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The result was Move. Well hybrid of move and delete. It does not belong in mainspace and consensus reflects that, but there is viability and usefullness of this for the project. Content will be at Wikipedia:WikiProject Malawi/Malawi Index Star Mississippi 02:33, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
AfDs for this article:
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- Index of Malawi-related articles ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – ( View log | edits since nomination)
- (Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)
The previous AfD agreed to move this index to WikiProject space at Wikipedia:WikiProject Malawi/Index of Malawi-related articles, but it was moved back in December 2013, in ignorance of consensus, by a request at WP:RMTR. With a large number of redlinks and over 13000 pages in the Category:Malawi tree, this is useless for navigation. – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 22:20, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 22:20, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
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- Delete per nomination. Our tree of categories/subcategories is far superior for topics this broad. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 22:23, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- Move to a subpage of Wikipedia:WikiProject Malawi (without leaving behind a redirect). The large number of redlinks are a signal that this isn't one of your usual country indexes. As pointed out on the talk page and in the previous AfD, the bulk of the list has been generated from the entries in the Historical Dictionary of Malawi, and its main point is to serve as a guide to which articles are yet to be created (this is a valid list to have in projectspace). It's not helpful for readers as it contains less than half, possibly even less than a quarter, of all currently existing Malawi-related articles (hence the need to keep it out of mainspace). – Uanfala (talk) 23:20, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- Delete. I don't understand what benefit Wikipedia users get out of this list. We already have a much better organizational system consisting of the categories and subcategories within Category:Malawi. As a second choice, move per Uanfala. -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:59, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
- Delete. Precedent is now set to remove all these Index lists. Ajf773 ( talk) 10:08, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
- Move as per Uanfala. This kind of list is kept by all kinds of wikiprojects and looks like it would actually be helpful even for editors who aren't hugely familiar with Malawi if the entries are from the Historical Dictionary - a good hint about what topics are probably notable. Certainly not articlespace-useful though. -- asilvering ( talk) 19:26, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
- Delete. Precedent is now set to remove all these Index lists as is being currently done with the others. - Imcdc ( talk) 02:52, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
- Delete The page should be deleted. The page might be a useful tool for someone with the mass category edit tool to add Category:Malawi to appropriate pages. Gusfriend ( talk) 07:41, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
- Move per Uanfala. My intent in creating this was simply to track Wikipedia coverage vs a published index, essentially wikiproject material, but years before the project existed. How do we keep people from moving it out of project space? Do the page top notices need to be larger and redder or something?
Stan (
talk) 18:02, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
- Stick a wikiproject banner on top of it and a big line saying "This is a list of potential article titles maintained by WP Malawi based on the Historical Dictionary of Malawi" or something on it? -- asilvering ( talk) 20:40, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
- Delete Unnecessary per nom. desmay ( talk) 13:45, 14 February 2022 (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.
- 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 Move. Well hybrid of move and delete. It does not belong in mainspace and consensus reflects that, but there is viability and usefullness of this for the project. Content will be at Wikipedia:WikiProject Malawi/Malawi Index Star Mississippi 02:33, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
AfDs for this article:
[Hide this box] New to Articles for deletion (AfD)? Read these primers!
- Index of Malawi-related articles ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – ( View log | edits since nomination)
- (Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL)
The previous AfD agreed to move this index to WikiProject space at Wikipedia:WikiProject Malawi/Index of Malawi-related articles, but it was moved back in December 2013, in ignorance of consensus, by a request at WP:RMTR. With a large number of redlinks and over 13000 pages in the Category:Malawi tree, this is useless for navigation. – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 22:20, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 22:20, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Africa-related deletion discussions. – LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄) 22:20, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- Delete per nomination. Our tree of categories/subcategories is far superior for topics this broad. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 22:23, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- Move to a subpage of Wikipedia:WikiProject Malawi (without leaving behind a redirect). The large number of redlinks are a signal that this isn't one of your usual country indexes. As pointed out on the talk page and in the previous AfD, the bulk of the list has been generated from the entries in the Historical Dictionary of Malawi, and its main point is to serve as a guide to which articles are yet to be created (this is a valid list to have in projectspace). It's not helpful for readers as it contains less than half, possibly even less than a quarter, of all currently existing Malawi-related articles (hence the need to keep it out of mainspace). – Uanfala (talk) 23:20, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
- Delete. I don't understand what benefit Wikipedia users get out of this list. We already have a much better organizational system consisting of the categories and subcategories within Category:Malawi. As a second choice, move per Uanfala. -- Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:59, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
- Delete. Precedent is now set to remove all these Index lists. Ajf773 ( talk) 10:08, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
- Move as per Uanfala. This kind of list is kept by all kinds of wikiprojects and looks like it would actually be helpful even for editors who aren't hugely familiar with Malawi if the entries are from the Historical Dictionary - a good hint about what topics are probably notable. Certainly not articlespace-useful though. -- asilvering ( talk) 19:26, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
- Delete. Precedent is now set to remove all these Index lists as is being currently done with the others. - Imcdc ( talk) 02:52, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
- Delete The page should be deleted. The page might be a useful tool for someone with the mass category edit tool to add Category:Malawi to appropriate pages. Gusfriend ( talk) 07:41, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
- Move per Uanfala. My intent in creating this was simply to track Wikipedia coverage vs a published index, essentially wikiproject material, but years before the project existed. How do we keep people from moving it out of project space? Do the page top notices need to be larger and redder or something?
Stan (
talk) 18:02, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
- Stick a wikiproject banner on top of it and a big line saying "This is a list of potential article titles maintained by WP Malawi based on the Historical Dictionary of Malawi" or something on it? -- asilvering ( talk) 20:40, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
- Delete Unnecessary per nom. desmay ( talk) 13:45, 14 February 2022 (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.