Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Kurdistan

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellany page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Speedy close—not a deletion discussion. —Doug Bell 19:17, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Kurdistan

I strongly believe "Wikipedia:WikiProject Kurdistan" is an unnecessarily controversial title for this wikiproject. I hence propose a rename to Wikipedia:WikiProject Kurdish people which would be a completely neutral title and would determine the cope of the project with greater clarity.

Kurdistan is a wanabe country (meaning some people seek it to be an independent country). Kurdistan is currently neither a dejure (no one recognizes Kurdistan to be a country) nor a defacto (no entity claims to own a Kurdistan) country.

Even though it supposed to be a geographic wikiproject (if so it is among the smallest), currently the wikiproject focuses on Kurdish people unlike other geography wikiprojects such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Central Asia .

-- Cat chi? 18:22, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

  • Strongly Keep — This isn't the first time anti-Kurdi users trying to eliminate the Kurdish community in Wikipedia. Kurdistan is a region and has distinct language, culture and politics — current political events in the region which could change its status. It even has a notable article and many subarticles that are developed around it. I cannot think of anything more natural to have a WikiProject; there are a thousand of articles related to the region Kurdistan and we are here to organise those created and create more articles to better the information on Kurds in Wikipedia. The name is projects' memeber's preference and we want it to stay like this, the project has no political message nor an aim but it is one user (User:Cool cat) from outside the project who is trying its very hard to stop positive things happening for this project. The project aims to cover the history of the land thus it is necessary to name it Kurdistan (a geographical region known to all) to halt confusions. Ozgur Gerilla 18:56, 3 April 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 page's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.