Instead of redirecting or deleting, how about getting
someone to merge it
into the immigration article?
Merging a semi-coherent unsourced essay which is probably original
research into even a half-decent article is not the way to go.
But, by all means, anyone who is arguing that the best way to proceed with
this case is not to delete the article, please do something. And here it
is again:
I will admit that most of the articles in the wikification category are
not this bad and many of them are quite decent and should not at all be
deleted. Sorry if I sounded overzealous.
Regards,
Haukur
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
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