Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Department of Science and Technology

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 of the debate was Merge and Redirect to Department of Science and Technology (Philippines). (Already done.) --Fang Aili ^說嗎? 00:29, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Department of Science and Technology

There is absolutely no information on this page at all. -Bottesini 17:11, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

• At the very least it should be Moved to Philippines Department of Science and Technology and a stub tag added, if the creation author wants to add more then fair enough, but its article name is definitely not correct. SFC9394 17:25, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
  • you're right that it should be moved there (if it were to be kept), but there is practically nothing on the page but a title. It literally says nothing about whatever it's supposed to be. -Bottesini 17:56, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

There is a seed, and I don't know if the creation author intends to add more content or not - his edit summary says "created preliminary article", which may indicate that things are not finished yet. The subject is legitimate, and there are plenty of articles that are literally one line stubs. As long as the article subject is legitimate and within WP's guidelines then I am always happy for a stub to be there, as it encourages others to expand it (whereas if the article didn't exist then there would be no chance of expansion unless someone went to the trouble of creating it). SFC9394 19:07, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

• Move per SFC9394. Andy Saunders 20:24, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
• move as per above Roodog2k 21:33, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
• move for previously mentioned reasons Nortelrye 23:17, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, barely more than a rewording of the title. If it's expanded, move. Stifle (talk) 23:53, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
• Move as per above, but preferably to Department of Science and Technology (Philippines), which is used in other countries' cabinet-level ministry/department naming formats (Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan) is an example). I can also work on information about the DOST. --Akira123323 14:46, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Okay, I added enough information to make it into a probably decent stub. --Akira123323 14:59, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

• Akira123323's comments bumped this back to the top of my watchlist and I had another look at the situation - it turns out there are a few of these. I have posted on the article creators talk page about preferable naming conventions. For the closing admin: moves (of the naming form above that Akira123323 suggests) in addition to this AfD article are also required for:

• Department of Budget and Management
• Department of Social Welfare and Development
• Department of Interior and Local Government
• Department of Environment and Natural Resources
• Department of Public Works and Highways

A couple of them were created by other users, and it seems that that precedence has lead to others being created with the same form - if these could all be moved then it would save any further confusion (or Afd's). SFC9394 15:11, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Actually, I took the time to check the articles, and all articles except the one on the DSWD redirect to their respective articles with the disambiguation. --Akira123323 03:08, 24 April 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.