Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tourism in Dubai

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 TO DELETE, but severely prune back the article and remove cruft, which I will now do. Herostratus 14:57, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tourism in Dubai

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This is definitely not the worst article in Wikipedia, and it contains some useful information. However, it is written in the style of a travel guide, and would thus be more appropriated for Wikitravel. I don't know the exact criteria, but the general idea is that Wikipedia collects objective information without providing how-to guides for travelers. YechielMan 15:55, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. Wikipedia is not a travel guide. We can't transwiki this content because Wikitravel content is subject to a different license than Wikipedia content. I agree that the article as it stands does contain useful information even if it isn't suitable for this encyclopedia. --Metropolitan90 20:57, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, and slash and burn non-encyclopedic content (which will leave us with only a stub, but that's OK). I'm going to do a little slashing-and-burning right now, in fact. "Tourism in X" is an important and encyclopedic component of our coverage of any geographic area X; see for example Category:Tourism by country. There should be an article at this location, and therefore deleting the current version serves no particular purpose; far better that we keep it in the revision history to show what does and doesn't belong in such an article. -- Visviva 00:56, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and burninate inappropriate content per Visviva (although AfD is not cleanup). Sandstein 21:19, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: one would expect some statistics or trends rather than info where to buy "original" jewelry. Pavel Vozenilek 02:26, 19 November 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.