The result was keep. Along with this closure, I highly encourage any editors to take this as an opportunity to fix the article up a bit. ( non-admin closure) Kharkiv07 ( T) 00:52, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
Contested PROD. While Wikipedia is a perpetually unfinished work in progress, sometimes it is better to have no article instead of a very bad article that nobody is interested in improving. This is such a case.
This would be a useful article if somebody who is knowledgeable about the topic had done some actual work. As it is, this article has remained in this fragmentary, broadly incorrect and generally useless state since 2013. While the few dates included are not always wrong per se, they are very poorly sourced, described and chosen. For example, there was definitely no declaration of Swiss independence in 1307 (perhaps the 1291 Bundesbrief is meant, but that was no such thing either). In 1877 "flooding" is mentioned, with no indication of where that happened or why it was important. Likewise, why a particular and inconsequential unsourced 1958 referendum "in favor of a nuclear bomb" is included puzzles me; the Swiss people vote multiple times each year on many issues.
This was clearly written by somebody who has little or no knowledge of Swiss history, taking dates at random from whichever half-understood source was at hand. In this state, it is a disservice to our readership, and would need to be totally rewritten. Until somebody comes along who has the skills and the time to competently recreate it from scratch, it should be deleted. In terms of alphabet soup: it fails WP:V and WP:SYNTH. Sandstein 10:03, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
The result was keep. Along with this closure, I highly encourage any editors to take this as an opportunity to fix the article up a bit. ( non-admin closure) Kharkiv07 ( T) 00:52, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
Contested PROD. While Wikipedia is a perpetually unfinished work in progress, sometimes it is better to have no article instead of a very bad article that nobody is interested in improving. This is such a case.
This would be a useful article if somebody who is knowledgeable about the topic had done some actual work. As it is, this article has remained in this fragmentary, broadly incorrect and generally useless state since 2013. While the few dates included are not always wrong per se, they are very poorly sourced, described and chosen. For example, there was definitely no declaration of Swiss independence in 1307 (perhaps the 1291 Bundesbrief is meant, but that was no such thing either). In 1877 "flooding" is mentioned, with no indication of where that happened or why it was important. Likewise, why a particular and inconsequential unsourced 1958 referendum "in favor of a nuclear bomb" is included puzzles me; the Swiss people vote multiple times each year on many issues.
This was clearly written by somebody who has little or no knowledge of Swiss history, taking dates at random from whichever half-understood source was at hand. In this state, it is a disservice to our readership, and would need to be totally rewritten. Until somebody comes along who has the skills and the time to competently recreate it from scratch, it should be deleted. In terms of alphabet soup: it fails WP:V and WP:SYNTH. Sandstein 10:03, 17 September 2015 (UTC)