Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Republic of Nagorno-Karabahk

This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was delete as an inappropriate fork. However, having deleted the history, I am recreating the article as a redirect. While we do not need redirects for every possible misspelling, this is a reasonably probable mistake for english-speakers to make. Rossami (talk) 06:32, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Republic of Nagorno-Karabahk

Republic of Nagorno-Karabahk, is a misspelling; 'Karabahk' not 'Karabakh'.
Per Dante Alighieri's "not a speedy candidate..." I'm bringing this here. The main article is at Nagorno-Karabakh already and is hotly fought over (not by me); please see Talk:Nagorno-Karabakh. — Davenbelle 12:27, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

• No need to bring it here, just make it a redirect to the correct spelling. --Zero 13:00, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Easy spelling mistake to make, so redirect. Average Earthman 13:22, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• Nagorno-Karabakh is a region that is the object of a disputed between Azerbaijan and Armenia. They had a real war, not just an edit war. For a taste of just how hot people get over this issue, read about Ramil Safarov. The copy of the page at Republic of Nagorno-Karabahk is one of many created the other day by an anon, User:64.136.2.254, who also messed with a lot of redirects and every link to the Nagorno-Karabakh page. Theresa knott cleaned up a lot of the mess. This page is still around because a likely sockpuppet, User:Clarkefreak, reverted out the {{del}} tag and made this page ineligible for speedying. I'm working with the parties to end the dispute. If I thought that a redirect was appropriate, I could have saved myself a lot of typing. — Davenbelle 13:36, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

• I haven't been following the dispute on the page (and the British media appear to have largely got bored with the area several years ago and moved on to newer conflicts) so I fail to see why, exactly, a redirect is inappropriate. The article contains a misspelling, and the unrecognised self-styled Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh is, I believe, within the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Since we aim for NPOV, a Stalinist refusal to mention what is going on in the area is not an option, so the self-styled republic must be mentioned at some point in the Nagorno-Karabakh article. Unless someone can demonstrate that this spelling is widely used except as a spelling mistake, this article can only exist as a redirect. Average Earthman 16:12, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

• This particular page, Republic of Nagorno-Karabahk, was created, just the other day, to express the POV that the region is no longer a part of Azerbaijan. The specific contents of this page was one side of an edit war and was being regularly reverted. Other pages such as Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, Rebublic of Nagorno-Karabahk, Rebublic of Nagorno-Karabakh, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Nagorno-Karabahk Republic, and Nagorno Karabakh Republic were also created or had an existing redirect replaced with the disputed content; note the various spellings. Many pages were edited to point to the disputed content instead of the Nagorno-Karabakh page. The misspelled ones are gone, excepting this one which doesn't qualify for speedy. It is a piece of snot that needs to go away (the spelling, not the POV). I have no doubt that it will if I write several more pages about it! This is all being worked on at Talk:Nagorno-Karabakh and Nagorno-Karabakh. These are the real pages; if the discussion there concludes that there should be an article with the word "Republic" in it, we would use one of the correctly spelled pages, not one that has a typo in its name. I, of course, agree that the NKR must be covered in the ariticle; I'm not one of the POV-pushers, I'm the mediator (unlicensed). I ask you to vote delete, please. —&nbspDavenbelle 23:28, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. — Davenbelle 06:14, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC) — No need to support a redirect for every typo under the sun. If you disagree, here are some other candidates: Republic of Nagorno-Karabake, Repuplic of Nagorno-Karabakh, Republic of Nogorno-Karabakh, Nagorno-Karabath Republic, Nagordo-Karabakh Republic, and the Untied States of Amerika.
• Delete. Grue 12:29, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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