Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Activity centre


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure)  Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk)  04:19, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Activity centre

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Likely WP:OR, and it's essentially unsourced (as I shall explain). Apart from the obvious Melbourne focus, there are some inconsistencies in citation that make me think this may be copyvio or a copy of someone's thesis. For example, there are numerous inline " [3] " references in the text which don't link to anything. Those refs are then followed by a wikied ref, but none of the wikied refs appear in the reflist. Also in the reflist is a cut and paste biblio that is not used in the article. So I don't quite know what it is, so I'm not sure if it's speediable, but I do know it is not appropriate in its current form and cannot be used without blanking the page entirely, so we might as well delete the article. MSJapan (talk) 03:51, 13 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep: It's badly written, but it's still salvageable IMO. A quick Google search (which, BTW, User:MSJapan, you should have done yourself) reveals that the term is used primarily in Australia, but it is used rather extensively and therefore is probably the official term for a certain type of project in Australia.  I would note that being a terminology primarily confined to a single country is not in and of itself a reason for deletion.   p  b  p  04:51, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Of course I did a Google search. How else do you think I figured out I couldn't source the material in the article?  Anyhow, I don't deny "Activity centre" is a topic, and I did not say that it was not.  As I said, my problem is with the article content.  I was unable to source any statement made in the article, and I maintain the formatting indicates copyvio or OR.  Speaking of, the copyvio tag you put on it is wrong - Liquisearch is a WP fork, not the other way around, and the source link is at the bottom of the page.  TL;DR is that the article as it stands is not usable, and rewriting what's there isn't going to fix the lack of citable statements. MSJapan (talk) 05:25, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
 * If your problem is the content in the article, AfD is not where you should be. p  b  p  05:41, 13 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Comment - I did a copyvio search and found that the lead is duplicated at hubpages.com (I can't include the exact link here due to WP:BLACKLIST). I beleive it is more likely that this site copied our text than vise-versa. ~Kvng (talk) 14:40, 16 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep - Notability established by scholarly sources:, , , . The other problems cited by the nom can be fixed through article improvement and do not require deletion. ~Kvng (talk) 14:40, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. NewYorkActuary (talk) 02:27, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
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 * Keep. There's enough sources here to establish notability within the urban planning community (esp. Australia). Clearly enough to negate the WP:OR argument. Needs some cleanup. Cleanup & Keep. ERK  talk 22:47, 21 June 2016 (UTC)


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