Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Telecom Development Company Afghanistan

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 no consensus. Mailer Diablo 15:49, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Telecom Development Company Afghanistan

Fails WP:CORP. SynergeticMaggot 03:45, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

• Merge to communications in Afghanistan. Phr (talk) 03:57, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
• delete Faaaa 21:23, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

 AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
 Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Mailer Diablo 20:28, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

• Merge and redirect, per Phr, I suppose, but it's not much to merge. Until the article on communications in Afghanistan has a great deal of bulk, it doesn't have that many viewers/users, and until then few people will be searching for a single consortium there. Therefore, there is little utility for a stand-alone article, and the information will be less available in isolation. Geogre 02:25, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete fails WP:CORP, nothing to merge. JChap (talk • contribs) 04:32, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Roshan (Telecom) should be added to this afd. I think the merge should consist basically of adding an external link, maybe pointing at http://www.roshan.af if there's no TDCA site. I'm indifferent to whether there's also a redirect made. Normally such a link would be spam, but this subject is so sparse that readers probably want all the info they can get. Phr (talk) 05:39, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep The list of criteria for companies warranting articles is biased towards the more-developed countries. A large, private company that garners little press in a country with a different model for corporations or without a significant stock exchange is still encyclopedic. Our criteria are extremely First World centric and should be changed. Williamborg 01:38, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
• Comment I don't think there's anything wrong with our criteria; or if anything, they're too lax. But we're allowed to make exceptions when there's a reason to do so. If there were more info in the article I could entertain the idea that this is such a case. Right now I think the main use for retaining the info is we might have some readers (e.g. US armed forces) who are going to Afghanistan for some reason and want to know what the phone situation is there. The first article they'd look at is Afghanistan, which has a subsection with a link to Communications in Afghanistan, so that's the logical place to put the info. Phr (talk) 03:04, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep: per williamborg, I see no harm in this article and developing countries definately have alot of what we do, it simply isn't reported.--Musaabdulrashid 03:29, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

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.