Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/8888

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The result of the debate was COPYVIO, without offer of a rewrite. -Splash 22:48, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

8888
Unencyclopedic list of people, name whose title is not intuitively obvious (and could be confused with a year, considering Wikipedia's policy on number naming). Zoe 05:14, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to Wikisource, perhaps? (Would still need to be renamed per nom.)  --Alan Au 05:17, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki and rename as per the above. - ulayiti (talk)   (my RfA)  08:26, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as copyvio. - ulayiti (talk)   (my RfA)  18:34, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. This page struck me as strange, so I decided to look into it in detail. It was created 2005-08-09 by 219.122.37.209. On the day it was created, Jtkiefer SD-tagged it as nonsense, probably while on NP patrol. However, 219.122.37.209 removed the tag, and it apparently went unnoticed. The only article that was linked to the page was the Myanmar article, in reference to a violent repression of Burmese citizens that took place 17 years ago. It turns out that the title, 8888, is the way that date is remembered by those in the region (it happened on 8.8.1988). It was a pivotal event in the bloody tragedy that has marked that country all these years. The entire content of the article space was taken from a website , which appears to be that of an organization devoted to Myanmar's troubled history. It is copyrighted material. I have done the following: Edited the Myanmar article to delink it from 8888, and placed an in text external link to the original website. Placed a copyvio tag on 8888, and blanked the page. With the technical conflict of AfD and CVio rules I wondered whether to leave it, but I'd say the copyvio takes precedence, and the history is available in any case. I listed it on the eternally slow copyvio, but if Zoe or another closing sysop decide to go ahead and delete the page, this can be delisted. I don't think I've ever felt this sad in blanking & copyvio tagging a page.— Encephalon |  &zeta;   09:21:33, 2005-09-02 (UTC)
 * Now tagged as copyvio. But anyway it's a list of people killed in a Burman uprising - WP:NOT a memorial, and neither in fact is Wikisource. Delete. Oh, and to answer the above - CP usually takes precedence, but given its slowness, if it happens to have consensus to delete here it can be removed nonetheless. Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 09:24, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes Radiant. That's what I thought, and that's why I did it. Thanks— Encephalon |  &zeta;   09:27:48, 2005-09-02 (UTC)


 * copyvio else very weak transwikisource only because we do not know the privacy concerns of this list, we do not know if we can USE this list. If we can use the list, I would argue that it is NOT a memorial if we removed the names replicating the data and created metrics from the data. Roodog2k (talk) 11:42, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * comment Ummm... just thought of this... Is this list verifiable? That is the paramount question, I think.  Wiokipedia is not a propoganda machine. Roodog2k (talk) 11:44, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per copyvio. UniReb 12:18, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete even if it wasn't a copyvio. The event, if verified/verifiable, is certainly notable.  A big list o' names isn't. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  14:09, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Copyvio. Amren (talk) 14:46, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

How can you copyright a list of facts? Zoe 18:32, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * where there's a law firm, there's a way. Delete per nom. Dottore So 01:06, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
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