Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scouting around the world

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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 of the debate was speedy redirect, methinks. Johnleemk | Talk 16:09, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scouting around the world

  • Delete, this was merged into other articles by the ScoutingWikiProject after consensus. Rlevse 23:34, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
  • keep no it hasn't. large chunks of text in this article does not exist at List of World Organization of the Scout Movement members, which mainly consists of a table. even if it were merged, it should be redirected pursuant to the deletion guidelines rather than deleted--Jiang 23:44, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
    • It was not all moved to List of World Organization of the Scout Movement members; if you bother to read the merge talk, the consensus was to move the national topics to national Scouting articles. You cannot arbitrarily removed the afd tag and then claim the article wasn't listed on afd when you yourself made a comment on it. Rlevse 12:52, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
      • this afd subpage exists, but it is not listed at wikipedia:articles for deletion. Special:Whatlinkshere/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Scouting_around_the_world does not show a link to afd, and hence a lack of responses here. in any event, a redirect and not a delete would be needed after a merge because others may have indexed or bookmarked the page and "Scouting around the world" is a reasonable search term. --Jiang 13:05, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
      • okay i'm convinced on the merge; now redirect--Jiang 13:59, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
        • OK, why didn't you make the missing link yourself? Just curious.Rlevse 14:45, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. Information is included in the respective association's articles. - In extensive overview over all Scouting association doesn't fit in one article, there are (only in WOSM) 153 and twice more in WAGGGS or independent. --jergen 13:08, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
    • was merged into other articles by the ScoutingWikiProject after consensus. jergen 13:12, 28 January 2006 (UTC) (comment moved here by Jiang from beginning of page)
  • Redirect to the article it was merged to... WP:Be Bold, do it yourself and retire this afd. —This user has left wikipedia 13:28 2006-01-28
    • This is impossible, article was merged into different articles. --jergen 13:29, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
      • as neither is the content at this article unencyclopedic nor is the title "Scouting around the world" inappropriate, deleting is not an option. just choose the article that best represents the title to redirect it to. I suggest List of World Organization of the Scout Movement members. We need to preserve the page history to be GFDL compliant. --Jiang 13:59, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  • KEEP I find this oversight valueable and don't see clicking through so many individal country articles as a sensible alternative. LARS 14:24, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete The the info is duped on Wiki, which is generally not a good idea. You could go to the main list and click on whatever country you're interested in. Keeping this article as is would eventually generate an article of tremendous size'--well over 130 countries have Scouting. Rlevse 21:35, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
    • struck out as duplicate vote. --Jiang 08:32, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete - the only reason someone would look for this page would be if they were looking for the WOSM publication of similar name. Most anyone would type "Scouting" or possibly "World Scouting," so there's no need to leave a redirect -- Thesquire (talk - contribs) 16:34, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
    • deleting the redirect is against Wikipedia policy: Wikipedia:Redirect#When_should_we_delete_a_redirect.3F. There is nontrivial page history here. --Jiang 08:32, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
      • I'm not saying I want to delete a redirect, I'm saying that I don't want to create a redirect in the first place -- Thesquire (talk - contribs) 05:47, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
        • I created the redirect. Issue settled... --Jiang 11:16, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete, the information exists at national Scouting pages, which are well linked to, elsewise it would have to be comprehensive and we're then talking about 220+ countries and subnational entities that have Scouting; in addition, it has been discussed and agreed upon for weeks as per the Scouting WikiProject. Chris 18:41, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
    • standard WP practice is to redirect after a merge or discovery of duplicate/redundant article--Jiang 08:32, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete as merged content. Just zis  Guy, you know? [T]/[C] AfD? 22:10, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Deletion is not the last step of an article merger. Either redirect somewhere appropriate or archive in the talk namespace; since this was merged into multiple articles, each of those should get a {{merged}} stuck to their talk pages pointint at wherever this ends up. —Cryptic (talk) 15:59, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
  • I went ahead and redirected the article after adding the necessary templates, per Cryptic's suggestion--Jiang 11:16, 30 January 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.