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. — Aitias // discussion 02:51, 31 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Non-notable encyclopedia with only less than 1,000 articles. ApprenticeFan (talk) 12:23, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep to maintain consistency. Currently, all foreign language Wikipedia sites have one page each. Whilst there may be a case for merging all small wikis into one page, this really needs to be done on an all-or-nothing basis, otherwise it's going to be a mess. This !vote is without prejudice to a deletion/merge discussion on all small wikis. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 12:29, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This isn't the place for that kind of thing. See WP:ALLORNOTHING, WP:WAX, and WP:ITSA. flaminglawyer^c 16:40, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, this is a case where I am invoking WP:IGNOREALLRULES. I appreciate (and frequently oppose) the argument of "We've got an article on Y therefore we should keep my article X," because it's a short step from that to accepting ever-increasingly insignificant articles. However, when you are dealing with several articles that have identical claims to notability, and all the articles are linked from dozens of other pages by the same template, it's illogical to randomly keep or delete pages depending on what the participants of the deletion discussion at the time happened to decide. I'd much rather we had a single decision for all the small wikis.

Anyway, since the split in this discussion is split between keeping and merging, can I suggest we close this discussion and re-open it as a proposed merger? Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 10:21, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge all the little ones together. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wronglostboy (talk • contribs) 17:58, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. All other non-English Wikipedia sites are listed, there seems no justification for excluding this one. NoVomit (talk) 23:25, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge/redirect to List of Wikipedias. A bunch of the smaller wiki articles are already redirected there, and a number of the others should probably get the same treatment whenever there's nothing to say beyond a few basic statistics (article count, article count milestones, rank in size, editor count, etc). Zetawoof_(ζ) 23:47, 27 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep we made an error in deciding that not all the different language wp versions should have articles here. The information is appropriate for our encyclopedia. DGG (talk) 04:36, 28 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. I agree with DGG. Having articles on our sister language wikipedias is one of the things we should do. This is where readers will look. If it is against the policies and guidelines, this is a good case for WP:IAR. --Bduke (Discussion) 00:11, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per WP:IAR and WP:OUTCOMES. Bearian'sBooties (talk) 21:25, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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.