Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:55:28 -0000 (GMT) From: Haukur ?orgeirsson haukurth@hi.is Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: How to bring back people who don't want to bother? To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Message-ID: 42791.206.165.150.70.1137070528.squirrel@webmail.hi.is Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
(This discussion is on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changes_in_immigrant_groups_extended_family_pos... )
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.
Nevertheless it would be possible to write a well-referenced article on this topic in encyclopedic style and if we had such an article it would be kept if brought up for AfD.
How would you recommend we proceed?
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Thanks for taking a look!
Regards, Haukur
That entry should and must be deleted. It doens't exclude the possibility of getting a new worthy entry later if the topic is deemed useful
Likewise on the hoaxes. They should be gone, but that doens't exclude the possiblity of someone recreatgn the entry with good content.
The problem with AFD is that most people don't seem to understand that it doens't forbid you recreating the entry under a different and imprived version. Afd is NOT final. It judges the entry that currently exists, not entries that will exist at some point.
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