Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nurture Networks

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 delete has been transwikied. John Reaves (talk) 04:14, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nurture Networks

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Page is not being used for anything but project management. Wikipedia is not a forum, Wikipedia is not a webspace provider, and Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It appears that this article might potentially end up violating Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising as well. Slavlin 14:42, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

• Delete some kind of advertisement or white paper, with all the coherence and communication skills of Dilbert's pointy-haired boss, by the looks of things. Definitely not an encyclopedia article or anything that could be easily turned into one. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 16:49, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Comment Dear Slavlin, and Andrew: With "nurture networks" we (10 professionals in the field of development cooperation) intended to assemble our well based knowledge and experience on building, maintaining and e-facilitating online networks - with close connections to the fields of e-moderation (referring to leading international experts), to communties of practice, online communication tools (and to other already described key issues by wikipedia). It was definitely not our intention to maintain a workspace, to advertise something or to nurture group activities. Online collaboration has a powerful future - and it was our intention to assemble, to link and compile the already existing experiences and facts in a better way. Wikipedia - an encyclopedia - seemed us above all to be one of the best instruments to "construct new knowledge". But you are right, we do not have enough experience in "wikifying" - and all the requested procedures to pass your quality control system. I apologise too that one of us was removing your note about deletion. For us deleting everything would be the logical consequence, we've understood already. Is there any possibility to get guidance by one of you to make it - and to overcome the most important obstacles so that the content can remain here? Otherwise we would only like to ask you to give some days more that we can save all the linked content properly - before you delete it. Thanks a lot in advance and kind regards from the Alps, Julie nadja 18:44, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Comment - I would suggest that, from what I can tell about what you have now, that this could definately be a good item for Wikibooks or Wikiversity. These 2 sites are good resources for building guides or training programs which you intend to be freely avalible and retain no copyright over. Rather than delete this and start over, you could follow the process to have it Transwikied which would allow you to move the content over to the other spaces in full. There might even be a project going on in one of those which could use this. I would change my vote to Delete and Transwiki if that is what you would like to do.

As another note, when you are adding a comment, you can place : in front of the paragraph with an extra one for each indent. That will give you the indentions which let you see follow a good train of discussion. Also, it is a good idea on a voting page to put '''Comment''' at the front of your message, as I did for you above, if you aren't voting. Slavlin 21:05, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Comment - Thanks for the useful hints. We have shifted the content of "Nurture Networks" to Wikibooks http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Nurture_Networks, hoping that this is correct. Julie nadja 09:39, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

With all that said, the proper course seems to be Delete and transwiki. Realkyhick 02:06, 28 March 2007 (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.