Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chaoyang

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The result of the debate was KEEP. Golbez 07:08, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Chaoyang

This text was created in order to push information about Laogai into the Wikipedia. However, it is a city article that should cover information about the city, this information is largely missing. The user who created this article (and many similar articles) is known for this practice in the German and French Wikipedias and has been blocked there for mainly this reason. Creating a lot of articles that contain only one detail about many cities is far away from POV. Sarcelles has been kindly asked to stop this activities (see here), and complete the articles already created with more necessary information. As he is not willing to do that, I propose one of his articles for deletion here in order to see what the opinion of the other contributors is. Herr Klugbeisser 10:58, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chinese cities#Laogai articles. Sarcelles has had a long history of starting long lists of city articles for the sole purpose of pushing information about Laogai. Much of the material that he includes is also of dubious credibility. -- ran (talk) 16:09, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
• keep, real place. Kappa 21:39, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Please don't VfD to deal with content problems. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 23:32, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. Real city with real community of interest. Capitalistroadster 03:13, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and rewrite. Btw isn't there a city (or a district?) in eastern Guangdong with the same name? — Instantnood 14:39, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
  • Yes, but it's written 潮阳. (Not that this would matter on the English encyclopedia) -- ran (talk) 19:27, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)

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