Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jumeirah Islands

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. No consensus to merge based on this afd but it's still an editorial decision that anyone can do if they want. - Bobet 10:25, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jumeirah Islands

A nn housing estate. Reads like an ad, and its location is unspecified, so it's almost within range of speediable for lack of context. Grutness...wha? 23:43, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete This is much more like an ad than an article. -- TheGreatLlama ^{(speak to the Llama!)} 00:16, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. I've had a go at it; in my opinion, the location is now clear, it has been cleaned up, is less advert-ish, and the notability is somewhat established. (An Emirati could probably do a better job, but I tried.) After all, three quarters of a million google hits for something outside the English speaking world? Sounds notable enough for this deletionist. (And on another note, why didn't you try a prod, Grutness?) Picaroon9288 01:16, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
  • • I didn't prod because - unless it's clearly never going to get beyond a deletable stub - it may have been saveable. I didn't know where this was, so there was no way of me checking whether it was any more notable than had been written. It was quite possible that someone who knew more about the subject could have rescued it - and I'm far happier to see an article rescued and made encyclopedic than deleted out of hand. Grutness...wha? 04:06, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Well, actually, more like 76,000[1], not 3/4 of a million ghits - and they're mostly real estate advert sites. Bwithh 17:04, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
    • Okay, this is what we call a foot-in-mouth situation. But seriously, I need to learn to count better. Thanks for pointing that out. Picaroon9288 17:11, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep based on the revisions. Dekimasu 09:16, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge I think that Jumeirah Islands, Jumeirah Lake, Palm Jumeirah, Jumeirah Lake Towers and Jumeirah Bay should be all merged into one article, as they're basically part of the same development, and by the same developers. The development as a whole may be encyclopedically notable, but we don't need articles for each individual subproject of the same development (realestatecruft). Btw, the Islands article was created with a single purpose account by the way and all these articles verge on corporate spam abuse of Wikipedia. Bwithh 17:01, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect to Jumeirah Estates, as none of these articles will likely be further developped. Themindset 21:45, 12 October 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.