Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2004 Summer Olympics medal count for countries ending in -stan

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As I said when adding the vfd notice, one may disagree about the existence of *other* pages, but to create a page just to make some injokey point is an obnoxious abuse of Wikipedia IMAO. Aris Katsaris 18:28, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * Delete, I cannot verify if Aris' mentioned the reason but I agree that this article should be deleted. Andries 18:30, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is silly. What next - Summer Olympics medal count for countries with an odd number of letters in their name who declared independence on a Tuesday? &mdash; Ianb 18:45, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)

that "keep"], by an editor with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&hideminor=0&target=33451&limit=100&offset=0 recent history] of over 90% non-article edits, may reflect awell-founded sense of not being trusted here under their user-ID. --Jerzy(t) 21:30, 2004 Sep 2 (UTC)
 * A bit puzzled, never heard of a Stan Union or Organization in the making, but well, unless this organization gives some evidence of the contrary, delete ;-) &mdash; Pgreenfinch 18:47, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * But Pgreenfinch, you don't think it's important that this union of -stans is almost national and therefore should be compared to the nations?
 * Of course, except that I didn't find the main article describing this Stan Union, and that there is already a Stan Laurels article &mdash; User:Pgreenfinch|Pgreenfinch]] 07:59, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * You know, all the -stans were part of the Ottoman Empire, so they have political and cultural union.
 * Nonsense. None are in the area shown as "The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power" in Ottoman Empire. 5 of the 7 were in USSR, which could have united them with a single nod from Stalin if any of them were seen as having more in common than Islam, aridity, and some linguistic links; my impression is that at least some of them oppress their minorities who match their neighboring -stans' ethnic identity, and that some of those ethnic groups are killing each other, at least inside Afghanistan. Is this edit by User:Geogre a wink-free attempt at satire? --Jerzy(t) 21:30, 2004 Sep 2 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is absurd. Maybe a medal count by continent or something like that would be interesting, but to count the medals of several coutries just because their names are somewhat similar is pointless. &mdash; Kevloral 19:56, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, completely nonsensical, although that is usually a redeeming feature in my opinion. But in this case, no-one will ever bother to find out how many medals were won by -Stan countries. Therefore it has no place in an encyclopedia. Saint will 20:52, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * I for one would like to know. Care to try a different argument? Wile E. Heresiarch 15:16, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * I so appreciate the bitterness and sarcasm of the joke. However, as someone probably on the same side as its author on this issue I vote here, as I did on the articles that occasioned it, delete. Geogre 23:07, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * I appreciated also, only good things get imitated, happens to every serious brand. And obviously the attempts at debasing and suppressing the now imitated articles opened a pandora box for trollers. ;-)) &mdash; Pgreenfinch 07:59, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. The "stan" countries are an identifiable geographical grouping. Expand the article to name the events and medalists involved (there aren't very many). Wile E. Heresiarch 15:14, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * You might have a point here, maybe it is a "macro region", if we refer to the United Nations statistical definitions, but I don't see at the moment any article describing that grouping and/or its organization. Any evidence would help. &mdash; Pgreenfinch 15:36, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * "Stan countries" has some currency as an informal term -- Googling for stan "central asia" returns many hits. This loose usage has been adopted by National Geographic -- their Feb 2002 story on Central Asia  opens They are a diverse lot, these seven Stans. That NG refers to Central Asian countries generically as "Stans" shows the term has made it into the mainstream. Fwiw, Wile E. Heresiarch 16:03, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * That is not "adoption", it is a cute touch livening the lead of one article. --Jerzy(t) 21:30, 2004 Sep 2 (UTC)
 * Why not an article about it? I switch to neutral during the wait. &mdash; Pgreenfinch 17:31, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Oh, there is an article about it. It's called -stan, just moved to this spelling by me. I also attempted to clean the ethnocentric POV (see Talk page) about the suffix -stan being comically "over-used" (!), though I feel that was a bit of a waste of time, as the article is still pretty weird. I vote delete on the present listing. Bishonen 22:35, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. There is no reason why this page should be deleted. &mdash; 18:40, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * You'll have to sign your vote if you want it to be counted. Fwiw, Wile E. Heresiarch 19:25, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Going out of their way to time-stamp but not sign [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/2004_Summer_Olympics_medal_count_for_countries_ending_in_-stan&diff=5547325&oldid=5546369
 * Delete - fails to include Soviet Canuckistan. -- Cyrius|&#9998; 04:08, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unless there are also articles titled 2004 Summer Olympics medal count for countries ending in -ia and 2004 Summer Olympics medal count for countries ending in -land --Gene_poole 06:03, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * I see what you mean, it makes me shift my vote to keep, as a template for a general article of medal statistics by macro-region, by continent and also, for exhaustivity, by suffix, prefix and other similarity. --Pgreenfinch 06:37, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * That was a mislabelled vote: Keep is about the title. That was a proposal to put part of the content to other use before deleting. --Jerzy(t) 21:30, 2004 Sep 2 (UTC)
 * Keep. Rename - better grammar. -stan is an acceptable classification. [[User:OldakQuill|Oldak Quill]] 22:57, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. If we can have a List of countries receiving snowfall and a List of self-referential songs we can certainly suffer to include this one.  Fishal 23:00, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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