This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was - kept -
SimonP 22:12, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
This page is a list of genocides in history. The basic format is a wiki link to the existing wikipedia article (say, Boer Wars) followed by a text paragraph on this page explaining why it was genocide. Reasons why I think this page should be deleted: 1) Category:Genocides already exists. Per the ongoing lists vs. categories discussion, adding Category:Genocides to the Boer Wars article itself will attract the attention of the editors who follow that topic. In contrast, adding a link to Boer Wars on this page will not. In the first case, the peer review process is likely to be much more robust. 2) The text blurbs on this page detailing why an indicent was genocide will have no hard linkage with the underlying article's content. This weakens the peer review process. 3) In debates over specific events to include/exclude, the list format makes it much easier for editors to say "Well, if X is on the list, Y should be too. Conversely, if Y doesn't count, then I'm going to remove X from the list now." Using categories forces someone using that argument to separately convince all of the X editors and all of the Y editors. Again, a much more robust peer review process. Feco 12:46, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record.
The result of the debate was - kept -
SimonP 22:12, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
This page is a list of genocides in history. The basic format is a wiki link to the existing wikipedia article (say, Boer Wars) followed by a text paragraph on this page explaining why it was genocide. Reasons why I think this page should be deleted: 1) Category:Genocides already exists. Per the ongoing lists vs. categories discussion, adding Category:Genocides to the Boer Wars article itself will attract the attention of the editors who follow that topic. In contrast, adding a link to Boer Wars on this page will not. In the first case, the peer review process is likely to be much more robust. 2) The text blurbs on this page detailing why an indicent was genocide will have no hard linkage with the underlying article's content. This weakens the peer review process. 3) In debates over specific events to include/exclude, the list format makes it much easier for editors to say "Well, if X is on the list, Y should be too. Conversely, if Y doesn't count, then I'm going to remove X from the list now." Using categories forces someone using that argument to separately convince all of the X editors and all of the Y editors. Again, a much more robust peer review process. Feco 12:46, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)