Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eupen-Malmedy

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 Keep. Renaming or merging won't require AfD Eluchil404 13:53, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Eupen-Malmedy

Not sure what the point of this article is; there are already separate articles on Eupen and Malmedy. NawlinWiki 20:30, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

• • Withdrawing nomination thanks to excellent work by trialsanderrors. I have cleaned up the article a bit more and removed the "Rulers" subsection, which is pretty much POV. It is now useful and informative. NawlinWiki 17:00, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment - very poor article, of course, but Eupen and Malmedy together form the German section of Belgium, and were therefore a political issue during the 20th century. The article seems to want to trace the common political history of that border region. Just a thought: Maybe just redirect to German-speaking Community of Belgium? No vote at this moment. Fut.Perf. ☼ 20:52, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete the crap that's in there, redirect to German-speaking Community of Belgium. ~ trialsanderrors 21:37, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment. Such a redirect will be rather strange, as Malmedy is officially part of the French Community of Belgium. Annexionism per Wikipedia? There is a large difference between the areas called Eupen and Malmedy that were Prussian counties and annexed by Belgium (on which the English Wikipedia does not have separate articles; see the redlinks in the article German-speaking Community of Belgium) and the present Belgium municipalities of Eupen and Malmedy, on which we do have articles. This article is about the counties. It is not a very good article, but contains information that is not present elsewhere and that does not clearly belong in any existing article. --Lambiam^Talk 23:49, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
  • OK, after putting my foot in my mouth I found two entries in the German WP: de:Eupen-Malmedy-St.Vith and de:Ostkantone, which seem to exist independent of each other. S-M-St is short and easy to translate, Ost is far more elaborate. I could translate the S-M-St entry to replace the stuff that's there, and post the Ost article at articles for translation. ~ trialsanderrors 00:19, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
    • Done translating. I have no opinion on how to deal with this article from now on (Move? Translate Ostkantone?), but I guess the addition might keep it from deletion. Unless there is another article covering the same material. ~ trialsanderrors 04:43, 22 June 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.