Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Writing Forums

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 delete. --bainer (talk) 09:12, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Writing Forums

Fairly unremarkable article. Really, it's just throwing out words for the reader like 'aspiring writers' and it is like saying "Sports Forums" or "Dating Forums". There are not articles for these. This is an article basically saying that there are forums for people wishing to be writers. It is not worthy enough to be a freestanding article, and I have the feeling that the external links at the bottom are self-promotion. Now, i May be wrong, but that is my gut feeling. Paaerduag 13:44, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete. I don't really see any point for this. I think the concept of people who share an interest and band together on the net to discuss it is kinda notable in itself, but I really see no point in having an individual article for every interest group. The merge already being suggested in the article itself seems fine, I suppose, except I'm not at all sure that there's anything to merge. -- Captain Disdain 15:02, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep. You both make good points about the problems of having an unending series of articles on niche forums, but I still think this article did a good job (for a stub) of outlining a topic and suggesting lines of future development. I can see this easily growing into a full article with sections devoted to different aspects of writing, publishing, reviewing, etc. I think there is notable material out there and would like to give this article more time to bring it into Wikipedia. Interlingua ^talk 15:57, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Hmm. I'm not quite sure if I understand what you mean. We already have articles about various forms of writing, publishing and whatnot. Do you really think that having articles on talking about the the aforementioned topics would be worthwhile? I dunno, maybe you're right, but even so, wouldn't that be something to tackle under Internet forum rather than a separate article (or series of articles about, say, sports forums, science fiction forums, film forums, comic book forums, dating forums and so forth)? I write for a living myself, so I certainly agree that there's a lot of solid information about the topic out there... I'm just not sure that it's at all significant information. Actually, now that I think of it, perhaps the creation of a new article about writers' workshops or something along those lines would be helpful, because that's a very real (and, in my opinion, a far more notable) phenomenon. That could also very well encompass writing forums, which are, after all, a kind of a subset of writers' workshops... I'm mostly just thinking out loud here, because the subject matter is of interest to me, I just don't see this particular article making the grade. -- Captain Disdain 16:28, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as per nom Bwithh 18:11, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete I don't think we should have an article on every potential type of forum, as there are forums for just about anything imaginable. The important parts can be merged into a more general article. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 22:53, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• comment I like Captain Disdain's idea about finding a more general home for something like this, something about the intersection of the Internet and information on writing. On this more general page, there could be things like this article on writers' forums, but also on message boards, workshops, collaborative publishing, etc. Interlingua ^talk 23:05, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
• Transwiki to fWiki Matt 23:49, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

• What does 'transwiki' mean?--Paaerduag 08:21, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

• Delete It makes no sense to have a separate article for this. --Musicpvm 05:34, 20 June 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.