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t's an informative, and most of all, well-sourced list. The fact that an article is a key target for vandalism is not a good or even, valid criterion, for deletion in my opinion. If it were, we could never have anything informative on ethnic hatred, atheism, abortion, sexual reproduction,
344:. Deleting an article because it is frequently vandalised would be letting vandals dictate content on Knowledge (XXG) and I don't think that would be acceptable. I do still think teh article could be deleted as it just replicates the content of another better sourced article. ] 332:- whilst I think the article should be deleted I do not think that being a vandal target is any kind of reason to justify deletion. What would Knowledge (XXG) be like if Knowledge (XXG) just removed content that was frequently vandalised. There wouldn't be articles on 78: 310:. The material is redundant and having different ways of sorting isn't a sufficient reason to have two versions with slightly different content. These lists are vandal-magnets and the fewer of them we have the easier they are to maintain. 212:
I think the way this list is sorted is very reasonable, but I agree that there doesn't need to be two different lists for the same kind of information. But there are sortable wiki tables that could solve this problem. See for example
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But where does it end - do we really need multiple articles containing the same information listed in different ways? How many lists of Ethinc Slurs could be created - listed by prevalence, by country of origin, by first usage, etc.
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At no point in the nomination was it mention that the article was a target for vandalism - I agree that would be a bad reason to delete an article. It was the reason given in the
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which is a more complete and more importantly - better sourced - article. The whole concept of the page is badly described in the introduction and seems to be inherently
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Depending on the list, sometimes a sortable table is best, sometimes a separate article. At this point is not not seem obvious how to convert this to a sortable table.
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or has been the subject of much discussion, suggests to me the nominator hasn't done the right steps in deciding whether this should be at AFD or not.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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in the nomination were concerns over vandalism mentioned as a justification for deletion. Vandalism is
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Sorry, I must have mixed it up with another AFD I was previewing. But, I still standby my decision to
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homosexuality or other LGBT related facts: just because it is controversial doesn't mean delete. Also,
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engine in wikipedia boith lists play their navigational role, because the list is quite long. `'
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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This article is completely redundant - the material within it is covered in
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Again, vandalism concerns were not mentioned once in the nomination. ]
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the fact that the article hasn't been edited that much since the last
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Well sourced. Vandalism concerns are not a valid reason to delete.
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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a good reason to delete a page; however not meeting
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Knowledge (XXG):Articles for deletion
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Pascal.Tesson
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05:21, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
List of ethnic slurs by ethnicity
Articles for deletion/List of ethnic slurs by ethnicity
Articles for deletion/List of ethnic slurs by ethnicity (2nd Nomination)
List of ethnic slurs by ethnicity
edit
talk
history
protect
delete
links
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logs
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View log
List of ethnic slurs
POV
Knowledge (XXG) is not a dictionary
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Guest9999
17:48, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
List of ethnic slurs
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