Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Crime in South Africa

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 keep. — CharlotteWebb 23:32, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crime in South Africa

The "article" is not from a neutral point of view and only opinion (verging on a soaboax) on current affairs, violating guidelines (point 5. of Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought). Furthermore, large parts are not verifiable and factually incorrect. Deon Steyn 08:47, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep minus the inaccurate or subjective parts. Gazpacho 08:52, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Otherwise it jostles for space on the South Africa page. Wizzy…☎ 08:58, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - there are similar pages for other countries, but it needs a serious overhaul to make it a decent article. Cordless Larry 10:09, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep The crime in a country like South Africa is verifiable, there are numerous news reports, see also [1]. If that's not enough, what is? FrozenPurpleCube 14:51, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Just because the US government has something about crime on their consular info sheet doesn't make something a real issue. The issue is real, but not for that reason. Lionchow 20:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. That there is crime in South Africa is quite verifiable. If there is a problem with the article, it should be edited, not deleted. --Ezeu 16:07, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Sourced, encyclopaedic. Anything that fails WP:NPOV requires editing, not deleting. WilyD 16:33, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, just edit the article to fix the problems. Ramsquire 19:41, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - it could be a good article if we take some time to present the issue accurately, and don't let extremists take it over. And please don't merge the farm murders page with the crime page. The farm murders page is such a joke it should be as ghetto-ized as possible. Lionchow 20:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - removing POV parts. --Richard 08:23, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as stated above. Yamaguchi先生 23:09, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - NPOV should be sorted out on the article, not through AfDs. JASpencer 08:52, 23 September 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.