you recommend we proceed?
>
> Redirect to [[extended family]] (optionally merging if you think it's
> worthwhile).
Actually, I'd recommend implementing semi-deletion so that the article
could be deleted while the content kept viewable by everyone. But
since semi-deletion doesn't exist, redirects are the next best thing.
Anthony