Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saur Revolution

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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. Hut 8.5 17:30, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Saur Revolution

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I think this article should be deleted and the page name "Saur Revolution" become a redirect to this location People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan#The Saur Revolution. As you can see, currently this article has a 1 sentence summary and a weasel worded, non-neutral, unreferenced statement attempting to approximate why the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Obviously it would be better to improve this article, but I can't do it and if anyone else was gonna, they'd of done by now. Far better for anyone who types in "Saur Revolution" to be linked to informed, referenced account on the PDPA page, than this, plus if someone in the future comes along and decides they wanna make the Saur Revolution into a full article, they'll be well within their rights to do so :) Ryan4314 (talk) 17:32, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Comment Why not merge the PDPA section with this article and tag for better referencing? Seems the revolution was not a part of the history of the party but the history of the country, so shouldn't be buried. --Dhartung | Talk 17:53, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
I don't see the point, then it'll simply be a reworded version of the section in the PDPA with nothing extra. Don't worry it wouldn't be "buried", all of Saur Revolution's links will be redirected to the PDPA section, which will actually be an improvement to Wikipedia, coz at the moment people who search "Saur Revolution" only get to see the article with 1 sentence. Ryan4314 (talk) 18:52, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Comment: D'oh, silly me, I probably should've just replaced all the text on Saur Revolution with a redirect to People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan#The Saur Revolution, would been a lot simpler than starting an AFD. I am starting to feel tired lol...Ryan4314 (talk) 18:56, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Dude, I don't think you understand. Have you seen the Saur Revolution article in it's current state? It's 2 sentences! If we redirect it to it's subheader on PDPA it'd be much better for the community, they'll actually be able to learn about it for a start. Ryan4314 (talk) 09:45, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
Anybody can click a link from this article to that one; there's no meaningful benefit to redirecting it. We need a proper article on this subject, and by redirecting we substantially reduce our odds of getting one. Stubs need to grow, not to be eliminated. Everyking (talk) 00:44, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
Stub hasn't grown for a year now, are you gonna do it? Also I don't think anybody actually knows about the sizeable entry on the PDPA page, hence the problem; Anyone who types in "Saur Revolution" will just get linked to a 1 sentence article, and won't be able to find out anymore. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ryan4314 (talk • contribs) 10:21, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong keep: Valid, genuine and notable encyclopedic topic. Article nedds expansion.Otolemur crassicaudatus (talk) 08:55, 27 December 2007 (UTC)


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