Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ivoirity

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. Johnleemk | Talk 10:53, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ivoirity

Nonsence article about a obscure term which fails the google test. Article is orphan, badly written and lacking content. --Mecanismo 21:50, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, events in Côte d'Ivoire don't show up that often in the news, but this term's been used by U.S. Department of State, which sounds like a reputable enough source for me. If anyone knows a French translation of the term, it could help in showing how far it has spread. And I don't get where the claim that it was poorly written came from, I wikified it now, and didn't have much to fix. And remember that systemic bias is bad. - Bobet 23:26, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment, the same article exists on the French wikipedia (Ivoirité, i interwikied it). Googling that gives over 40,000 results. Something leading in part to a civil war is pretty notable. - Bobet 03:29, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - The French article on the Côte d'Ivoire civil war discusses the topic in depth. Smmurphy^(Talk) 05:52, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
• Weak delete, I don't think it is salvageable. Stifle 21:03, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment, it was also mentioned in the Ivorian Civil War article here. I added a wikilink so it's not even an orphan anymore. - Bobet 23:59, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep- important article that should be expanded. -- JJay 01:27, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and expand. This (or its French version Ivoirité) is the term that is being thrown around in the immigration debate in the Ivory Coast. Pilatus 02:50, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Ivoirité (Ivoirity) is related to the precursors to apartheid in South Africa, as such it is an important element in the history of the Civil War in Cote d'Ivoire. I hope and pray that peace and harmony soon make Ivoirité less of a current issue and more of an historical one, in which case I might support it being merged into the Civil War in Cote d'Ivoire article. Alan J Shea 21:35, 12 December 2005 (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.