On 1/12/06, Haukur Þorgeirsson haukurth@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_pos...
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