Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Departments of Senegal

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Keep. Physchim62 14:31, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Departments of Senegal

Article is vague and has no context on the subject. Solarusdude 18:50, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

• Weak delete This might well be a proper article, or a proper section of Senegal. But the present sub-stub has no content at all. If significant verifiable content were added i would rethink my view. DES ^(talk) 19:23, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, like Counties of the United States. Kappa 19:59, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, the article is actually empty. The names of the departements (sic!) ought to go into Regions of Senegal. Pilatus 20:55, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
  • So no-one needs to know how many departments Senegal has? Kappa 20:58, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I added content from elsewhere in Wikipedia. It should, of course, be expanded. Punkmorten 21:06, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: Check out Geohive. Punkmorten 21:24, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
  • I've finished the expansion. All we need now is a prettier table. Punkmorten 21:36, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
• There is now some content, but not really enough for a good article, adn i don't see lots of prospect of further expansion. Merge into Regions of Senegal, or perhaps better merge this page and that one into Senegal. DES ^(talk) 21:39, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
  • In my eyes, a merge to Regions of Senegal would be misleading as the subjects in question are not regions, they are in fact departments and should be treated as such. The stated references supply material for further expansion. Punkmorten 21:45, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Regions is both a general adn a technical term -- it is certianly relevant to the list of regions (which is all that is in Regions of Senegal at present) what departmetns each region contains. But why not merge both Departments of Senegal and Regions of Senegal into Senegal? Do you realy expect so much additional content that separate pages are needed? Leave redirects in case people search on these terms. DES ^(talk) 21:52, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
      • We need to be able to link to departments of Senegal every time we say X is a department of Senegal. Kappa 22:13, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
        • Redirects are cheap. Now Regions of Senegal has the nicer map and Departments of Senegal the nicer table. One of them ought to be redirected to the other. There is no need to split the information atom. Pilatus 22:26, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep it'll take time but should grow. Dlyons493 Talk 21:59, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Regions of Senegal. Pilatus 22:26, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep as useful list. Regions are divided into departments and departments in turn are divided into arondissements see [1]. Furthermore, Matam formerly a department of the Saint-Louis became a region in its own right with departments of its own so Departments are notable in their own right and a separate list of them is worthwhile. These are similar to counties in the US or local government in Australia. Capitalistroadster 00:41, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Regions of Senegal. I was the one who AFD'ed the article, but now that there's a lot more information in there (and in tabular form too), I'm happy with either keeping it or merging it. Solarusdude 00:57, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep new updated useful list.--Kewp (t) 14:01, 13 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.